Leicester City sack manager Cooper after 12 league games
Leicester City sack manager Steve Cooper with the club 16th in the Premier League after 12 games.
Image source, Getty ImagesCrystal Palace have won nine Premier League meetings with Leicester City - more victories than they have managed over any other team in the competition.
Meanwhile, the Foxes have won just two of their past 16 Premier League games in London (D3 L11), conceding 40 goals during that run.
Image source, Getty ImagesLeicester are "better equipped to stay in the Premier League" than last year's team and the dressing-room atmosphere after the international break will be "lifted beyond belief" by the club's PSR appeal success, says ex-Foxes defender Liam Moore.
Speaking on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast, Moore said: "This team will have an identity fairly soon and I think it will look very close to the team who were in the Premier League a few years back.
"The second half of the Tottenham game reminded me of a previous Leicester team. It was a different style of football where fans wanted that extra push.
"I believe Steve Cooper will be passing on the message: 'Limit the mistakes and punish at the other end.'
"The season really starts for the lads when they're back in Premier League action."
Chris Forryan
Fan writer
When is three points for a win, not three points for a win? When it is six.
That is the number of points that Leicester could have - allegedly - been docked if the Premier League had got its way over the Profit and Sustainability case against us. But in getting their first win of the season, albeit off the pitch, the Foxes have avoided a points deduction following a similar case win against the English Football League last season.
A lot of other clubs and their fans have been whining that we got off through a loophole, but a lawyer discussing Leicester’s PSR case stated there is no such thing as a loophole, just badly written rules or laws. Those clubs that are moaning the most seem to be those who fear being in a relegation scrap with us. If the safety of their club is reliant on us getting docked points then I don’t hold out much hope for their survival.
Also, didn’t both Everton and Nottingham Forest appeal their charges? Don’t we all try to appeal things, parking tickets, speeding tickets and more. Maybe if these clubs spent as much on a good lawyer as they did on having a squad the size of a small village they might have suffered less too.
The messy scenario justifies the views of fans who wonder what those at the Premier League are doing.
But now it’s over to Steve Cooper and his on field plans. This is a weight lifted off the squads' shoulders, now he has to get his side of the deal right. Two good second half displays against Tottenham and Aston Villa show promise, but 90 minutes against Fulham showed the opposite.
As always with City, it’s going to be a long season.
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Image source, Getty ImagesLeicester City took one point from their opening three Premier League games, but former Foxes defender Liam Moore believes it is "far too early" to be concerned about their performances under new manager Steve Cooper.
Speaking on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast, Moore said: "It is far too early for me. I think this international break has come at a good time. It allows all of the troops to get together and spend time either on the training pitch or on international duty.
"I believe that after this international break finishes, Leicester's season really starts. There will be hope to pick up a few points in the next block of four games.
"Six points or over would be an outstanding return from their next four fixtures. If you get four points from those four games, I think you have got to be pretty happy.
"I think you have got to play with the mindset that those points can come from anywhere. I'm all for setting goals, but I think it's a bit of a waste of time to map out where you are going to get points or struggle - that sets a mindset and a culture.
"It is good to set goals, ideally I think the manager should sit the boys down, say we want six points before the next international break and tell them to go out and do it."
Moore added: "I think everybody understands the situation the club has been in over the summer, where we are at and how we are building.
"At the minute, there is a lot to build on. It is not all doom and gloom."
