Leicester Sacks Manager After Crystal.palace Defeat

Leicester were beaten 4-1 at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday which lead to the termination of Claude Puels’ contract.
Claude Puel paid the price for poor results, failing to inspire players or fans, and the style issues at Leicester.
Leicester were sitting in seventh after a New Year’s Day win at Everton but have since failed to win any of their seven matches in all competitions, losing six of them.
As well as Saturday’s collapse against Crystal Palace, that has included a home defeat to struggling Southampton and an extraordinary 4-3 defeat to Wolves .Most damningly, there was the 2-1 FA Cup third-round defeat to League Two side Newport County. It’s a run that would have put any coach under pressure.
It is also true that the fans caused the immediate termination of Claude Puels’ contract. The fans had been left annoyed last season when the Leicester boss left Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez on the bench for the Carabao Cup quarter-final tie against Manchester City.
That was repeated this season with Leicester losing again to City on penalties at that quarter-final stage after again resting players, but it was the defeat to Newport that was harder to accept.
According to Rob Dorsett, Puel’s strained relationship with key players led to the sack.
Early in December, Vardy admitted that Puel’s style of play did not suit him, describing the transition to a more possession-based game as frustrating.
As for Schmeichel, the comments of his father, Peter made headlines earlier this month. “They’ve got good players,” he said, “they just don’t have the manager who can get the best out of them. Once that is sorted out we will see them in the eighth to fifth place where I think they belong.” It was bad timing for Puel.