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I think Rowett is a fair improvement on Marti but I don't think he's a good manager. I think he's passable, at least with the limited time he's had with a dejected and disjointed team. Marti was sacked not just because of recent results but because our performances were shocking. Oxford awful, Wrexham awful and lucky, Cov we only played one half of football, West Brom we were appalling and got incredibly lucky, Sheffield awful, Derby we edged it but both teams mediocre. Compare to performances under Rowett, Stoke we were the better side, Middlesborough second best but competitive, Norwich shocking, Ipswich shocking and lucky, Bristol good, QPR awful, Watford we were the better side and deserved to win, Preston again we deserved to win. Mixed bag but improvement. There's noticeable differences on the pitch too. Fewer wasted misplaced passes in midfield (the sheer volume of wasted passes was becoming unbearable by the end of Cifuentes' reign), players don't look as gassed or lazy in the second half and can actually fight and grow into games. Still think we have set piece issues at both ends and players need to put away chances. He was brought in to manage a group of players that to be frank wasn't being managed by a clueless Cifuentes and yeah I think he's doing that. Hope it's enough but I'm not predicting anything.

Rowett is setting us up in a lot of games to actually fight to win them in ways Cifuentes really wasn't. He's also gradually filtering out players without mental strength or who are mistake prone or who don't really contribute (Ayew, Page, Nelson, Monga, all of whom had many appearances under Cifuentes without doing much). He's also actively seeing which players he can trust as he goes along e.g. trying out Hamza to shore up the defence but realising Hamza never looks forward so with him we don't have threat. Yeah we still cock up games. But if we conceded those 2 Preston goals under Cifuentes, that would be it. They'd probably get a third. We'd have no chances the rest of the game. How many games did you watch this season where we needed a goal with 40 minutes to play and we had literally zero chances the rest of the game? It was like a bad joke by the end. We could never win a game under Cifuentes that wasn't against some dejected side with zero fight in them. Cifuentes was actively draining our players' team cohesion as the season went on, they couldn't pass, heads were down in most second halves even if we were winning. He had them playing like strangers, Rowett has them playing like a team a lot of the time and he's really not had much time to do that so that's credit to him.

4-3 in the Man U game for sure. In fact that game in general is probably my favourite Leicester moment.