James Maddison claims Leicester knew exactly where to hit Chelsea and it appears the game-plan worked in the Foxes’ favor.
James Maddison says Leicester knew they could exploit Chelsea’s fragility from set pieces following their 2-0 win over the Blues.
The Foxes’ opening goal came from a corner-kick move that found Ndidi free at the edge of the box to fire home past Edouard Mendy.
Maddison scored Leicester’s second of the game and took his tally for the season to a decent seven goals.
On the path of Chelsea, the result leaves them in eighth place and pressure continues to mount on under-fire Frank Lampard.
Speaking after the game, Maddison claims Leicester did their homework on Chelsea and knew just how to hit them where it mattered.
“We worked on it” Maddison told Sky Sports regarding the opening goal.
“We looked at Chelsea with little short corners and being creative.”
“We [saw] they switch off sometimes from set pieces and we knew that was something we could pick on.”
“We haven’t scored enough goals from set pieces. I’m pulling my hair out sometimes as the corner taker! You look at the stats that come up, it says ‘goals scored from set pieces, Leicester City bottom of the table’, so it’s really nice to see one come off. A bit of a relief, actually!”
The victory sent Leicester City top of the league temporarily and Maddison says he is happy to enjoy the moment.
“Sounds nice to say we’re top of the league – probably for about 24 hours but it’s a good one psychologically because we’ve worked really hard” he added.
“It’s a great achievement for us and I don’t think you’ll see a better team performance from us this season. It had a bit of everything, a bit of tactical nous, I thought we were brilliant today.
Maddison also heaped praise on manager Brendan Rodgers for tweaking the game in favor of his side.
“Credit to the manager as well – we switched to a 4-4-2 out of possession at half-time and just little things like that helped and we deserved the three points”
“You don’t play for Brendan Rodgers if you don’t do dirty work – he always reiterates that it is a running game and you can’t have passengers or carry anyone in this league. If we want to stay up there for the rest of the season there might be teams that can spend more money than us but that team spirit will keep building to try and keep us up there.”
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