Strong Leicester side fall to Palermo in pre-season friendly

Leicester could not support their winning tally successful pre-season going against Serie B broadside Palermo.

The Premier League returnees hit Shrewsbury successful a lucifer past week but fell to nan Italians connected Friday night.

This was contempt fielding a beardown squad that included Harry Winks, Wilfried Ndidi, Conor Coady and Patson Daka amongst others.

That’s not to opportunity nan Foxes didn’t person plentifulness of chances arsenic they looked to capable nan power tanks up of nan caller campaign.

Winks sent an early changeable complete nan crossbar and Stephy Mavididi had a fistful of chances successful nan first half, including an acrobatic effort that was cleared disconnected nan line.

Leicester did not make immoderate changes to their starting XI for nan early parts of nan 2nd half and location was protect activity to do for Conor Coady, who put successful a superb artifact to forestall Palermo from taking nan lead.

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But Federico Di Francesco did unfastened nan scoring pinch conscionable complete 20 minutes to play, prompting a big of changes for nan Foxes.

It saw Bobby De Cordova-Reid, James McAteer, Jannik Vestergaard and Victor Kristiansen participate nan section for nan remaining minutes.

A adjacent miss connected an ain extremity for Palermo was arsenic adjacent arsenic Leicester sewage to getting backmost into nan lucifer but it ended successful conclusion for Steve Cooper’s side.

Leicester will beryllium backmost successful action against Augsburg connected August 3 earlier they look Lens a week later.