Wolves and Leicester are headed in polar opposite directions

Everyone still seems to be pulling in the same direction at both Wolves and Leicester. But only the former are currently going the right way.

Bruno Lage started his first-team managerial career a month before Brendan Rodgers was appointed as Leicester head coach in his sixth senior job. The latter is around three and a half years older than the former but that does not account for the gulf in comparative experience. Yet there is no competition as to who currently looks most suited to a Premier League dugout.

Wolves keep on keeping on, lurking with intent towards the back of the Champions League qualification chasing pack. That defeat to Arsenal sat so badly with the Molineux faithful but it is their only loss in eight. That run of six victories and one draw includes five top-half teams and now a Leicester side whose place as chief glass ceiling testers has been outsourced back to Wolves, as well as West Ham.

The Foxes are almost the exact inverse of their Sunday conquerors: one win in seven leaves them stranded as one of that bottom-half cabal nervously looking over collective shoulders at an improving set of relegation-threatened teams.

Leicester would need to both collapse irretrievably and witness ungodly form from the nine sides beneath them to be dragged into that particular fight. But while there is no realistic danger in moving quite that far backwards, there is equally no prospect of the Foxes finding their way forward.

Another frustrating loss. We actually played fairly well today, but ultimately didn’t create enough big chances.

Such a shame that Rodgers won’t try playing Daka and Iheanacho together. Neither look comfortable operating as a lone striker #LCFC

— Charlie Carmichael (@CharlieJC93) February 20, 2022