Schade bulldozes Leicester as Brentford show Van Nistelrooy scale of salvage job
No one can blame Ben Dawson for attempting to try something different in his first and only game in charge of Leicester. The interim manager named a very different side at Brentford, in shape and personnel, as the incoming Ruud van Nistelrooy watched from the stands. Unfortunately for him, Kevin Schade’s incredible hat-trick at the Gtech not only inflicted more misery on the visitors, who remain one point above the relegation zone, but provedtheir problems will require more than a simple formation change.
Brentford almost scored within five minutes after Schade’s looping header was palmed on to the roof of the net by a leaping Mads Hermansen. Leicester were pinned back but Dawson’s decision to name a back three left the box overcrowded and Bryan Mbeumo’s seven crosses in the first half were all met with a blue shirt.
