Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers is aware of the significance of successful within the Premier League and desires his gamers to take confidence and consistency into their upcoming video games.
The Foxes twice got here from behind to beat Unai Emery’s Aston Villa in a 4-2 victory final weekend and Rodgers hopes his facet could be extra constant, as they head into their subsequent six league video games earlier than the worldwide break.
Leicester come up towards Tottenham on Saturday, who’re on a excessive after their latest 1-0 victory over champions and present title contenders Manchester City final weekend, whereas Spurs ran Leicester ragged with a 6-2 scoreline the final time the perimeters met again in September.
However, Rodgers needs Leicester to show performances into consistency, regardless of who their opponents are.
He informed a press convention: “We’re in an industry where it’s about winning.
“I think when you go away to Aston Villa in particular, who are doing well and to show all the attributes you need to win a game of football in the Premier League, we demonstrated that.
“You need consistency. (It was a) really good win and performance last week, great atmosphere by the supporters. Now we need to take that consistency into the next game.
“No matter how tough it is and no matter who the opponent is, it’s taking that mentality and bringing that consistency – so that’s the challenge going through to the next international break.
“Certainly the confidence from that game, we take that into training and that’s what I’ve seen this week.”
Nigeria ahead Kelechi Iheanacho began simply his second league sport final weekend however was important in that latest victory, helping two targets and scoring as soon as, taking his targets and assists tally to seven in all competitions for the season.
Rodgers has praised Iheanacho’s dedication in coaching which has led to extra minutes on the sector.
He continued: “He scored a goal, he created two, especially the pass to Tete which was a perfect weight of pass but he does that because he drops in deep.
“He’s a fantastic link player and in order to do that you need people to run beyond him.
“His quality is there and we now have the guys in the roles that can do that and I thought he was excellent last weekend and he has been very good in training also.”
Rodgers marks 4 years within the scorching seat at Leicester later this month and has seen necessary gamers depart the membership throughout his time, within the type of Wesley Fofana, Harry Maguire and Ben Chilwell amongst others.
Some of Rodgers’ males shall be coming to the tip of their present contracts throughout the subsequent 18 months however he’s excited on the prospect of rebuilding a squad, within the hope of future success.
“We have obviously lost players over my time here, important players but I just feel that natural progression over the team is to come,” He stated.
“The current players here are very good players who have the chance to continue to develop but naturally, because of the situation we are in, with players out of contract over this next 18 months.
“There is going to be changes within the squad and, of course, I would love to be able to be in charge to see that through.
“That’s the excitement as a manager. You get new players with hunger and they improve the players you already have and they will strive to achieve themselves.
“So hopefully with my time here, I have shown we can have that level of success for a club our size and I’d love the chance to continue with that.”