Leicester Fan View: A night to forget as Leicester City find themselves well and truly beaten

There haven’t been many beatings this heavy at the King Power, but it doesn’t soften the blow. Not even when it’s at the hands of a dominant and impressive Tottenham side in a game that ultimately didn’t matter.

You could say it’s revenge at last for Spurs, but that shouldn’t devalue their fast paced, fluid football. The frustration isn’t losing to a good team or even the loss itself, it’s the nature and score line. Neither of which were good enough, by a long stretch.

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Yes, the Foxes would have ideally liked to have won both remaining home games in a push to try and bag the eighth spot in the Premier League, but with safety assured and key personnel missing, it was always going to be tough to stop a free scoring Tottenham.

Kasper Schmeichel spent the majority of the match looking infuriated with his back line. Without our central defensive rocks, Robert Huth and Wes Morgan, we were forced to go with the same back four as against Manchester City. While they came together in the second half of that game, it wasn’t as joined up on this occasion. Far too often we left Harry Kane in acres of space, free to do as he pleased. It’s no surprise that he punished us on multiple occasions.

It would be tough to hold the Danish goalkeeper accountable for any of the six goals. Particularly the rocket by Son in the second half. He was generally left isolated and with multiple options to strike the ball to various places.

Danny Simpson was probably the best of the Foxes defenders. He’s been our joint most consistent player this season, unlucky not to be rewarded for it in the end of season awards. He was asked to do a lot though, particularly when we took Yohan Benalouane off to add an extra attacking option during the second half.

In any other game, it might be worth highlighting Ben Chilwell and his second half goal that temporarily gave us hope, bringing the score to 2-1. It marks his first professional goal for the Foxes and he did well, Hugo Lloris having had time to recover. The left-back did try to push us forward, albeit not with any major success. It will be overlooked though as the hope was short lived, Spurs grabbing their third shortly after.

The Foxes’ biggest problem was the non-existent midfield. With Danny Drinkwater and Andy King injured, and our young or fringe players ineligible after loan spells elsewhere, we had no choice but to play Wilfred Ndidi and Daniel Amartey. The latter having found his game time extremely limited or late. The away side were able to slide through this area of the pitch every time, further exposing our defence.

Already 2-0 down at half-time, and with Spurs operating a high line to minimise Jamie Vardy’s threat, we made a half-time change. Islam Slimani was dispatched in place of Shinji Okazaki to offer a different option and some much needed height. It worked for a bit too, the Algerian offering much needed aggression and a way forward.

Craig Shakespeare was very honest in admitting that when you’ve lost 6-1, there are no positives to take away from the game. There’s one chance to end the season on a high, the last game on Sunday against Bournemouth. Eddie Howe’s men would probably prefer to face us after a less heavy defeat, as we’ll no doubt be out to avenge this.

Our owners will likely have decided by now what their decision at the end of the season looks like and whether Shakespeare will be given the chance to assemble the squad as he’d like to and then see what we can achieve. The first halves recently have left a little to be desired though and one or two of the substitutions today were potentially not the best. It’ll be interesting to see if this does play into their choice at all.

For me, he’s still done enough to be given the chance. He’s stabilised the squad, turn the results around and move us closer to a top half finish that before the start of the season, we’d have been fairly happy with that. Losing heavily is never a fun ordeal to sit through though and does mean there’ll be expectations to deliver on Sunday.