Rodgers: We’re Motivated To Achieve Our Objective

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted Tuesday’s game at home to Brighton & Hove Albion will be a very strange atmosphere without the Blue Army present, but says his team will be doing everything they can to make Foxes supporters proud.

2020-06-23T06:19:00.000Z

by Sam Jones

Published

23 Jun, 2020

Rodgers: We’re Motivated To Achieve Our Objective

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted Tuesday’s game at home to Brighton & Hove Albion will be a very strange atmosphere without the Blue Army present, but says his team will be doing everything they can to make Foxes supporters proud.

Sam Jones

2020-06-23T06:19:00.000Z

Rodgers: We’re Motivated To Achieve Our Objective

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted Tuesday’s game at home to Brighton & Hove Albion will be a very strange atmosphere without the Blue Army present, but says his team will be doing everything they can to make Foxes supporters proud.

Sam Jones

2020-06-23T06:19:00.000Z

Rodgers: We’re Motivated To Achieve Our Objective

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted Tuesday’s game at home to Brighton & Hove Albion will be a very strange atmosphere without the Blue Army present, but says his team will be doing everything they can to make Foxes supporters proud.

Sam Jones

2020-06-23T06:19:00.000Z

Rodgers: We’re Motivated To Achieve Our Objective

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted Tuesday’s game at home to Brighton & Hove Albion will be a very strange atmosphere without the Blue Army present, but says his team will be doing everything they can to make Foxes supporters proud.

Sam Jones

2020-06-23T06:19:00.000Z

_- Leicester City return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday for the visit of Brighton (6pm kick-off)- There will be supporters present for the remainder of the season to protect the safety of players, staff and fans_- Rodgers says his side are fully focussed on getting all three points against the Seagulls - The Northern Irishman believes Graham Potter’s side will pose a tough test for the Foxes

Speaking in his virtual pre-match press conference at the Club’s training ground on Monday, Rodgers is adamant there will be no let up in City's quest to achieve a positive finish to the Premier League season.

City’s game against Brighton (6pm kick-off) will be the first to take place behind closed doors at King Power Stadium and is available to watch live on Sky Sports, while LCFC TV will be on air from 5pm.

“If you watch the games since it started, the focus of all the players has been first-class and they are trying to give everything to get results,” Rodgers said.

“When there’s still so much at stake, you can still feel the edge in the game, it’s still frantic. Although there are no supporters, from a football perspective, there is a lot of intensity.

“Especially at Leicester, where the crowd is so important for us and have been absolutely brilliant, we just have to deal with that and look to get the results that we need.

“It’s an important game [against Brighton], but they’re all important. We got off to a decent start with a decent performance at the weekend, now we get a chance to play at home and pick up the three points, which is what we want, but we have to be hungry and motivated for that.

"You can only look at your next game and hope to perform in that. We know what our objective is, we have eight games to go and we’re going to give it everything we possibly can to finish there.

“There’s still so much football to play but we’re not going to get saturated by that. We have to enjoy the football that is left, focus very much on our performance and how we play.”

Reflecting on his side’s return to action at Vicarage Road, which ended in a 1-1 draw after Craig Dawson’s injury-time goal cancelled out Ben Chilwell’s late opener, Rodgers said: “I don’t think there’s any team that, after having so long off, will be right at the top of their game like what it may have been earlier on in the season.

"But I was really pleased with the fitness levels of the players. As the game grew in the second-half, the intensity of our game was still there, the running ability was still there, so I was pleased with that aspect.

“And of course that got us in front late on in the game, so it felt like a defeat when you concede so late on and the manner of it. We just have to be better in that situation going forward, it was nearly three points but we take the point and learn from it.

“There were a lot of good aspects, our rhythm will get better and we want it to come back as quickly as we can and we’ve proven that when we play well, in the main, we win games, so nothing has changed.

“Our job is to focus on ourselves and look forward and I’m always optimistic that we’ll improve and develop and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”

The City manager has been impressed with what he has seen of Brighton, who picked up what could be a vital victory in their fight to avoid the drop, at home to Arsenal on Saturday.

“I admire how they work and their football idea is very good - they want to control the game, they want to have the ball, they want to work hard when they haven’t got the ball, and their good players are a threat,” Rodgers continued.

“To come from behind and score a very good goal, they will be pleased with that. It's an important three points for them and they’ll look to take that confidence into our game.

“In the last 10 games of the season, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing, there will always be tough games for different reasons. Brighton will be fighting but we have to show that fight and resilience and quality for ourselves.”

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