The fallout from Leicester City’s 2-0 defeat to Blackburn Rovers has taken a dramatic turn, with many fans now pointing fingers squarely at Stephy Mavididi for Marti Cifuentes’ looming dismissal.
The winger’s performance at the King Power Stadium was nothing short of calamitous — and in the eyes of a furious Foxes fanbase, it was the final nail in Cifuentes’ managerial coffin.
From the very first whistle, Mavididi seemed determined to single-handedly derail Leicester’s game plan. He had not one, but two golden chances to put the Foxes ahead early on. Both were squandered.
The first saw his shot deflected agonizingly over the bar, and while he thought he’d made amends by nodding in from a corner, the goal was chalked off for offside — and replays showed it was heading in without his touch anyway.
But the moment that tipped the scales came in the second half.
With Leicester pushing for an equaliser after Gudjohnsen’s opener, Mavididi found himself unmarked in the six-yard box. A perfect chance. Yet instead of burying it, he somehow allowed Blackburn keeper Balazs Toth to produce a miraculous save. Seconds later, Blackburn went up the other end and made it 2-0.
The fans had seen enough.
It wasn’t just the missed chances. It was the attitude, the lack of focus, and what many deemed as needless interference in Vestergaard’s goal-bound header earlier — a move where Mavididi got in the way and denied Leicester a crucial goal by trying to claim it himself. That moment alone has been called “the biggest self-sabotage of the season.”
And now, whether justified or not, Marti Cifuentes is on the brink. The chants of “Marti out!” have grown louder, but many supporters claim the blame should lie firmly with Mavididi — not the manager. They argue that no tactics could possibly survive such individual errors.
One thing is clear: after this Blackburn Rovers collapse, something has snapped inside the Leicester fanbase. Whether Cifuentes survives this storm remains to be seen, but the damage caused by Mavididi’s shocking display might just be irreversible.