The Fosse Way’s End of Season Awards 2024: Leicester City’s Goal of the Season
We gave ourselves some time to reflect on a successful but unrelenting Championship campaign for Leicester City and came up with some season awards as a result.
First up, which of the 103 goals Leicester scored in all competitions was the best of the lot?
Abdul Fatawu: Bournemouth (A) - 27 February 2024
Matt Jedruch
Ricardo's goals at Watford and Millwall are the purist picks, but there is something immensely satisfying about a long range strike which is going wide when it leaves the boot before bending inside the far post. Fantastic technique from the most exciting player at the club.
Abdul Fatawu (3rd goal): Southampton (H) - 23 April 2024
David Bevan
Like every Leicester fan, there will always be some part of me unashamedly stuck in the 2015/16 season and any time we vaguely resemble that side in any way is a joy.
To think I’d been worried about this game. We’d only just scored the fourth when the fifth arrived and it was like Ranieri’s RAF had come to the party - Dewsbury-Hall, Vardy and Fatawu flying forward to combine for a thrilling counter-attacking goal.
Wilfred Ndidi: Southampton (A) - 15 September 2023
James Knight
If there’s one goal that defines The Idea in its purest form, this was it. Despite not even making the club’s own shortlist for goal of the season, it was essentially peak Enzoball in evidence less than six weeks into the season.
Leicester kept the ball for more than a minute, beginning with some one-touch passing out from the back under pressure, then slowing down to walking pace as they waited for a weakness. When they found one, they pounced: Stephy Mavididi turning his man and slipping Ndidi in where the Nigerian, implausibly, sent one Southampton defender to the morgue and calmly slotted home.
Stephy Mavididi: Birmingham City (H) - 06 April 2024
Iain Wright
My thoughts here are conflicted, do I go for what I think is the best goal? Or do I go for a good goal but with the added weight of what it meant at the time?
I think the best goal is the James Justin one at Cardiff, which did win the club award. However, my vote is going to Stephy Mavididi and his 87th minute header vs Birmingham City. A lovely bit of Enzo ball across the pitch before a great cross from Yunus Akgun was confidently nodded in at the back post by Mavididi. Cue scenes in the stands and a vital 3 points on the leaderboard!
Ricardo Pereira: Watford (A) - 10 February 2024
Helen Thompson
The older I get, the more I find myself lured in by the spectacular (Fatawu against Bournemouth or Southampton, Justin at Cardiff or Mavididi at Chelsea) but ultimately wanting to pick a gorgeously crafted team goal.
Given Maresca’s investment in ensuring everybody has a very distinct role and set of duties, seeing so many people execute them perfectly to bag us a goal is just very satisfying. So I’ll go for a goal from one of our Championship cheat codes; Ricardo away at Watford.
It has most of the key men involved. The move starts with Mads Hermansen playing a quick pass out (risk-reward very much paying off) which is pounced on by Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall who lays it off to Harry Winks to thread it through to Ricardo who surges forward. It’s finished by Ricardo after he and Fatawu played a neat one-two move in the box. Six passes to cut out the entire Watford side and make it an away win. Beautiful stuff.
Harry Winks: West Brom (A) - 02 December 2023
Becky Taylor
I cannot argue with James Justin winning the club's official goal of the season based on the goal itself, but for me, when I think about the goals I celebrated the most this season they are both by one man; Harry Winks.
Football is about moments, and goal of the season therefore for me is that feeling. Special mention to Winksy's worldie at QPR but I'm going left field with GOTS and saying Winks away at West Brom. It's a spectacular break-away and I've genuinely watched it back at least 500 times. Last minute goals in front of the away end (especially at West Brom) will never get old.
