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KEY MEN FLOP AS LETHARGIC LEICESTER GO DOWN TO HULL IN PREMIER LEAGUE OPENER


The bubble has been burst. Leicester City were have been brought crashing back down to earth. The Foxes first Premier League game as reigning champions seemed a relatively easy one. Taking on newly-promoted Hull City, widely tipped as the side most likely to finish bottom this term, Claudio Ranieri’s men lined up with last season’s stars Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy intact, while new signing Ahmed Musa started.

However, it was manaKEY MEN FLOP AS LETHARGIC LEICESTER GO DOWN TO HULL IN PREMIER LEAGUE OPENERger-less Hull, despite having made no signings this summer following their promotion from the Championship, who edged to victory in the first game of the season.

Not even a penalty incorrectly awarded to Leicester could save them.

N’Golo Kante may be the only key player Ranieri has seen depart the King Power Stadium after last season’s heroics, but his absence was much more obvious than the match-winning abilities of Mahrez and Vardy.

Leicester may have been more creative than their hosts, but they were nowhere near as tidy in possession as fans have come to expect, their build up was not as intelligent and direct – all aspects of their game they could rely on the now-Chelsea player to lay the foundations.





That, however, was not the only reason they left the KC Stadium without so much as a point. The side with a defensive record bettered by only two teams last season were rather terrible at the back.

Leicester failed to deal with a cross, as Kaser Schmeichel punched it into the path of Abel Hernandez, who sent it looping over him with a delightfully acrobatic kick.

Before that corner, Hull had failed to register a shot on target, while Christian Fuchs low shot just five minutes earlier had been Leicester’s only one, though Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez had both passed up big opportunities around that.

The champions were expected to bounce back when Mike Dean offered a penalty early in the second half, despite Demarai Gray being fouled outside the box.

While Mahrez coolly converted the penalty, Leicester’s good work was undone just 10 minutes afterwards when Schmeichel recklessly threw away possession and, with his defence caught out of positioning, the goalkeeper was caught out as it fell to an unmarked Robert Snodgrass, whose fine finish struck the back of the net.


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