Leicester 0-0 Crystal Palace: Goalless draw keeps pressure on beleaguered Brendan Rodgers

Leicester enactment successful the Premier League relegation portion aft the shutout

Leicester City were incapable to easiness the unit connected manager Brendan Rodgers arsenic they were held to a frustrating goalless gully by Crystal Palace astatine King Power Stadium.

It felt similar a time erstwhile the archetypal extremity would beryllium important and Leicester's nerves were evident from the commencement arsenic Palace exerted aboriginal pressure.

But the location broadside sprung into beingness erstwhile Harvey Barnes and Patson Daka combined to unlock the Palace defence, earlier Daka forced Vicente Guaita into a astute save.

Palace lacked zip successful onslaught arsenic the archetypal fractional developed, but showed a spark done Eberechi Eze, who flashed a changeable implicit from the borderline of the container with the interruption looming.

In the 2nd half, it was telling that James Maddison was seeing much of the ball, but helium doubly missed the people earlier the hour, shooting implicit from adjacent scope and past wide aft driving forward.

As clip ticked on, precise small changed. Neither broadside were capable to unit the issue, contempt the instauration of Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho. This crippled was determination for the taking for Leicester, but their assurance eluded them.

Lack of punch costs Foxes

The stop-start quality of the crippled spoke volumes for some sides successful antithetic ways.

Palace were looking to frustrate archetypal and bash their harm connected the antagonistic onslaught done Wilfried Zaha's pace; they weren't overly successful, but it pointed to deeper issues for Leicester.

Nervous vigor was each astir the stadium and, fixed that the Foxes had mislaid 7 retired of their erstwhile 9 league games, that was understandable.

But it meant Leicester lone attacked successful spurts, with flashes from Barnes, Daka and Maddison, but ne'er truly capable to physique momentum and triumph the game. Wout Faes, their lone large summertime signing, was their standout subordinate astatine the back.

This was different agelong day successful what is becoming a agelong play for Rodgers' side, summed up by the talismanic Maddison picking up a booking for simulation that volition support him retired of Thursday's lucifer with Leeds.

Zaha connected the periphery for Palace

Being substituted wrong the past 15 minutes with the crippled inactive connected a knife-edge epitomised Zaha's day.

There were moments for the visitors, with Eze peculiarly engaged successful midfield, but they couldn't find the slayer walk to marque the quality erstwhile they had the chance.

Zaha chopped a frustrated fig connected an day he'll person travel into hoping to person a decisive impact.

This is Palace's 2nd successive goalless gully connected the road, and they didn't bash capable to summation each 3 points again.

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