After Brentford breezed into a winning position with three goals inside a 15-minute first-half spell, the Leicester City fans who braved a second-half downpour were left with the hope of celebrating the meagre consolation of a first goal in this dispiriting run of six consecutive home defeats.
So Leicester, in addition to the increasing possibility of a return to the Championship a decade on from winning the Premier League title, have now become the first team in top-flight history to lose six successive home league games without scoring.
By the time Fabio Carvalho stabbed home Brentford’s fourth goal in the 89th minute, the remaining Leicester fans were at least united, as they chanted ‘Sack the board’.
Everyone knows how good Brentford can be, not least since they have traded their admirable home form for a near-perfect record away sequence dating back to mid-December, but Leicester made a darned good job of making them look even better.
But Mbuemo made it two with ease as, receiving Damsgaard’s pass wide right, he showed Kristiansen exactly where he wanted to go, still cut inside on to his favoured left foot and still curled home into the gaping half net.
