As is so often pointed out - there are small margins in football. For the first ten minutes of that second half, we had certainly looked more threatening.. but, in contrast, we were less compact as a defensive unit and leaving Leicester with lots of open space. We could just as easily come a cropper. Afterwards Brendan alluded to this as he said they just needed to weather the storm for 10 minutes (and instead, Kasper ballsed up). The Leicester goal and Vardy’s effort blocked from Ake each came from individual errors at a time when our defence was “open” (because we had possession). I’m not saying we are amazing as a compact defensive unit but I also don’t believe there’s some magical formula where we start the game in an open formation involving wing backs and a midfielder “in the hole”. Doing that presents the opposition with space between our midfield and back 3. It makes for a more open / tipsy-turvy game and suits an opposition prepared to counter-attack, which is most of the league at present. Playing a formation allowing for a tight, compact defence enables us (per Eddie’s words) to “stay in the game”. We either grab a goal ourselves (and then the opposition opens up and we get more) or we concede first, despite all that defending (this has sadly been the more normal outcome) and we then switch to a more attacking formation (and accept the associated counterattack risk) later in the game. Playing an open, attacking formation from the start is perhaps viewed by Eddie as less likely to generate results because, in a game of so few margins, we are playing to the strengths of most teams in the league outside the top 6. And even against the top 6... we can’t play open as we’ll nearly always lose. The sad thing is that, the tight, compact shape has delivered relatively okay results against the top 6... but we’ve suffered against everyone else.