Leicester City 0 Cardiff City 1: match report Should Leicester return to the top flight, one player who may thrive is Anthony Knockaert. The French Under-21 midfielder, who closely resembles Samir Nasri in appearance and style of play, twice brought further acrobatics out of Marshall with superbly-struck long range thunderbolts. The Foxes, who boast the meanest defence in the Championship, were untroubled by the league-leaders until the two Craigs, Conway and Bellamy, combined for the latter to a produce a finish of Premier League calibre as he dropped off his marker and swept home a first time shot to hand Cardiff an undeserved lead. "It was a sucker-punch," said misanthropic Leicester manager Nigel Pearson of Bellamy's goal. The Foxes, however, refused to be cowed. Still they poured forward, attacking with purpose, and Jamie Vardy almost sent the sides in level, only for his glanced header to come back of the crossbar. Nugent again came close to his landmark but saw his header cleared off the line by Conway. Mackay will have been pleased with the way his side defended here whilst still proving a threat on the break. "Something that shines through in our group is a lack of ego," said Mackay. I'm looking at the way Craig Bellamy is closing people down in the last five minutes. He (Bellamy) said that the team spirit here is one of the best he has known. Shirt sponsorship and advertising hoardings bombarded visitors to the King Power Stadium with invitations to visit Asia. Sitting in rain of biblical proportions, watching their team outplay but not outwit Cardiff, it must have been a sorely tempting offer for Leicester's supporters.