Leicester news: Van Nistelrooy unable to bring goals to Foxes

Yet again, we find ourselves talking about activities off the pitch and this week it came in the form of an organised fan protest.

‘Project Reset’ is a fan movement demanding change within the Leicester City leadership team and some took to the streets prior to Saturday’s match against Arsenal to let their voices be heard.

The rumblings during the week obviously reached the Leicester board as owner, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, released his matchday programme notes a day early – acknowledging that improvement is needed, calling on fans to get behind the team and outlining that the lack of activity during the January transfer window was hampered by Leicester’s PSR predicament.

Finally, some communication! A starter for 10? Who knows.

Sadly, the performance on the pitch, while resilient and competitive in periods, had an all too familiar ending for Leicester – zero goals scored and two late goals conceded.

Playing defensively can be useful when you are up against it, but there has to come a point – especially when you find yourselves 19th in the table with 55 goals conceded – where you have to accept that goals are going to be conceded in every game and attention has to be turned to creating some of our own to try to counteract our terrible defensive record.

Our goal threat has depleted since Ruud van Nistelrooy’s appointment and while one can see some cohesion and style of play under him, the aim of any match is to score more than the opposition and the hard facts are that we are not creating or threatening enough.

We have not scored at home since early December and have only scored four goals in the league since then. The old adage of “attack is the best form of defence” could not be more apt right now and in this apparent mini-league of four teams in the relegation scrap, I think we need to place more focus on scoring goals.

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