Brendan Rodgers has remedy to end recent negative results: Leicester

With West Ham United away on Saturday and no win in three matches, it appears Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers may already have a remedy.

Losing to Manchester City along with Liverpool is not the end of the world for Leicester City. Neither is drawing with sure relegation candidates, Norwich City. Though the wheels haven’t flown from the Foxes’ runaway train of unexpected marvel, they have slowed the relentless pace.

Because of the Citizens’ faltering ways presently as well as ‘genius’ Pep Guardiola failing to realise he needed a new centre-back’s seven months ago, Leicester found themselves sandwiched into a title contest they hadn’t anticipated. That is not to say that Brendan Rodgers isn’t a decisive factor in this season’s overachieving: an influence so immeasurable it even overreached past his own intentions, to be perfectly honest.

However as normalcy and realism has begun to rear its boring head once more, Foxes of Leicester ponders how Rodgers can actually attain Premier League second in 2019/20.

Maintaining Leicester City progress

It seems Rodgers has the remedies already: with the Northern Irishman stating before the disastrous display versus the Reds this inspiring short quote. In the pre-match press conference for the Liverpool meeting, Rodgers was asked, “how do you coach courage?”:

"“Our job is to help the players go into each game and maximise their talent.“It’s ensuring the mentality of the team, having the confidence to play our game and not being trapped by what everybody says about us.”– Brendan RodgersVia: Leicester Mercury"

The nugget of significance, as FoL sees it, is the part when Rodgers references “the confidence to play their own game”. We feel that an overawed feeling encapsulated the players in the Liverpool defeat. And that adroit, intrepid nature is the East Midlanders’ special tonic.

But can we as a society, even, teach fearlessness? Sadly, not.

With hindsight there were probably mistakes made versus the Merseyside club, as Jurgen Klopp’s team demolished Leicester: approach, with regards to constant harrying, was missing. Unfortunately the King Power side didn’t give a fair reflection of their quality, expertise and diligence.

In fact, having not made many errors at all this term, Rodgers himself got quite a few aspects of his tactics wrong against the premiership leaders. With the more worrying factor being that problems weren’t identified and rectified in-game: Harvey Barnes and Youri Tielemans’ poor form, plus a rotation deficiency, James Maddison being wasted as a winger and allowing Trent Alexander-Arnold roaming space. Not to mention the defensive issues, like inefficient playing out from the back. Let’s hope it drastically swings in the Hammers contest.