Leicester are set up man-for-man here & went toe-to-toe with Chelsea for the entirety of each fixture last season and won the FA Cup final w/ the same style. Nobody who is critical of Rodgers is saying anything specific about why Leicester are bad - results-based analysis.
However, now that they're 2-0 down and are getting pulled apart, the narrative is Rodgers' tactics are poor, there's too much space in midfield, etc. No - the tactics are the same from each team. However, the individual performances are not. Tielemans also isn't on the pitch.
On paper, each team are matched up incredibly evenly but one set of players are performing better than the other. As such, when that underperforming team is the team without the ball and continue to press because they need to get back into the game, they get pulled apart.
Is the Rodgers' fault? No. Is this the players fault? Yes. However, Leicester are losing and are getting pulled apart so it's easy to say that Leicester are bad tactically & that's Rodgers' fault. That's the problem with objective analysis - it often angers the casual public eye.
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