Jordan Blackwell’s Leicester City player ratings v QPR as third straight loss ramps up pressure
How we scored the Leicester City players as they fell to a third Championship defeat in a row, with Enzo Maresca’s men unable to find an equaliser at home to QPR
Leicester City’s lead at the top of the Championship table was cut to just three points after they fell to a third straight Championship defeat.
City produced a limp display on home turf to fall short against QPR, the relegation battlers scoring with their only two shots on target from Ilias Chair and Sinclair Armstrong. But while Ben Nelson’s first goal for the club gave hope of a City comeback, they failed to muster any big chances for an equaliser.
With Ipswich victorious at Plymouth, City’s lead at the top has been cut to three points and the pressure is rising as they look to keep hold of the position they’ve sat in since late September. Their cushion inside the automatic promotion places is down to just five too.
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There were two changes from the Leeds game, and both were enforced. Ben Nelson was selected to come in for the suspended Jannik Vestergaard, while Dennis Praet replaced the injured Ricardo Pereira, albeit the Belgian himself hobbled off just 15 minutes in, with Yunus Akgun taking over.
City, knowing they could go at least eight points clear of third after Leeds drew to Huddersfield in the early kick-off, made a bright enough start. Patson Daka, retained up front, drew a parry from Asmir Begovic with a deflected shot five minutes in.
But bar a Harry Winks long-range effort past the post, and a low Yunus ball that nearly found Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall for a tap-in, there wasn’t much threat to City’s domination of the ball. It was a little flat.
