Leicester City are out of the FA Cup after a poor performance against Huddersfield Town this evening. The visitors ran out 2-1 winners and progress to face Wigan Athletic in the 5th Round on Sunday afternoon. Pearson made 4 changes from the team that lost at Peterborough on Saturday. Gallagher, Wellens, James and Futacs came into the starting eleven, replacing Marshall, Drinkwater, King and Vardy.
It was a bad start from the Foxes. Huddersfield took the lead in the 5th minute, after Adam Clayton fired an excellent free-kick past Schmeichel. City did equalise just 2 minutes later, Keane poking the ball home after a scramble in the penalty area. In the second half, Leicester surrendered the initiative. Passes were misplaced, first touches were poor and the tempo was lacking. Scannell's winner, 15 minutes from time, summed up the evening for the Foxes. Keane and Konchesky both missed opportunities to tackle the Hudderfield man and should have prevented the goal. The winger cut in from the touchline, shrugged off both defenders and slotted the ball between Schmeichel's legs. It was a disappointing goal to concede and capped off a very lacklustre performance.
Fans will inevitably point at Wood's continued absence to explain the dip in form and the back to back defeats. Vardy and Waghorn missed good chances on Saturday and Futacs missed a golden chance this evening when the score was 1-1. Pearson has stated that he expects Wood to be available for the next league game, on Tuesday night against Charlton. Leicester fans will certainly have their fingers crossed that the Kiwi striker is back as soon as possible. Hull's win tonight has pushed Leicester out of the automatic promotion places. Without a fit Chris Wood, Leicester will struggle to find the goals needed to fire them back into second place.
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