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How Marti made his players face the music for first-half shambles
Leicester Mercury
|December 26, 2025
BOSS SEEKS A RESPONSE TODAY
THE Leicester City players were forced to face the music after their woeful display at QPR and Marti Cifuentes hopes that will generate a response against Watford this afternoon.
City capitulated at Loftus Road and went in at halftime 4-0 down, Cifuentes describing the first period as "unacceptable".
Despite his strong feelings towards the showing and despite staring at a heavy loss, the Spaniard surprisingly chose not to make any changes to his lineup at the interval. His first substitutions of the game did not come until after the hour mark.
This story is from the December 26, 2025 edition of Leicester Mercury.
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