Roy Keane has labelled Brendan Rodgers ' Leicester side as 'disgraceful' after they whimpered to a 5-2 loss at the hands of Brighton on Sunday - with the result edging the former Celtic boss closer to the sack.
Despite leading in the first minute, the Foxes were not at the races at all throughout the afternoon with Brighton dominating possession, limiting them to almost nothing. Scoring twice flattered the away side, and the Seagulls should have had at least six goals; which would have been a formality but for a farcical VAR call which saw Fife-rooted Alexis Mac Allister robbed of one of the goals of the season.
Just six shots to Brighton's 23 summed up the gulf in class between the pair, leaving a beleaguered Rodgers looking glum on the touchline - with shouts from the Foxes' fanbase to relieve him from his services exponentially increasing. It is a far cry from their previous endeavours where Rodgers won them the FA Cup just 15 months ago, with European football becoming commonplace at the King Power Stadium in recent years.
The sale of Wesley Fofana, Caglar Soyuncu's absence from the first-team due to poor training efforts and Wilfried Ndidi filling in at centre-back set the tone for pure defensive calamity on the south coast, leading many to question Rodgers' integrity for setting his side up to fail. And Roy Keane has slammed the former Celts gaffer for not being able to invigorate his side with any motivation - leaving them bottom of the league with one solitary draw and five losses from six games.
" Leicester players, that was a disgraceful performance in the second half: they gave up the fight, gave some bad goals away, no commitment, no desire," Keane told Sky Sports.
"Brendan's in trouble with that performance in the second half. The Leicester players nowhere near good enough, gave up the fight. Shocking."
A collapse suffered at Liverpool which allowed Jurgen Klopp to take the reigns didn't occur at Celtic Park, where he was lauded for his efforts at vastly improving the Hoops' fortunes and general fear factor in his near three-year spell in east Glasgow. This current version, it must be said, is not a typical Brendan Rodgers side; Leicester look scared to go forward, bereft of confidence on the ball, and as Keane alluded to, uncommitted and frankly unbothered by their ongoing slump.
Said 'slump' has been ongoing for months now; a lack of investment has not helped Rodgers whatsoever and the loss of his main defensive asset at such a crucial time in the window was suicidal. You would be inclined to think that this marks the beginning of the end for the Northern Irishman.
