Cambridge United 0 City 1
I’m not sure what to say about this game – I just hope Martin Allen learnt something because I’m not sure I did! My initial reaction was ‘Was your journey really necessary’ and for a while it seemed that the most exciting thing was the health and safety warning before the game began about the danger from flying balls while the players were warming up!
Apparently 240 City fans made the journey (not all of us from Leicester itself) and when I arrived at 6.45 the gates weren’t even open.
The game was, frankly, boring, with two poor teams, although City stepped up the pace a bit in the second half and, of course, got the goal. I can’t see any of the players on view featuring in Martin’s plans for Saturday, with the exception perhaps of Levi Porter who was his usual live wire when he came on for the second half.
I see that Darren Kenton was singled out for particular praise and he certainly seemed comfortable. However, matters were not helped by the programme not telling us the team and no announcements when subs were made (but fortunately the web site provides the information on the subs!)…..
There were a lot of youngsters and some of them looked promising, but would be out of their depth playing for the first team at the moment. I would single out Sheehan and McKay (who came on for Sappleton in the 60th minute).
Fryatt got the goal, of course, and missed some other chances but I feel he has a lot of work to do to prove that he deserves a place in the first team; perhaps he would do better with more support.
City: Logan; Maybury, Kenton, Kisnorbo, Sheehan, King, Hughes, Hellings, Fryatt, Odhiambo, Sappleton.
Subs: Porter (King 46), Pentney, McKay (Sappleton 60), Rowe-Turner (Sheehan 72), Magunda (Kenton 77), Beswick (Odhiambo 81).
Cambridge: Potter; Morrison, Hoyte, Albrighton, Gleeson, Quinton, Brown, Wolleaston, Pitt, Chillingworth, Fortune-West.
Subs: Rendell (Chillingworth 19), Collins (Wolleaston 57), Convery (Hoyte 57), Peters (Fortune-West 57), Smith (Quinton 65), Hyem (Brown 75), Coulson (Gleeson 84), Reed (Albrighton 88).
Referee: G Horwood. Attendance: 1,523.
The views expressed in this report are the opinions of the Trust member nominated to file the report only and do not represent the views of the Foxes Trust organisation