Jamie Vardy’s ‘brilliant moment’ leaves Ruud van Nistelrooy pondering what he’d have done

Jamie Vardy’s ‘brilliant moment’ leaves Ruud van Nistelrooy pondering what he’d have done

The manager of Leicester City considers his team’s 2-2 draw with Brighton, especially the equaliser that Bobby De Cordova-Reid scored in extra time after Jamie Vardy set it up.

Although the manager isn’t convinced he would have displayed the same generosity, Ruud van Nistelrooy praised Jamie Vardy’s genius for setting up Leicester City’s last-minute equaliser against Brighton.

Vardy assisted Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s equaliser in injury time after giving City a lifeline with a goal in the 86th minute. Vardy could have scored a goal while staring down Brighton keeper Bart Verbruggen, but instead he displayed awareness to set up the tap-in.

Van Nistelrooy, a vicious goal scorer in his day, was unsure if he would have chosen Vardy’s course of action. To put the number nine in those risky positions, however, is another testament to the calibre of the City captain and the team’s play.

“It was an amazing moment,” van Nistelrooy remarked. “It’s very excellent when you have the poise and composure to make these decisions so late in the game, in the 91st minute, and we’re glad to have that in our team.

“You must score if you fail to pass. He ensured that we would receive that equaliser. He believed we deserved that, I believe. What if I had passed it? I’ll have to go back and review the objective.

However, he was in a position because of the team’s overall performance. We won the duel, played forward from there, and went for the goal off the turnover, if I were to relive the second goal, where we were pressing high. That’s where Jamie ended up with the ball.

That pleased me. The entire scene was enjoyable to me. We want to place guys who can make a difference for us there, which is why we put him in that position as a team.

“After the West Ham game, we were realistic,” he stated. Although we scored three goals with great effectiveness, we allowed West Ham far too many goals. We admitted it. In that regard, today’s performance was far superior to Tuesday’s.

“We exerted a lot of pressure on Brighton, one of the top football teams in this league, and controlled the game.” To the team, that is a compliment.

“We scored two more goals and didn’t allow up many chances. Even though we performed better than we did on Tuesday, we only received one point today. Still, isn’t it a pointless game?

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