Will Alves

We finally got that Sammy Braybrook goal that we've been waiting for.

He was set up by Will Alves, who had latched on to a great cross on the left from Luke Thomas.

That is a Leicester City Academy trio combining there.

Luke Thomas, obviously, now a pretty established player.

Will Alves and Sammy Braybrook, neither of them had ever started a league game for Leicester City before this season.

But, Both of them in their early 20s.

Alves, a really kind of direct, dribbly, high volume wide player.

I don't understand why he's not on the bench, for instance.

I don't understand, in terms of substitutions, why Will Alves, and I think he was probably, for me, Luke Thomas was man of the match.

Will Alves was not far away.

I thought, you know, he offers a threat.

He brings a bit of initiative.

Actually, we actually sat down in most of the pubs, didn't we? It was almost like we feel so beaten by what's going on at the club at the minute.

It's almost as if us as a group, the spirit's gone.

You see, at the beginning of the season, Tim, I know there's obviously loads of transfers coming and going, but the reality of it is, if you looked at it, if you looked at the players that were always likely still to be here after the transfer window, you think about Paige Braybuck, Will Alves, Thomas Suter, Akoli, you would have said, well, there's a spine of a team that is more than good enough to give us what we need to get out.

First though, here's how it happened.

It was good play by Leicester, Doyle's on his bike, Thomas delivers, great ball looking for Braybrook all the way through, Alves pulls it across and Braybrook puts it home.

One minute and six seconds on the clock and Leicester City have themselves an opener.

And it's another fantastic ball from Luke Thomas down the left-hand side after good work from Louis Page and Oconee.

Whipped into the area, saw the run of Braybrooke.

He couldn't quite meet it.

But Alves is there to put it back across.

And Sammy Braybrooke was lurking inside the six-yard box to score his first ever Leicester City goal.

But sadly, the final result was Luton Town 2, Leicester City 1 on the 24th of October, 2026.

The team was Alex McCarthy, Harry Suter, Caleb O'Coley, Warren O'Hara, Luke Thomas, Louis Page, Will Alves, John Lundstrom, Kamari Doyle, Sammy Braybrook and Emile Rees.

The subs that were used were Wes Burns on 45 minutes for Caleb O'Coley and BDCR on 89 minutes for Warren O'Hara.

We had Will Smallbone on 45 minutes for Louis Page.

and oh what a swashbuckling

performance this was i am being ever so slightly sarcastic however the more important thing is joking aside leicester city three wigan athletic nil on the 27th of october 2026 so a couple of days ago now The team for that was Alex McCarthy, Harry Suter, Caleb O'Coley, Warren O'Hara, Luke Thomas.

William Smallbone, Will Alves, Louis Page, Kamari Doyle, Conor Chaplin and Emil Rees.

The subs being Sammy Braybrook, 61 minutes for Will Smallbone.

I'll start with the positives, I think.

Will Alves.

Baybrook didn't feature last night, or didn't start at least.

But there's also, I think, been really decent.

So, Let's just have a couple more.

We've got buzzers saying that our lack of a real wing quality will hurt us.

Will Alves be our only impactful winner? Have Rhys got injured? Will our very little up front? That'll be one of my final questions, actually, when we go to the centre-forwards.

We are consistently inconsistent.

I hope the manager is doing that, especially with these young players, because that's how I think they learn quicker and they get more confidence to go and do it when the managers sort of told you in that manner

uh andy from wittig saying boring not worth the entrance fee the fans don't get the buzz or excitement anymore and then this message saying solid performance bit sloppy in patches but our progression through doyle was really sharp look better in transition in the first half really good second half from thomas as well been really happy with his work rate and desire david saying patchy win but a clean sheet nonetheless great route one goal for reese's second important we got a win on today of all days of course referencing the fact that it's uh eight years since the tragic passing of the club's chairman and four of the people in that helicopter crash here at king power stadium there was tributes paid to all five people at pre-game tonight at king power stadium Stuart saying, man of the match, Will Alves.

Absolutely brilliant tonight.

Different side when Sammy comes on.