Judging by my social media feed, Russell Martin’s popularity ratings at Leicester are close to absolute zero. Leicester’s stuttering start to life in League One continued with a 4-0 home defeat by Oxford. The Foxes, like their opponents relegated from the Championship last season, were looking to build on their first league win in midweek, but fell behind to an early goal from Mark Harris.
Oxford then put the game to bed with two goals in the space of three minutes either side of the hour from Mo Missanga and Harris before Jamie McDonnell’s late strike completed a chastening afternoon for Russell Martin’s side. Today, we look like a team that’s the opposite of what we have looked like. And today, for that 25-minute spell in the second half, is unacceptable “We had five kick-offs today and three of them ended up with a chance on our goal, which is crazy.
I think it shows the lack of experience we have on the pitch and decision-making at times. I made a couple of subs and took some experienced guys off to try and inject some energy in the game. We were naive and too soft.” Martin has won four of his last 30 league games as a manager, 24 scored 61 conceded.
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