'Leicester showed effort - they just lacked the quality'published at 08:59 GMT 25 November 2024

Former Leicester winger Matt Piper says there was no lack of effort in Saturday's defeat to Chelsea but the Foxes "just lacked the quality" to really trouble the Blues.
"I don't think Chelsea were cruising towards victory," he told the When You're Smiling podcast. "I thought there was some fight there, there was some effort. There was two or three players who played really well.
"I think Boubakary Soumare was good, worked hard and was on it. A lot of the things we did well he was involved in. Bilal El Khannouss the same. In the first-half, especially from an attacking standpoint, he was Leicester's best player.
"Then, I'm always torn with Victor Kristiansen because I look at him and I don't think he's a full-back at this level but he's always giving it his all. He had a tough task against [Noni] Madueke but he played him quite well. He's going to struggle in possession, he's not the most accomplished on the ball, but I take my hat off to him.
"Those three especially were good and I think there were a couple of good performances but we do just lack that little bit of quality whether it be in our own penalty area or the opposition's.
"Unless you're creating wonderful opportunities and the type of chances Jamie Vardy likes to feed off, and you're starving him because we can't get the ball, you're thinking 'where are the goals coming from?'
"That, to me, is the overriding feeling from the game. I'll never get after the side or the manager after a performance like that and slaughter the team like I did after the Manchester United loss. They showed effort, they just lacked the quality and couldn't really get close enough to lay a glove on Chelsea."