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Rodgers' Pride & Fofana's Qualities

Brendan Rodgers reflected on a job well done by Leicester City after the 1-0 away victory over Arsenal on Sunday evening.

2020-10-26T10:16:00.086Z

by Sam Jones

Published

26 Oct, 2020

Rodgers' Pride & Fofana's Qualities

Brendan Rodgers reflected on a job well done by Leicester City after the 1-0 away victory over Arsenal on Sunday evening.

Sam Jones

2020-10-26T10:16:00.086Z

Rodgers' Pride & Fofana's Qualities

Brendan Rodgers reflected on a job well done by Leicester City after the 1-0 away victory over Arsenal on Sunday evening.

Sam Jones

2020-10-26T10:16:00.086Z

Rodgers' Pride & Fofana's Qualities

Brendan Rodgers reflected on a job well done by Leicester City after the 1-0 away victory over Arsenal on Sunday evening.

Sam Jones

2020-10-26T10:16:00.086Z

Rodgers' Pride & Fofana's Qualities

Brendan Rodgers reflected on a job well done by Leicester City after the 1-0 away victory over Arsenal on Sunday evening.

Sam Jones

2020-10-26T10:16:00.086Z

- Manager Brendan Rodgers speaks about breaking Leicester City's Arsenal away winless run- He also talks Wesley Fofana and the impact the centre-back has made at the Club- City have kept two clean sheets in a row with Fofana in the defence

The Foxes recorded a first win at the Gunners' home since 1973 thanks to substitute Jamie Vardy's late header, adding to Thursday's UEFA Europa League success over Zorya Luhansk.

While City's manager was proud to break the long standing record, he admitted it would have been even sweeter had the travelling Blue Army been present to witness it in person.

The result moves Leicester back up to fourth in the early Premier League standings, but now attention will quickly turn to another Europa League fixture on Thursday, away to AEK Athens (5:55pm GMT kick-off).

"I'm very proud and I also know it's a long time (since Leicester won at Arsenal) because it's the year I was born so it's 47 years, which is a very long time!" Rodgers joked after the game.

"I'm delighted for the supporters at home watching that, they'll be over the moon, it's a pity they weren't here but I'm sure they'll be very proud of their team and I'm delighted for them.

"This is the schedule. We've got to recover now and we'll get ready for that game (vs. AEK Athens) which is in an important tournament."

Rodgers reserved praise for his summer signing, centre-back Wesley Fofana, who helped City to keep a second clean sheet of the week after the shutout against Luhansk on Thursday night.

He explained: "For a boy of 19 years of age, it's why we worked so hard to get him in, but he's come into a developing team, he's going to make mistakes.

"At times he stays on the ball a bit too long, he can get his pass off earlier, and sometimes he just gets a fraction too tight, but I like my defenders to be able to defend forward and jump forward.

"That's just going to come with experience and [a knowledge of] when to be full pressing and when to be three quarter press."

The France Under-21 international impressed his manager with another solid defensive display, highlighting how quickly he has adapted to life in the English game.

"He's got so many natural attributes and, physically, he's a big boy, he's great in the air, strong, quick, he'll never get bullied as a centre-half, so his profile is perfect for the British game," Rodgers added.

"And then what you see is that he can play. He takes the ball, the way he passes, he can step in with the ball and he can play short and longer passes, so it's great.

"But like with many young players, they'll have moments in their careers where they'll dip, he's playing a lot of high intensity games, he's playing consecutively but he's a big talent and one that's only going to get better."

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