Steve Cooper will have spent the week fuming over the fact his Leicester City side threw away a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Crystal Palace last weekend.
Jean-Philippe Mateta’s 92nd-minute strike from a penalty conceded by Conor Coady meant Leicester City‘s search for a first Premier League win of the season continued.
Steve Cooper knows that needs to change on Saturday as Leicester welcome bottom of the table Everton to the King Power, with the Toffees yet to register a single point this campaign.
Goals from Jamie Vardy and Stephy Mavididi put Leicester 2-0 up at Selhurst Park last time out, before the momentum shifted through a Mateta strike in the 47th-minute that was initially ruled out for offside before the decision was overturned by VAR.
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The decision to overturn the initial offside call left supporters baffled as it looked for all the world as though Mateta was offside even after countless replays.
The VAR images released were also inconclusive at best, meaning that in theory the on-field decision should have stood.
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Cooper was asked about the moment during his pre-Everton press conference, where he fumed: “It was an awful human error that we believe has been hidden a little bit.
“We didn’t feel it was tight, asked for clarity and have seen images that showed he was clearly offside.”
Cooper continued: “We’ve had a massive error go against is and we don’t want it to go under the radar because that’s not fair on the players or the supporters.”
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If what Cooper is saying is true then he and Leicester have every right to feel aggrieved.
However, the Foxes should still have won the game despite Mateta’s strike halving the deficit.
Leicester took the initiative in the first-half but dropped deeper and deeper as they invited pressure from Palace before eventually conceding a late penalty to break Foxes fans’ hearts.
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Cooper did not help with this as he made a number of negative substitutions, including bringing on an extra centre-back in Coady who ultimately gave the penalty away by bringing down Ismaila Sarr.
Against Everton, Cooper will have to be far more positive in his approach or he could well see the King Power faithful start to turn on him.