The miserable season of Leicester City took another tour for the worst tonight while the men of Ruud Van Nistelrooy were humiliated at home by Brentford crawling.
Fans of Foxes spread out of the King Power Stadium long before half-time after looking at an abject defensive display on their side.
Brentford sculpted home defense at will, especially during a unilateral first half with Yoane Wissa, Bryan Mbeumo and Christian Norgaard all marking to effectively kill the match before the break.
The assistance Mikkel Damsgaard, when Yoane Wissa arrives! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/dcbwdlbs3p
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Leicester managed to stem the tide during the second period, although it is still time for the replacement Fabio Carvalho to add a fourth late while Brentford began his fourth successive fourth in the Premier League.
Flekken denies twice
There was no sign of the upcoming capitulation while Leicester came out of the traps and tested Brentford Mark Flekken’s goalkeeper twice in the first five minutes.
The Dutch plug died in Clear a Woyo Coulibaly shot before a stop even better to refuse Jamie Vardy after the Veteran striker of Leicester ran to Bilal El Khannouss through the ball before turning Ethan Pinnock upside down.
Brentford replied well and should have had a penalty after seven minutes when Coulibaly sparked Kevin Schade inside the area. Referee Tony Harrington moved away the demonstrations with Var bizarrely supporting his call.
Schade threatened again after 12 minutes, but Coulibaly did well to block his shot at the distant post.
Wissa opens the scoring
Brentford was starting to dominate and it was not a surprise when they took the lead after 17 minutes. The ball broke for Mikkel Damsgaard on the edge of the area and its scope pass chose Wissa, who reacted in front of the Leicester defenders to pull beyond Mads Hermansen.
Flekken again saved from Vardy before Brentford marked their second after 27 minutes – Mbeumo cutting inside the weak challenge of Victor Kristiansen and pulling a superb left foot in the furthest corner.
Bryan Mbeumo who is beautiful! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/duc2zpmyou
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Songs of “You are not able to wear the shirt” fans of Leicester resulted around the ground and anger increased shortly after half an hour when Norgaard Rose is not disputed to direct the kick of Mbeumo in the net.
The goals continue to come for Brentford! 🔥
Christian Norgaard connects with a free kick from Bryan Mbeumo 👊 pic.twitter.com/rbijjmydmw
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Leicester’s frustration threatened to boil with Coulibaly and the unfortunate Okoli Caleb to both reserved for imprudent challenges.
And that could have won for the interior team in the first period with Keane Lewis-Potter by seeing an effort excluded for handball after having wrapped the ball in the net following a beautiful block of Hermansen.
The second half of a non-event with the game won
Van Nistelrooy made two changes to the break, leaving Coulibaly and Bobby de Cordova-Reid, but that made little difference when Brentford sailed through the second half without ever having to get out of the second speed.
They still created the strange luck, and Hermansen, who, with Vardy, was the only Leicester player to emerge with a credit, produced a brilliant stop to deny Yehor Yarmoliuk after having ghostly on another trying crossroads.
He couldn’t do much to prevent Brentford from winning their victory with two minutes to do.
Hermansen saved the impressive Mbeumo, but Carvalho was on site to shoot in the empty net.
The defeat means that Leicester has now lost its last six first league games at home without scoring a single goal.
