Harvey Barnes salvages vital point for Leicester at Brentford

Leicester have made a habit of doing things the hard way this season and it needed an equaliser from Harvey Barnes to rescue a valuable point against 10-man Brentford after Brendan Rodgers’s side displayed their inability to defend set pieces once again.

Mathias Jensen’s deflected goal that rounded off a brilliant corner routine had seemed to put Thomas Frank’s side on course for a place in the top six heading into the international break. But staring down the barrel of a sixth straight defeat that would have left them level on points with West Ham in the bottom three, Rodgers took comfort from a battling performance after Barnes struck at the start of the second half and Brentford substitute Shandon Baptiste was sent off for picking up two bookings in the space of minutes after coming off the bench.