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Leicester fans make their feelings clear after ‘gutless performance’ against Wrexham

Leicester fans make their feelings clear after ‘another gutless performance’, snatching a lucky late point against Wrexham.

Lewis O’Brien put Wrexham ahead just after the hour mark as Jakub Stolarczyk failed to hold a cross, and that looked on course to be the winner.

But Jannik Vestergaard got on the end of a Caleb Okoli to net in the 90th minute, with the result leaving Wrexham, who were up to 7th in the Championship table until that late equaliser, now 9th with 41 point from 28 games played, while Leicester are 14th with 38 points also from 28 games.

Leicester boss Marti Cifuentes, per BBC Sport:

“It’s a game of two halves. The conditions on the pitch and in the stadium influenced the development of the game.

“First half were able to play quite high up the pitch, we had a couple of good chances that we should have taken.

“Then we knew because of the conditions it could change the game a lot in the second half because we know that Wrexham have a good dynamic, they have quite a direct style so we knew in the windy conditions they would try to put pressure.”

Cifuentes, per Sky Sports:

“The second half was not a good one.

“Obviously when they took the lead emotionally that affected us a lot, a lot of frustration, a lot of situations that were difficult to understand but at the same time credit the players, they fought to the end and it’s a point.

“I think that doesn’t change the fact we’re disappointed. Always we want three points, We don’t care if we’re away, if we’re playing a team that’s doing well.

“Always we want three points. One point is better than zero but it’s not what we wanted.

“We have do do much better.

“Actually you could see the emotions after the goal and in the last three or four minutes we were perhaps the more aggressive to try to get a second goal.”

Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson, per BBC Sport:

“Really tough conditions to play in, I thought we managed the game brilliantly in the first half.

“The second half, it was exactly what we anticipated. Lewis [O’Brien] and Ollie [Rathbone] set the press for us, against a team we knew would look to build a lot from the back.

“I thought the game went how we envisaged it would go, we were really comfortable in the game.

“You take the moment at the end out of it, I’d be saying it was a really gritty, hard-working performance and a great response from the weekend, but the gloss is taken off it because we haven’t dealt with a ball into the box.”

Parkinson, per Sky Sports

“Another hour down the line I’ll probably be looking at more of the positives, but when you concede so late in a nothing moment, of course it hurts.”

“If you take away the moment at the end, which of course we’ll discuss, I’d be saying to everybody that was a really gritty, hard-working performance and a great response from the weekend.

“But obviously the gloss is taken off it because we haven’t dealt with one ball into the box which is held up in the wind, it’s kind of swirled.

“If we head that out, we’ve won the game. They react quicker, it’s almost a slow-motion moment.

“So we’re frustrated because apart from one counter-attacking moment in the second half we weren’t troubled the whole night.”

Twitter users reacted as Leicester fans make their feelings clear after a ‘gutless performance’ against Wrexham…

@jayjay_allen: Again, the lack of emotion, celebration, anything, from anyone on or off the pitch when the goal went in SHOULD be all you need to know about where this club is at/heading. And that’s not a new feeling #lcfc

@Stivesfox: It defies belief @MCC14 how you ever got this job, that performance was shocking, if your post match interview suggest we need tolearn and get on training ground! I am sorry you have been the worst @LCFC manager and big jannick saved your arse! I think you should go!! #lcfc

@mnorman1985: Funny thing is, I know, you know, and every #lcfc fan knows, the exact same style of football & the exact same level of performance is going to happen on Saturday against Oxford.

@Gib11: Let’s be honest, Marti needs to go. A few moments of indivdual quality have saved him until now. But the statistics show that we’re one of the worst performing teams in the league. That’s down to the manager. #LCFC #martiout

@Steve_TheFox: Get this fucking manager gone. Along with the chairman, the board and 90% of the players. Absolutely gutless #LCFC

@Ashleypp1986: Marti Cifuentes blaming the weather for us being shocking is a fucking insult to every fan that travelled to Wrexham and sat through that shit show! Unbelievable! #LCFC

@tomatosauce8888: Fortunate to get anything from that game. A soulless, lifeless performance. Such poor patterns of play with little progressive passes to hurt Wrexham. There’s no tempo to the side. Marti doesn’t do anything to impact the game. Should be sacked but he won’t.

@sparky__26:
Is there anything positive about @LCFC at the minute? Anything at all?
Absent owner
Players on 90k a week allowed to be awol
No incoming players
Poor manager
Canā€™t keep a clean sheet
Strikers canā€™t score
Psr issues that are never ending
Mis table championship fodder
#LCFC

@lcfc_luk3: GUTLESS PERFORMANCE! A point that again papers over the cracksā€¦ MARTI HAS TO GO! His in game management and Substitutions are disgraceful… The players just donā€™t seem bothered. Their Overpaid and just simply shit! #lcfc šŸ¦ŠšŸ”µ

@RFox55_: No urgency, no passion and extremely lazy performance once again. The board have allowed this mess to continue and manifest, itā€™s not Martiā€™s fault anymore as he should have been dismissed back in November. Iā€™ll be boycotting Oxford on Saturday. Canā€™t support this anymore.

@IainW198:
Older ##lcfc, I need dates as to when we’ve been worse than this?
– 80yrs since a run like this without a clean sheet
– 2 Strikers that wouldn’t score 10 in League 1
– Players going through the motions
– Owner AWOL
– Deduction incoming
Astonishing decline

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