Burton came into the game off the back of a home defeat against the 'Cod Army' of Fleetwood town, new boys of course to this level of football who were interestingly linked to Joey Barton in the summer. Leicester too had defeat to take in losing away at Steve Kean's Blackburn Rovers on saturday.
Bumping into a few old faces around the ground, as is customary when there's only 8,500 fans there (500 in the away end) we took our seat's and the action began. Leicester began brightly with slick passing and decent movement and soon lay siege on the Burton goal, efforts from Jeff Schlupp and Paul Gallagher were superbly saved by Ross Atkins. Atkins has had much criticism since moving to Burton on loan from Derby last season but the foxes' found him in fine form as the tactic had seemingly been to ply his gloves with superglue.
After Richie De Laet hit a post from a corner just about every Leicester player bar Schmeichel had tested Atkins but found no way through so for a change Albion went up the other end and won themselves a free kick. Chris Palmer went low, found a deflection which found the net, #unbelievablescenes as the Burton players have been saying on twitter as the net rippled and the yellow corner went bonkers, it couldn't happen could it?
Half time arrived and so did the grumblings from the stands as Leicester's performance was dissected into section's 'Shit' 'Crap' and 'Downright bollocks'. It appeared Nigel Pearson's word's of wisdom had fallen on deaf ears as a long ball found Cleveland Taylor who swivelled and smashed a sweet volley past Schmeichel to send Brewer's fan's into dreamland.
Leicester clearly disheartened struggling to pull themselves together to mount an attack eventually found a free kick opportunity which new signing Knockeart dispatched cooly into the top corner, hope yet for the home sides and squeaky bum's began appearing in the yellow and black section. This did little to put Burton off venturing into the Leicester half and after a goalmouth scramble the referee inexplicably awarded Burton a penalty amidst bemused faces from the away side and red-faced fury from those in blue.
Robbie Weir stepped up against Kasper Schmeichel after putting a penalty away against him in pre-season. Weir struck it high and away from the reach of the Dane to make the game all but safe for Burton amongst scenes of delirium in the away end, what a night. The cake still needed the icing though and midfielder Jacques Maghoma saw to that picking up the ball 30 yards out and hitting a high swerving shot to floor Schmeichael and burst the net, 4-1 and surely game over.
Many of Leicester's fans were halfway home by the time new signing Marco Futacs placed a sublime lob over the diminutive Atkin's to bring a touch of pride back for Leicester but this was Burton's night. A proud 500 in the corner were loud and proud throughout the evening and with an epic performance from Gary Rowett's cup specialist's it certainly was £12 well spend.
A fair and frank account of a terrible night (as a City fan!). Burton took their chances superbly and fully deserved to beat the Foxes.
ReplyDeleteWell written, too, but as a bit of constructive criticism can I suggest you revise apostrophes?