Rodgers feeling Foxes pressure
BRENDAN RODGERS goes into the international break with his job on the line after his Leicester team capitulated to concede six at Tottenham, crashing to a sixth straight defeat that leaves them rock bottom with one point.
Pressure is mounting on Rodgers, with clear signs of dissent from some fans in the away end two weeks after his team leaked five in a defeat at Brighton.
‘I don’t know, to be honest,’ Rodgers said when asked if he expected Leicester’s owners to stick with him.
‘Whatever their decision is, I’ll always respect it. I feel in the team tonight you watched them play in the first half, you can see the confidence in the team, the creativity in the team, the pressing in the team. It’s just cutting out the mistakes.
‘There’s no doubt first seven games, we’ve had a tough start especially after the summer that we have had. Tottenham away, Arsenal away, Chelsea away and Manchester United at home.’
Rodgers said that the international break ‘has probably come at a good time to reset everything and break the cycle of the summer as well’. The former Liverpool and Celtic boss added: ‘And there’s a lot of this game that was very good for us.
‘The owners will do what it is that they feel they need to do. I’m not daft. I know football. Losing the last six games doesn’t make great reading. I’ve every confidence that the team can push on and if they play like the did for large parts of this [game], we’ll climb higher in table.’
Rodgers has the protection of a lucrative contract until 2025 and credit remaining from the success he has achieved since arriving from Celtic in February 2019.
He has led Leicester to their first FA Cup win, two fifth-place finishes and the semi-finals of a European competition. But winning the Premier League title failed to exempt Claudio Ranieri from the sack.
Rodgers was defiant when asked if he coukd turn things around now. ‘Yeah. One hundred per cent,’ he said.
‘I’ve every confidence and it’s a challenge I relish.’