Millwall had the temerity to take the lead at the King Power Stadium but they were swept away by Leicester’s second-half goal flurry
Millwall head coach Joe Edwards admits his team was ‘brutally punished’ by Leicester City on Wednesday night.
The Lions went 1-0 up only to be swept aside by two goals in four second half minutes, from Jannik Vestergaard and Patson Daka to give the hosts a lead they would never lose. Ricardo Pereira made it 3-1 with 12 minutes to go meaning Kevin Nisbet’s strike was little more than a consolation.
Reflecting on the 3-2 reverse, a result that saw the Foxes return to the top of the table and the visitors slip to just two places and one point above the relegation zone, Edwards was pleased with many aspects of his team’s performance.
But he felt a difference in quality was the main feature. “You could see very early on in the game they were having a lot of the ball without really hurting us,” he said. “And then you get exactly what you want when you have that game plan – that one moment where the players really showed some quality to get one-nil ahead.
“It feels like we had a massive opportunity and we continued to frustrate. You felt the stadium when we went in at half-time and you felt that in our dressing room that there was a lot of confidence and belief.
“We came out in a similar manner in terms of how we defended collectively but then there were just some moments in and around our own box where a combination of their quality and us having some lapses in concentration… that’s what they can do, they can take the game away from you.
“It shook us. The game looked over in and around 70 minutes but then all of a sudden we get that little wave of belief again and before you know it we start putting passes together. We get our goal and all of sudden in the final few minutes it’s game on from a game that looked done and dusted.
“So we need to take the positives from the good things we came here and did but ultimately I think their players showed how difficult it is to come here with how brutally they can punish you.”
Only Ipswich have scored more than Leicester’s 41 league goals – and no-one can come close to their goal difference of plus-27, a return that has them 11 points clear in the automatic promotion spots.
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