James Maddison is a great football player.
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After 19 days of the Premier League, the Leicester team have shown that they are more than just a thrill and are even posing as a candidate for the podium, if not for the title, this season in England.
The victory against Chelsea only confirmed that on Tuesday night, both from a game point of view and from an accounting point of view (the Foxes are leaders with 38 points ahead of United, 37, and City, 35).
Brendan Rodgers' men have outclassed a Blues team that huge spending in the summer transfer window has yet to turn into a real well-oiled collective machine.
The rookies (Silva, Havertz, Ziyech) have remained very discreet, while the same perennial flaws - a crumbly defense on the outside and an attack that lacks binding - persist.
Against the champions of England 2016, they gave again quickly, with a corner skillfully played by Leicester and which arrived, with a little success, in the feet of Wilfred Ndidi.
The strike from the outside of 20 meters from the midfielder hit the right post of Edouard Mendy, nailed on his supports, before returning (1-0, 6th).
Maddison,
road to the Euro
After seeing James Maddison touch the crossbar of another attempt at the entrance to the area (16th), Leicester widened the gap on a defensive error of Antonio Rüdiger, aligned alongside Thiago Silva in the axis .
Obsessed with his marking on Jamie Vardy - which never feels good to take his eyes off, it is true - rather than Marc Albrighton's bell-shaped ball, when he was well placed to clear the ball, he left Maddison slip behind his back and toast the politeness to Reece James to deceive Mendy up close (2-0, 44 ').
With this new setback and a pitiful eighth place in the standings, Frank Lampard is more than ever on an ejection seat on the side of his club always.
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