Nigeria’s duo of Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Onyinyen Ndidi at Leicester City of England have emerged with different ratings, at the head and middle respectively of the scales of The Foxes’ best performers of the English Premier League season before it was suspended, megasportsarena.com gathered.
While Ndidi appears among the upper class of players that have brought joy back to King Power Stadium by keeping the 2016 champions in third place on the EPL table, up till when coronavirus put everything on hold, Iheanacho placed just above the club’s third rate lot, as he is found to occupy one of the mid-class spots.
The snappy haul of goals Iheanacho was able to get in a trio of Cup games helped him pull above average on the latest scorecard issued for The Foxes, as he finds his place in the string of second class players for the club he joined from Manchester City, while Ndidi keeps excelling in all departments, picking milestones one by the dozen, which has set him up to be among the best.
Ndidi made it into the rating’s A-Class, while Iheanacho gets to B-Class on the data collated by Joe Prince-Wright of NBC Sports, who added: “Leicester City have had a tremendous Premier League season as they’ve sat in the top four for pretty much the entire 2019-20 campaign, so why don’t we reveal a ranking of how they’ve performed?
“Everyone loves a ranking. Below we give each Leicester player a grade, ranking and group them together based on their season(s) so far. If a Leicester player is listed in this ranking it is because they’ve played in more than five games in all competitions.”
Prince-Wright’s verdict for Ndidi stated:”Emerging as one of the top defensive midfielders in the game, Ndidi wins the ball back time and time again to set Leicester on their way. The young Nigerian star was out injured for a few weeks and that coincided with Leicester’s worst run of the season. Coincidence? Nope.”
Iheanacho’s summary reads: “Doesn’t play often but when he does he usually scores. He will get the chance to replace Vardy in the next few years and perhaps that is the chance he is waiting for. Remarkably Iheanacho is only 23 years old.”
