Nigel Pearson was extremely unhappy with the way Leicester City were not awarded three clear-cut penalties in the recent 2-0 loss against Manchester City.
Bolton Wanderers have suffered a major injury blow after midfielder Mark Davies has been ruled out for up to 4 months with an injury to the knee.
The 26-year-old had just returned from spending around nine months on the sidelines because of a similar injury on his knee last year. Bolton have certainly not had the luck of the injuries. It appeared that Davies was finally putting behind his injury problems of recent years after making 11 appearances so far. He has scored one goal in these matches. Manager Neil Lennon admitted that it was a huge setback for the team.
Leicester City had an excellent start to the life in the Premier League after managing to beat the likes of Manchester United earlier in the campaign. Defender Paul Konchesky says that the club is loving life back in the English top-flight.
Kenny Jackett completed signing his 3rd player of this transfer window by acquiring the services of the 21 years old attacking midfielder from Chelsea, George Saville. Jackett had nothing but praise concerning his latest player which arrived to the Championship club for a fee of €1 million.
Jackett said: "It’s a permanent deal on a three year contract plus a year’s option. He’s a really good young player. He’s just turned 21 and has been brought through at Chelsea with a very good pedigree’’
Divock Origi, the youngster from LOSC Lille, has admitted that he’s been contacted by various clubs, but, he has clarified that no decision has been taken by him as yet.
Origi who is not even 20 at the moment has been impressive for the senior team of Lille in the last two years. He hasn’t had too many goals to show, but, he has been giving good support to the other players in the front line.
The youngster had also travelled to Brazil with his national side Belgium that made it to the Round of 8 in the World Cup.
Leicester City have been handed a tough start to the new Premier league season after the fixtures for this campaign were unveiled on Wednesday. Leicester City were promoted from the championship with a record points tally, but even then, they are expected to struggle in the first few months of the campaign. This is because of the Gulf in difference between the Championship and the Premier league. In order to cope with the difference in quality, Leicester would have been fortunate to avoid most of the top teams in the first five matches of the season.
Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has said that he will be placing a lot of faith on the team that has won the championship when the club take on top teams in the Premier league next season. Leicester managed to enter the championship season as the winners, while they also collected more than 100 points along the way. In the end, they almost finished 10 points above second placed Burnley. Despite this, there have been rumours that their manager is ready to complete a squad overhaul, which will see them sign several stars in the summer.
Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has revealed that he wants to keep most of the players who has helped the club get back to the Premier league next season.
Leiscester City travelled to Ewood Park as they went head to head with Blackburn Rovers and had to settle with a 1-1 draw which was played on March 22. The result sees Leiscester City still remaining at the top of the Football League Championship while Blackburn is in the middle of the standings.
After the match concluded, the manager of Leiscester City, Nigel Pearson had to be hospitalized. According to staff members of the club, he was suffering from sickness before the game and decided to get medical advice as a precautionary measure.
Paul Konchesky is positive that Leicester City would be targeting the Championship title apart from the automatic promotion which they are supposed to get by the end of the season.
Although the automatic promotion is the main thing which the club has in mind right now but he believes that the Championship title may not be far away if the team bucks up and plays well for the rest of the season. He is confident about the players who are there in the team right now and said that City would try their level best to go all the way and lift the Championship trophy.