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Matchday With The Manager: Two Years At Leicester City & Tackling Arsenal

Speaking on the two-year anniversary of his appointment at King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a period of sustained improvement as Leicester City look to challenge for honours.

2021-02-28T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Two Years At Leicester City & Tackling Arsenal

Speaking on the two-year anniversary of his appointment at King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a period of sustained improvement as Leicester City look to challenge for honours.

2021-02-28T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Two Years At Leicester City & Tackling Arsenal

Speaking on the two-year anniversary of his appointment at King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a period of sustained improvement as Leicester City look to challenge for honours.

2021-02-28T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Two Years At Leicester City & Tackling Arsenal

Speaking on the two-year anniversary of his appointment at King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a period of sustained improvement as Leicester City look to challenge for honours.

2021-02-28T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Two Years At Leicester City & Tackling Arsenal

Speaking on the two-year anniversary of his appointment at King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers reflected on a period of sustained improvement as Leicester City look to challenge for honours.

2021-02-28T07:00:00.000Z

In February 2019, former Liverpool and Celtic manager Rodgers took over a Foxes outfit which had lost four consecutive home games for the first time in 19 years and was sat 12th in the top-flight standings.

Today, however, Leicester are third in the Premier League table, following the Club's second best Premier League finish last season, and have occupied a place in the top four throughout the 2020/21 campaign.

As well as exciting developments off the pitch, including City's move to LCFC Training Ground in Seagrave, a squad has been built around a core of talented internationals with immeasurable potential to improve.

Despite speaking in the wake of his side's exit from the UEFA Europa League less than 24 hours earlier, Rodgers believes that progress is evident to everyone and he spoke with excitement about the future at King Power Stadium.

Asked to describe his 24 months in charge of the Foxes so far, the 48-year-old said on Friday: "Very enjoyable, it’s as simple as that.

"I left a great club in Celtic to come here for the challenge of looking to establish Leicester City as a team that could compete for the top places in this division. It’s been thoroughly enjoyable. I’ve had amazing support from the players here since we came in because that’s always a big challenge.

"First and foremost, when you come into a club, it’s about convincing the players to play how you want them to and to create a working environment with a standard and a mentality to win consistently.

"It’s flown by. It doesn’t feel like two years ago, but I sit here today really happy with how we’ve worked and really excited by the future of the Club, on and off the pitch, that we can continue to develop."

Mikel Arteta's 11th-placed Arsenal are next up on Filbert Way on Sunday (12pm GMT kick-off) and, while Leicester have only suffered defeat twice in their last seven meetings, Rodgers is fully aware of the nature of the challenge the Gunners will pose.

"Like a lot of teams, they’ve had a lot of really good moments and then you can go through a period of inconsistency, but sometimes that aligns with availability of players," the Northern Irishman explained.

"I think [Arteta's] done very, very well. There’s always an expectation and a pressure at a club like Arsenal, especially in your first job as a manager.

"It’s a real challenge for you, but I think Mikel’s coped with that and adapted really well. He’s got an outstanding group of players and he’ll look to continue progressing them.

"The longer he has there, I’m pretty sure he will do that."

Hitting back from Thursday's 2-0 defeat by Slavia Prague is the only focus for Rodgers now as City look to make it 16 wins in 26 league outings across a 2020/21 season which is becoming one to savour for the Blue Army.

"We will go into the game and give it absolutely everything we can," he continued. "For us, the disappointment last night (Thursday) was that the game probably came at the wrong time for us, with where the squad is at in terms of the injuries that we’ve got.

"We don’t have the depth of squad that some of the other teams will have. My players have done brilliant up until this point. We’ve had a lot of injuries this season, but we’ve been able to get on with it.

"The games in the Europa League just came at the wrong time with so many key players missing for us. That’s unfortunate, but we’ll learn from that and hopefully, next year, we arrive in European competition again and take the next step, which is what we want to do.

"It was our first year in the Europa League as a club, so let’s see if we can improve on that. What does it mean for this weekend? We’ll look to respond."

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