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Swansea Defeat At King Power Stadium

We were beaten 1-0 by Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Saturday – a day which saw the gap to Sky Bet Championship safety widen to four points.

2026-04-11T17:06+01:00

by Sam Stevens

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11 Apr, 2026

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Swansea Defeat At King Power Stadium

We were beaten 1-0 by Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Saturday – a day which saw the gap to Sky Bet Championship safety widen to four points.

Sam Stevens

2026-04-11T17:06+01:00

Swansea Defeat At King Power Stadium

We were beaten 1-0 by Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Saturday – a day which saw the gap to Sky Bet Championship safety widen to four points.

Sam Stevens

2026-04-11T17:06+01:00

Swansea Defeat At King Power Stadium

We were beaten 1-0 by Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Saturday – a day which saw the gap to Sky Bet Championship safety widen to four points.

Sam Stevens

2026-04-11T17:06+01:00

Swansea Defeat At King Power Stadium

We were beaten 1-0 by Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Saturday – a day which saw the gap to Sky Bet Championship safety widen to four points.

Sam Stevens

2026-04-11T17:06+01:00

Žan Vipotnik’s 53rd-minute breakaway goal is all that separated the sides on Filbert Way, after a first half performance where Gary Rowett’s men did create viable openings. But after going ahead, the visiting Swans dug in for the points – with there being now just four games until the end of the campaign.

Wins for Portsmouth and Oxford United on Saturday, plus a draw for Blackburn Rovers, have increased the stakes for City, who drop to 23rd in the table. It’s a huge clash with Portsmouth next up on Saturday at Fratton Park, with Pompey first playing a game in hand at home to Ipswich Town on Tuesday evening.

We then host promotion-chasing Hull City and Millwall before visiting Blackburn Rovers - with wins needed.

Chances go awry

Chance creation has not been too much of a concern for Rowett over recent weeks, but conversion has let his side down. We carved out the better opportunities against both Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday, but came away from those outings with just two points. It was similar at Watford before the international break as well.

Although it took nearly half-an-hour to start concerning Lawrence Vigouroux in the Swans net, we went in at the break on top once again. Ricardo Pereira’s powerful drive, after a neat Patson Daka flick, deflected off the far post before Vigouroux parried Daka’s looping header, with Sam Parker getting in the way of Stephy Mavididi’s follow-up.

A Daka half-volley, after chesting Divine Mukasa’s floated delivery, also put Vigouroux to task. Perhaps the clearest opportunities for City came just before the interval. When the ball landed at Abdul Fatawu’s feet, latching onto Marko Stamenic’s loose back-pass, the Ghanaian curled wide, while Oliver Skipp was also denied on the line by Vipotnik – the Championship’s top scorer – in the dying moments of the half.

Swansea capitalise

There was a let-off at the start of the second half. Vipotnik dragged the ball across the goalmouth, but it was away from everyone in the box – except for Melker Widell, who was racing onto it. The Swede had time and space to pick out his spot in Jakub Stolarczyk’s goal, wrapping his foot around the ball, but it flew high and wide.

Leicester couldn’t call on such luck moments later. From an attacking free-kick, Mukasa’s attempt to roll the ball across to Harry Winks on the edge of the area was punished, as Jisung Eom launched a devastating Swansea counter. Before long, after a huge individual burst forward by Eom, the ball was at the feet of Vipotnik to convert his 21st league goal of the season and make it 1-0.

It was a sucker-punch for Rowett’s hosts, who now needed to overturn a Swans lead with just over half-an-hour still to play on Filbert Way.

No way through

The Manager’s response was to turn to his bench. Before long, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Jordan Ayew, Jeremy Monga and Jordan James – the latter returning from injury – were on the pitch to try and mount a comeback.

One of the new faces, De Cordova-Reid, was the source of our next opening, lifting a cross in for Jamaal Lascelles to glance his header a touch wide with 10 to play.

There were half-chances for James and Jannik Vestergaard - making his 100th LCFC start - as well, before six additional minutes at the end of the 90. Fatawu also flashed wide inside added time, but there was no way through on an afternoon where we needed the points. There's four games left, with a considerable turnaround in form required.

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