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ScorecardThe vision of a prosperous future that Derbyshire were eager to embrace after Kim Barnett’s dismantling and reconstruction of a failed coaching model over the winter is still more than a little blurred but this was one day, at least, when the picture had a sharper focus.So far this season, Nottinghamshire have for the most part looked like a team playing in the wrong division. Some of Derbyshire’s more cynical supporters have reflected that the same might be true of their side… except there is no Division Three.For Derbyshire to bowl out the leaders for their lowest total to date – the first time, in fact, they have not passed 300 – therefore came as something of a surprise, although having opted to forego the toss and bowl, skipper Billy Godleman clearly thought there might be something in the conditions to exploit on a warm but overcast morning with rain about.He also had something new to toss into the mix in Conor McKerr, who became the 14th player to bowl in five first-class matches for Derbyshire this season, which says something about how far they are from a settled line-up, although injuries have been a factor too.McKerr, on loan from Surrey for 28 days, arrived as an unknown quantity. Aged 19, born in South African and with a UK passport, he had not played a first-class match even in his homeland before this one. All manner of divides – geographical, social – have meant the Peakites have never much cared for the Brown Hats down the years so to be borrowing from their Second XI may for some have been hard to stomach.Yet it did not take long for it to become clear that bringing him north was a shrewd move on director of cricket Barnett’s part, or at least one based on trustworthy advice. Standing 6ft 6ins tall and with a strong upper body, McKerr has a quick arm and some skill too. He took his maiden first-class wicket with his fourth ball.There was a rocky patch after lunch when he conceded 25 runs in three overs but the other 15 cost only 28. That he could come back from that mauling and take his second wicket with the second ball of his next spell suggests a strong temperament too. Had Tony Palladino, at the other end of the experience scale, not dismissed three of Nottinghamshire’s top four, McKerr could arguably have claimed to be Derbyshire’s bowler of the day.Tony Palladino picked up four wickets but an unusual signing also caught the eye•Getty Images

“It all happened pretty quickly,” Kerr said. “I got a phone call from Alec Stewart and he said there was an opportunity to go to Derby, would you like it? There wasn’t even a debate. That’s the dream, that’s what I moved from South Africa to England for, I couldn’t be happier.”It was a strange day for the leaders. They were asked to bat first in their first two home matches and made well in excess of 400 in both. Even after Jake Libby’s early demise, edging McKerr to first slip, there looked every prospect of the pattern being repeated.Cheteshwar Pujara, after his home debut century last week, fell for 29 when Palladino had him taken behind the wicket (where Daryl Smit has displaced Gary Wilson), but when Steven Mullaney and Samit Patel then began picking off boundaries seemingly at will, Godleman might have wished he had paid more heed to what happened to Gloucestershire last week, and to Sussex before them.In less than 10 overs, the third-wicket pairing added 72 runs. The punishment suffered by McKerr – slapped almost nonchalantly for six over cover by Patel – was meted out also on Tom Taylor, who leaked 28 runs in three overs. Mullaney took him for four boundaries in five deliveries in one of those.But then, almost out of the blue, Palladino dismissed them both within half a dozen balls, in remarkably similar fashion. Patel, driving extravagantly, missed what appeared to be a fairly straight delivery. Mullaney, similarly loose, followed suit in the next over. Perhaps there was some movement in the air, although by no means substantial.Thereafter, although Riki Wessels tried to rebuild it, the momentum of the innings rather dribbled away and Derbyshire had reason to feel that they had put it a satisfactory shift.They lost two wickets in the 19 overs that remained either side of an eight-over stoppage for rain, the dismissal of Shiv Thakor to a sharp slip catch by Patel in the last of those overs leaving them a tad disappointed. Irrespective of that, it was still their day.

أكد طارق السيد لاعب الزمالك السابق، على صعوبة مواجهة الفريق المقبلة في كأس الكونفدرالية أمام مواطنه نادي فيوتشر.

وقال طارق السيد في حديث لقناة “الزمالك” الفضائية: “مباراة فيوتشر مهمة جدًا، الكونفدرالية هي البطولة الأهم في الفترة الحالية، الزمالك قادر على تحقيق نتيجة كبيرة وإيجابية، نريد أن نلعب لعبًا تجاريًا لأن أمامنا مباراة الإياب بعد أسبوع”.

وأكمل: “لدي ثقة كبيرة في الجهاز الفني واللاعبين، لأن الكونفدرالية بطولة مهمة لمجموعة اللاعبين الحاليين”.

إقرأ أيضًا..رسميًا | مواعيد نهائي دوري أبطال إفريقيا والكونفدرالية موسم 2023-2024

وأضاف: “الفرصة متاحة للاعبين لكي يكشروا عن أنيابهم في المباراتين، ويثبتوا أن هذه البطولة لن يفرطوا فيها”.

واختتم: “كل الفرق المتواجدة في البطولة، الزمالك أفضل منها فنيًا، مهم جدًا أن يكون لاعبو الزمالك في حالتهم، لأنهم هم من يؤدون في الملعب، أتمنى أن نحافظ على شباكنا نظيفة حتى لو لم نسجل أهدافًا”.

ويستعد الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك لمواجهة مودرن فيوتشر يوم 31 مارس الجاري في ذهاب دور ربع النهائي لبطولة كأس الكونفدرالية الإفريقية باستاد السلام، على أن تقام مباراة العودة بين الفريقين يوم 7 أبريل المقبل باستاد القاهرة.

On a day of contrasting openers and innings at the SCG, David Warner blasted his way to the first century before lunch in Tests in Australia, then 20-year-old Matt Renshaw dug in to become Australia’s seventh-youngest centurion

The Report by Daniel Brettig02-Jan-2017
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details4:42

Chappell: ‘Misbah played into Warner’s hands’

David Warner enshrined himself among the greats of the game’s past before Matt Renshaw secured his Australian future. On a day of contrasting openers and innings at the SCG, Warner blasted his way to the first century before lunch in Tests in Australia, then 20-year-old Renshaw dug in to become Australia’s seventh-youngest centurion.If Warner’s innings was the favourite of a festive New Year’s crowd, Renshaw will have delighted Australia’s selectors, coaches and players with a display of the sort of calm assurance so vital to Test match success. Renshaw styled much of his game on England’s Alastair Cook: working the ball repeatedly off his hip then driving and cutting occasionally he played very much the spit of an innings the older man made against Australia on this ground six years ago.Having played a major role in Australia’s win in Melbourne by scoring a rapid century, Warner doubled down with another intimidatory batting effort against Pakistani bowling that mixed the presentable with the ordinary on a blameless SCG pitch. Warner joined Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney, Sir Donald Bradman and Majid Khan as the only other men to score a century in the very first session of a Test. Majid was the most recent batsman to get there, making his century against New Zealand in Karachi in 1976-77.While Warner was unable to go on for long after the interval, Renshaw wedged himself into the wicket, and was composed through the departures of Usman Khawaja and the captain Steven Smith before Pete Handscomb, another bright young thing, settled in. With the debutant Hilton Cartwright and an out of touch Matthew Wade below them, this pair played with some care to reach stumps.After Smith won the toss and announced two changes to the Melbourne team, Steve O’Keefe and Cartwright, Warner rocketed away with a volley of boundaries in the first two overs of the match, the second of which was bowled by one of Pakistan’s inclusions, Imran Khan. From there it seemed only a matter of Warner keeping his wicket intact and getting enough strike, two tasks he performed without much trouble as barely a ball beat the bat.There were runs either side of the pitch for Warner; a lack of straight-driven boundaries reflecting both the pugilism of his method and also the shortish lengths favoured by Pakistan’s bowlers. Pull shots and punches through the covers were most prevalent, all played with a level of hustling intent that suggested Warner always knew the hundred before lunch was on.David Warner celebrated his 18th Test century off only 78 balls•Cricket Australia/Getty Images

In the end Warner was able to go from 95 to 100 with a two and a three from the bowling of Wahab Riaz, the first a pull shot and the second a punch behind square on the off side that should only have been worth two but became the pivotal third via a misfield. Warner’s celebration was typically ebullient; he had already made history in a match just two hours old.It was to be Wahab who sent Warner back to the dressing room, via an SCG standing ovation, when he coaxed an indeterminate edge when trying to run the ball down through the gully region. Khawaja’s edge arrived a few overs later from a more aggressive attempt to score, and it was Renshaw who got the balance right.Smith, having been so dominant in Melbourne, surprised in edging an attempted cut at Yasir Shah and falling to an excellent catch by Sarfraz Ahmed, the prelude to a nervy period in the 90s for Renshaw after tea. On 91 his visor wore the brunt of a Mohammad Amir bouncer, and a check-up from the team doctor Peter Brukner was required before Renshaw continued.In the end a hurried single was enough to take him to the milestone, triggering an outpouring of joy that reminded all present of the difficult spells he has already negotiated whether against Vernon Philander in Adelaide, Amir at the Gabba or a fiery Wahab here. Handscomb was meanwhile reprieved when Sarfraz failed to go with a Yasir legbreak that could have resulted in a stumping.More runs flowed from Renshaw’s bat, his stroke range expanding in direct correlation to the amount of time he spent in the middle. There is plenty of power in his tall frame, but the aversion he shows in the formative stages of his innings will serve him well in what now seem likely to be many years of Test batting to come.

Match facts

December 6, 2016
Start time 1420 local (0320 GMT)1:18

‘We need to take our innings deeper’ – Munro

Big Picture

New Zealand must have left the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday night thinking, “if only”. If only they had asked for a review when Steven Smith was given not-out by umpire Mick Martell after being trapped lbw on 14, the first ODI might have unfolded quite differently. Trent Boult’s fine delivery had swung in and trapped Smith in front, but New Zealand declined to refer Martell’s decision upstairs. “There was plenty of chat afterwards about that,” New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said. “There were two sounds and the possibility of an inside edge. We’re all well aware there wasn’t. That was the thinking and you could understand it. It was a little bit frustrating.” The reason it was frustrating was that Smith went on to accumulate 164 and set up a big win for Australia.The teams now move on to Canberra with Australia 1-0 up in the three-match series, so New Zealand must win at the Manuka Oval on Tuesday to have any hope of retaining the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. The good news for New Zealand is that they had one batsman who looked every bit as dangerous as Smith at the SCG, but unfortunately for them, Martin Guptill couldn’t go quite as deep into the innings as Smith, and fell for 114 off 102 balls. The toss may be particularly important in Canberra, where big runs are generally available, and the team batting first has won the six most recent ODIs.

Form guide

Australia: WLLLL (last five completed matches, most recent first)
New Zealand: LLWLW

In the spotlight

A golden duck in Sydney was hardly the start Aaron Finch wanted in this series, but he will be pleased to arrive in Canberra for the second game. Take a look at Finch’s scores in his three ODIs at the Manuka Oval: 38, 109 and 107. His last two hundreds at the venue have come against South Africa and India, and Finch could use a big score again: in 18 ODIs since the end of the previous home summer, Finch has averaged just 26.25.After New Zealand lost Guptill, their hopes of chasing down the hefty target in Sydney faded. But, while Colin Munro was at the crease, there remained at least a tiny glimmer of hope. Munro struck four fours and one six in his innings of 49, and put on 50 for the eighth wicket with Matt Henry. While they were together, the required run rate hovered around nine an over, but at least it didn’t balloon too much further. But when they both holed out in one Pat Cummins over – the 44th of the innings – the dream was dashed. “It was a different sort of knock than what I’m used to playing,” Munro said. “Given that role to try and take things a bit deeper in the innings sort of suits my game. Hopefully, in the games to come, we can have a few extra batters around me at the end and have a bit of a hit.”Lockie Ferguson had a forgettable debut in Sydney and may make way for Tim Southee•Cricket Australia/Getty Images

Team news

Glenn Maxwell and James Faulkner were the two members of Australia’s 13-man squad left out in Sydney, and the selectors may wish to retain the winning XI in an attempt to secure the series.Australia (possible) 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch, 3, Steven Smith (capt), 4 George Bailey, 5 Mitchell Marsh, 6 Travis Head, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Adam Zampa, 10 Pat Cummins, 11 Josh Hazlewood.Lockie Ferguson picked up a wicket in his first international over, but the rest of his debut was rather costly: he leaked 73 runs from nine overs, sent down four no-balls and therefore four free hits, and also cramped up. Tim Southee might come in for Ferguson in Canberra. New Zealand may also wonder if their batting order could be strengthened by the inclusion of Henry Nicholls.New Zealand (possible) 1 Tom Latham, 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Jimmy Neesham, 5 Colin Munro, 6 BJ Watling (wk), 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Colin de Grandhomme, 9 Matt Henry, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Trent Boult.

Pitch and conditions

Manuka Oval is the kind of venue where big totals are on offer batting first, and chasing can be a challenge. The forecast for Tuesday is for a shower or two and a top temperature of 28 degrees centigrade.

Stats and trivia

• In Sydney, Guptill became the tenth-fastest player to 5000 ODI runs, behind Hashim Amla, Viv Richards, Virat Kohli, Brian Lara, Gordon Greenidge, AB de Villiers, Sourav Ganguly, Dean Jones and Graeme Smith.
• This will be Kane Williamson’s 100th one-day international.
• Adam Zampa enters this game as the world’s leading ODI wicket-taker in 2016, with 30 scalps at 27.80. His feat is all the more impressive given he didn’t make his ODI debut until February in New Zealand.

Quotes

“We were a little bit frustrated with the fact we chased the game with the ball. We had some good plans in place and perhaps we need to back those a bit more. We weren’t far off.”

Adelaide Oval curator Damian Hough has said the pitch this year will have less grass than for last year’s day-night Test

Daniel Brettig in Adelaide22-Nov-2016

Adelaide Oval’s carefully prepared day/night Test pitch has been tweaked as a result of last summer’s day three finish to offer less to bowlers – two millimetres less to be precise.The height of the grass on the surface was a major talking point in the aftermath of the inaugural floodlit Test, with Australia’s captain Steven Smith and his New Zealand counterpart Brendon McCullum both reasoning the experimental pink ball would be no worse off for more extensive use of the lawn mower.What would change, though, was the amount of seam movement on offer to the bowlers. Batsmen, administrators, broadcasters and sponsors would all prefer a match that lasts until the fourth evening at least, meaning the seamers who prospered last year will likely be the chief parties disappointed by the curator Damian Hough’s latest creation.”Preparation-wise still leaving a bit of grass on it,” he said. “We’re bringing the starting height down and the finished height will be down another 2mm from last year.”In review of last year, which was a good learning experience, leaving the grass on it assisted the quicks a little bit more. We were really happy with the game but feel a couple millimetres less will hopefully still keep it a good contest between bat and ball – that’s what we’re after.”It mightn’t nip around quite as much. You still think it will hoop around a bit at night with the ball but we thought maybe we’ll get that balance a bit better.”Hough’s work with Adelaide’s drop-in surfaces has evolved considerably since they were first installed for the summer of 2013-14. The surface then was prepared to be dry after the fashion of Adelaide’s original square, but a lack of the desired deterioration pushed Hough to take a different approach in which thatchy grass coverage could assist both pacemen and spinners throughout a match.”Our game plan with leaving the grass on is to leave a coarse thatchy grass, the ball will bite into for the quicks it should also do the same for the spinner,” Hough said. “We’ve ben doing that for two years now and the feedback has been the spinners have still been able to get purchase out of that grass and get a bit of turn.”The grass we leave on it, we’re not going to get a lot of breaking up. We haven’t had that for 3-4 years. We’re going down that path, don’t get that natural deterioration so we’ll get the grass to assist the ball biting in and moving around a little bit.”While Hough has been lauded about his work with drop-in surfaces, he admitted there was still much unknown about them, for wickets can take years of use to mature in their characteristics.”It’s still new. Is it the drop-in pitch that’s preventing the pitch from deteriorating or is it a brand new wicket area and brand new soil that needs time to mature? Who knows,” he said. “We’ve got different pitches that we’ve remade, or rebuilt some drop-in pitches with a different grass variety that is opening up. We’ll keep working on it and keep assessing it and adjusting as we see fit.”Where we’re at now, we’re really comfortable with the feedback from all the visiting players, coaches at Shield level has been really positive. We’re trying to produce a pitch with a really good contest from bat and ball.”

أعلن يورجن كلوب، المدير الفني لفريق كرة القدم الأول بنادي ليفربول عن تشكيل اللاعبين لمواجهة برينتفورد، ضمن الجولة 25 من الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

ليفربول يحل ضيفًا على برينتفورد، بملعب جريفين بارك، ويقود المباراة تحكيميًا الدولي الإنجليزي مايكل أوليفر.

ويجلس الدولي المصري محمد صلاح على مقاعد البدلاء، بعد عودته من جديد لقائمة الريدز، لأول مرة بعد غيابه قبل أمم إفريقيا وإصابته مع المنتخب المصري.

طالع أيضًا | كلوب: لم أتخيل هذا الهجوم على محمد صلاح في مصر.. وعودته إلى ليفربول ليست من أجل الأرقام

ويقود هجوم ليفربول كل من لويس دياز وداروين نونيز وديوجو جوتا، فيما يحرس المرمى كيليهير في ظل إصابة أليسون بيكر. تشكيل ليفربول أمام برينتفورد في الدوري الإنجليزي اليوم

حراسة المرمى: أليسون بيكرز

خط الدفاع: كونور برادلي، فيرجيل فان دايك، إبراهيما كوناتي، أندرو روبرتسون.

وسط الملعب: واتارو إندو، أليكسيس ماك أليستر، كورتيس جونز.

الهجوم: لويس دياز، داروين نونيز، ديوجو جوتا.

البدلاء: محمد صلاح، جو جوميز، أدريان، جاكبو، هارفي إليوت، تسيميكاس، جرافنبيرخ، ماكونيل، كونساه.

يضغط الدكتور أشرف صبحي، وزير الشباب والرياضة، على مسؤولي الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم، بشأن التراجع عن فكرة التعاقد مع مدير فني أجنبي لقيادة الفراعنة في المرحلة المُقبلة.

اتحاد الكرة كان قد أعلن إقالة البرتغالي روي فيتوريا وجهازه المعاون، بعد خروج منتخب مصر من بطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2023، على يد الكونغو الديمقراطية بركلات الترجيح.

وأعلن اتحاد الكرة تولي الكابتن محمد يوسف تدريب منتخب مصر لفترة مؤقتة، لحين حسم ملف المدير الفني الجديد.

وعلم “بطولات”، أن وزير الرياضة يواصل الضغط على اتحاد الكرة، من أجل تعيين مدرب وطني لمنتخب مصر؛ وذلك بسبب أزمة الدولار.

وعلى الجانب الآخر، تُجرى مفاوضات بين اتحاد الكرة والفرنسي هيرفي رينارد، من أجل توليه تدريب الفراعنة في الفترة القادم.

وعقد وزير الرياضة جلسة مع حسام حسن، المدير الفني الحالي لفريق مودرن فيوتشر، ورحب الأخير بقيادة منتخب مصر.

وتُجرى الآن اتصالات بين الوزير أشرف صبحي واتحاد الكرة، من أجل إقناع مجلس الإدارة بغلق ملف المدير الفني الأجنبي، وتعيين الكابتن حسام حسن.

أعرب باتريك فليب، مدرب منتخب تونس لكرة اليد، عن حزنه بعد الخسارة أمام مصر في نصف نهائي كأس الأمم الإفريقية.

وفاز منتخب مصر لكرة اليد على تونس بنتجة 30/25 في المباراة التي أقيمت بينهما بالصالة المغطاة باستاد القاهرة في نصف نهائي كأس الأمم الإفريقية والمقامة في مصر خلال الفترة من 17 إلى 27 يناير الجاري.

وقال فليب في تصريحات خلال المؤتمر الصحفي عقب المباراة: “الفريق لم يقدم الأداء المطلوب في مباراته أمام مصر خاصة في الشوط الأول من المواجهة”.

طالع أيضاً.. كارلوس باستور: مباراة تونس كانت صعبة.. وهدفنا التتويج بلقب البطولة الإفريقية

وأضاف: “المنتخب المصري كان الأفضل ونجح في الفوز بالمباراة نتيجة خبرات لاعبيه وامتلاكه مجموعة من أبرز اللاعبين”.

وأتم: “أشكر اللاعبين على أدائهم طوال مباريات البطولة، مواجهة مصر كانت صعبة للغاية خاصة في ظل الدعم الكبير للجماهير المصرية طوال المباراة”.

Referee Robert Madley may have made a major mistake in the latest West Bromwich Albion match after missing a huge penalty shout.

What's the latest on VAR and West Brom?

The Baggies just about managed to keep their play-off hopes alive on the weekend as they picked up a 2-1 win in the Championship against Norwich City.

Josh Sargent opened the scoring for the away side at The Hawthorns before Conor Townsend levelled things up on the stroke of half-time with a brilliant curling free-kick. He then turned provider when setting up Jed Wallace, who scored what turned out to be the winner in the 56th minute.

That win was vital for West Brom as it means they go into the final day of the season with a chance of securing a play-off place – though they sit eighth in the division, two points off sixth. When reflecting on the victory, however, it seems as though Carlos Corberan and company had to ride their luck at times.

Indeed, as seen in the official Sky Sports highlights package, Semi Ajayi can been seen standing on the foot of Gabriel Sara inside the box.

Was it a penalty for Norwich after the Semi Ajayi challenge?

Despite this clear foul happening right in front of referee Madley, he opted to wave play on and with no VAR in the Championship, the Baggies certainly got away with one.

In Sky Sports' coverage, a commentator can be heard saying: "He stands on his foot, doesn't he?" And with that contact being undeniable, Ajayi can count himself lucky this decision went his way.

Norwich manager David Wagner certainly wasn't happy about the missed foul. Indeed, when speaking after the game, he told BBC Radio Norfolk (via BBC Sport): "The first half was good from the lads. They kept the ball in the right moments and were a threat on the transition as well.

"We should have had the lead earlier but scored a wonderful goal and didn't get the penalty we should have got."

A win on the day would have handed the Canaries an outside chance of edging into sixth on the final day of the season. However, such are the fine margins of sport, it's now potentially on the cards for West Brom to claim that spot as they keep their Premier League ambitions just about alive.

On another day, however, the penalty is given and perhaps this game doesn't end so well for the Baggies.

Everton, on a day when a win would have propelled them up the table, instead suffered one of their worst losses of the season at home to Fulham.

Welcoming Marco Silva's struggling outfit to Goodison Park, who were without Aleksandar Mitrovic due to his suspension, it seemed like the stars might align for the Toffees to climb the Premier League with a result. After all, with the tumultuous run-in they are set to face, it marked one of their easier games on paper.

However, slow starts in each half consigned them to an embarrassing 3-1 defeat, where the visitors admittedly played them off the park.

A catalogue of errors resulted in the Cottagers first, but that seemed to spark the hosts into life, culminating in Dwight McNeil's fine equaliser. Sean Dyche's men would press on further, seeking to take advantage of their superiority, but would only go in at the break with the scores level.

Golden chances had been spurned, and it always felt like this would come back to haunt them.

That was almost instantly the case, when Harry Wilson was able to power home from Willian's cutback to reinstate their lead, which they would not relinquish for a second time. Dan James added another with 20 minutes to go, and the atmosphere on Merseyside quickly turned toxic.

A fury and vitriol quickly descended upon the ground, aimed at those on the field who had caused such a mess. Whilst few covered themselves in any kind of glory, Demarai Gray was a standout passenger.

How did Demarai Gray play vs Fulham?

Returning to his preferred flank with the introduction of Neal Maupay, it was expected that the £25k-per-week wide man would play a key role in any offensive success the hosts might have enjoyed.

However, it quickly became clear that this was not to be the case.

An anonymous 90 minutes on the pitch culminated in just 40 touches, of which goalkeeper Jordan Pickford actually recorded more (45).

Such a distinct lack of involvement unsurprisingly led to dwindling influence on the game, as the 26-year-old completed zero successful crosses, recorded no key passes and even missed a big chance, via Sofascore. A torrid day at the office for the attacking asset who offered no offensive input.

Writer Peter Guy put it succinctly when summing up Gray's contribution yesterday, as he wrote on Twitter that he "never turned up".

What makes it even more frustrating is the lack of work rate from the Englishman, who would lose four of the whopping 17 duels he competed in. Dyche would likely excuse struggles up front, but this kind of work-shy behaviour cannot be allowed to stand.

Whilst most in Royal Blue let down the club yesterday, with his 6.0 rating the joint-worst of anyone on the pitch, few disappointed as heavily as the former Leicester City man.