Gary Rowett loses his cool after Leicester bottle golden opportunity to win

Gary Rowett often cuts a cool and assured figure from the sidelines, as a manager who is well-versed in the trials and tribulations of the Championship.

The pressures of the Leicester job are currently taking their toll, though, with the experienced boss - who has overseen 427 second tier games across his career to date - no doubt left exasperated at his team's lack of cutting edge at Sheffield Wednesday on Easter Monday.

With only one win next to his name from eight games, heading into this trip to the bottom-of-the-league hosts, this should have been viewed as a golden opportunity to break the hoodoo.

Instead, it just reaffirmed everyone's worries that the former Premier League winners aren't cut out for a basement battle in the Championship, as a wasteful performance passed them by, in a demoralising 1-1 draw.

Registering 17 shots, to Wednesday's three, Leicester did end up facing a formidable opponent in Pierce Charles, who pulled off several fantastic saves, to irritate the Foxes personnel, all dressed in their changed strip of pink.

Thankfully, they'll be back on home soil next to face Swansea City, with the King Power the setting for Rowett's only win in charge so far, as Leicester comfortably beat Bristol City 2-0 in early March, before they called upon Roy Hodgson.

The Leicester players will know they need to up their performance levels, ahead of this crucial showdown with the Swans, as Rowett didn't hold back with his thoughts on the unwanted draw at Wednesday, in his post-match musings.

Rowett's explosive post-match comments

While the Leicester attackers took a lot of the pelters at the end of the disappointing clash, the Foxes defenders also switched off right at the start, to allow Jerry Yates to prod home.

Barely 90 seconds had been played before Hillsborough erupted, as the former Blackpool marksman silenced the away support.

In Rowett's eyes, this was a "ridiculous" way to start the game, as Leicester ended up being on the back-foot, searching for a elusive equaliser, from that moment on.

He said: "It’s hugely frustrating. What you can’t do is give them a lift. And what we do is give them a lift after a minute and a half. It’s quite ridiculous to be honest.

“It was more or less the first time they put the ball in the box. They land on it, they score, they’re a bit more aggressive to get to the ball. I’ve said it before, that’s been a huge problem for us.

“Then it allows them to sit in at 5-4-1, it allows them to block it up, it allows them to be quite defensive but do it quite well.

Further lamenting the fact his side spurned "five or six incredible chances", as Charles put in an inspired showing, the pressures of the job at hand certainly look to be getting to the unusually impassioned manager.

With Jordan James unlikely to be fit for this tense match-up to come, versus Vitor Matos' men, Leicester could well fall victim to another flat display in attack.

Rowett would surely lose his cool, even more, if the Midlands titans slipped up - yet again - in their mission to seal a much-needed win, as pivotal matches just keep coming their way.