No one can blame Ben Dawson for attempting to try something different in his first and only game in charge of Leicester. The interim manager named a very different side at Brentford, in shape and personnel, as the incoming Ruud van Nistelrooy watched from the stands. Unfortunately for him, Kevin Schade’s incredible hat-trick at the Gtech not only inflicted more misery on the visitors, who remain one point above the relegation zone, but provedtheir problems will require more than a simple formation change.
Brentford almost scored within five minutes after Schade’s looping header was palmed on to the roof of the net by a leaping Mads Hermansen. Leicester were pinned back but Dawson’s decision to name a back three left the box overcrowded and Bryan Mbeumo’s seven crosses in the first half were all met with a blue shirt.
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