Thursday, November 21, 2024

Leicester boss  Rodgers Concedes Blame For Foxes' Europa League Exit 


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  Leicester boss  Rodgers Concedes Blame For Foxes' Europa League Exit By Admin Brendan Rodgers accepts blame for Leicester's tame Europa League exit at home to Slavia Prague after starting in-form Harvey Barnes on the bench and playing Youri Tielemans out of position. Second-half goals from Lukas Provod and Abdallah Sima helped Slavia deservedly win 2-0 on the night and on aggregate to reach the last 16. Rodgers, who was missing the injured James Maddison and banned Kelechi Iheanacho, started with 13-goal Harvey Barnes on the bench with Youri Tielemans in a more advanced position but admitted his decisions failed to pay off. He said: 'It's my responsibility, I pick the team with the players we have available and clearly it didn't work as well as I would have liked. 'We have changed the team often enough through the season because we've carried injuries all year. The players are coming back from injury, we had to find a way to freshen up the team. 'Overall, they were better than us and deserved to go through. We have to go away and learn from that. 'We started pretty well, we had to be patient, but we never really created too many opportunities. I'm disappointed with the goals, in particular the second one - we have to defend with greater urgency. 'It's disappointing but I said to the players afterwards we have to learn from it. We can accept it a lot easier as we weren't good enough on the night and over the two legs. 'We'll get back in, move on and we've enjoyed the European experience and we want to fight this year and be better next year.' Rodgers was appointed Leicester boss two years ago on Friday but it was an unhappy anniversary for a manager who has never reached the last 16 of the competition in five attempts.
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Award winning journalist, Niyi Busari, the Publisher and CEO of BSN Sports Concepts is one of the most celebrated Nigerian sports journalist of his generation. A"cross-over" professional, he combines the talents and abilities of a print and electronic journalist in a manner that is rare, even though his specialization is print. A graduate of Economics from the University of Abuja where he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 2015.

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