Matt Piper offers brutally honest take on Leicester City squad after narrow Chelsea defeat

Leicester City’s Premier League survival bid took another hit on Sunday as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s lost 1-0 away to Chelsea.

Marc Cucurella’s second-half strike was all that was needed for Enzo Maresca to get one over on his former side, with Leicester now six points off from safety after suffering their 12th Premier League loss in their last 13 games.

Although Mads Hermansen won praise for his penalty save on Cole Palmer, the attacking performance was one to forget for Leicester, who again showed no real spark in the final-third despite having moments to cause Chelsea some real damage.

And former winger Matt Piper has now shared his brutally honest verdict on the current state of the Leicester squad heading into the final ten games of the season.

Leicester ‘lack that bit of quality’ to win points in the Premier League

Speaking on the When You’re Smiling podcast, the pundit noted how Leicester simply don’t have the quality in the squad to turn losses into draws or draws into wins, with Van Nistelrooy yet to find the magic formula to get the Foxes’ scoring goals again.

Piper said on the result in west London: “They should have got something from the game, but when they get into threatening areas they fall down again. It feels like a broken record. The counterattacks were good but the final decision-making by whoever was stood over the ball at the time did lack.

“We could have really taken something from this game because Chelsea were poor. They will be disappointed, but they can be proud of their efforts. Although Chelsea weren’t brilliant, they’re still competing for Champions League football,l so what we came and did was impressive.

“It is just a shame that we couldn’t get the goal. I have said it all season but I look at this team and they just lack that bit of quality. They can play well, and I tip my hat to them when they do, but they lack the ability at this level to claw back defeats to draws.”

What else has been said about Leicester’s loss at Chelsea?

With ten games left to go and Leicester sitting six points off safety, there’s a real sense that a return to the Championship is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ heading into the final two months of the Premier League season.

And with Gary Lineker saying he’s lost all hope of Leicester surviving in the English top-flight after this weekend’s loss at Chelsea, it’s safe to say that many, if not all, supporters have accepted the club’s fate this season.

Indeed, Leicester’s return to the Premier League has been nothing short of a disaster, and the Foxes will need to set out a new long-term plan this summer that can put the club on a path back to the top in the years to come.

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