There’s no feeling sorry for ourselves, says Craig Shakespeare

Following Leicester City’s fourth Premier League defeat of the season, manager Craig Shakespeare reckons it’s not the time to sit back and feel sorry.

Leicester City began the week, beating Liverpool 2-0 (Carabao Cup) in the first of their two meetings with the Reds at the King Power Stadium.

Hoping to carry their cup form into the league, Leicester, however, could only manage another narrow defeat, as Liverpool just about picked up all three points in a mad 2-3 encounter in the East Midlands.

Jurgen Klopp’s side opened the scoring through Mohamed Salah before Phillipe Coutinho, who had assisted the first, doubled the lead with a stunning free-kick.

Shinji Okazaki pulled one back just before half-time, giving his side some hope of a second-half comeback; however, an error by Harry Maguire proved too costly again, as Jordan Henderson made it 3-1.

What followed was a helter-skelter ten-minute spell as Jamie Vardy made it 2-3, paving way for another twist in the game. Indeed, there could have been a twist when the hosts got a penalty, but Vardy couldn’t manage to convert from the spot. Unfortunate.

Speaking after the game, Craig Shakespeare stressed on the importance of not sitting back and lamenting an agonising defeat. He said:

"“We knew the start we had in terms of the four big teams in the first six games,” said Shakespeare.“We knew it would be challenging but we were looking forward to that challenge.“We have to make sure that some of the performances we turn into points, but it is a really big game at Bournemouth next week.“We have to dust ourselves down this week. There is no feeling sorry for ourselves. We have to get back to work and try to put more points on the table.“It is mixed emotions. You sit here and have no points and I have been told by a lot of people how we have contributed to a great game but as a manager it doesn’t mean anything to you because the players will be in there now feeling very disappointed not to come away with something.“You have to realise you are playing against some quality opposition. The intention from the start was to play with high intensity. We all know in football it will ebb and flow and the momentum changes.“It was important when we went 2-0 down to get a goal back and getting the players in at half time we said ‘right, we need a big 15 minutes now and we need to test them defensively.’“We wanted to ask questions of them, put balls in the box and make their defenders turn and face their own goal. I felt we did that. Ultimately because we were searching for that second goal we left ourselves too open.“The third goal, it was always going to be hard to come back from that. But we tried and we could have got a point in the end.”"

Leicester City now face the difficult task of somehow trying to get out of the relegation zone first, where they have been sitting right from the start of the season.

They next face AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium before coming up against West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City. That’s nine points right there, Shakey.