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We Showed The Right Mentality, Says Rodgers

Leicester City’s resilience was a key factor in their 4-2 Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, according to Brendan Rodgers.

2021-10-28T10:19:19.890Z

by Sam Jones

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28 Oct, 2021

We Showed The Right Mentality, Says Rodgers

Leicester City’s resilience was a key factor in their 4-2 Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, according to Brendan Rodgers.

Sam Jones

2021-10-28T10:19:19.890Z

We Showed The Right Mentality, Says Rodgers

Leicester City’s resilience was a key factor in their 4-2 Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, according to Brendan Rodgers.

Sam Jones

2021-10-28T10:19:19.890Z

We Showed The Right Mentality, Says Rodgers

Leicester City’s resilience was a key factor in their 4-2 Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, according to Brendan Rodgers.

Sam Jones

2021-10-28T10:19:19.890Z

We Showed The Right Mentality, Says Rodgers

Leicester City’s resilience was a key factor in their 4-2 Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, according to Brendan Rodgers.

Sam Jones

2021-10-28T10:19:19.890Z

- The Foxes are through to the Carabao Cup Quarter-Finals after overcoming Brighton & Hove Albion- Brendan Rodgers’ side won 4-2 on penalties at King Power Stadium after a 2-2 draw in normal time- Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lookman scored, while Danny Ward saved a shootout spot-kick- The manager spoke of the mentality and spirit displayed by the team to progress

Danny Ward made the crucial save from Enock Mwepu’s spot-kick to seal Leicester’s spot in the quarter-finals and Rodgers was full of praise for the shot-stopper’s contribution to another cup success and the team's fourth successive triumph across all competitions.

He also commended first-half goalscorers Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lookman for playing their part at the top end of the pitch, before Barnes, James Maddison, Patson Daka and Ricardo Pereira all found the net in the shootout.

“He is a top class ‘keeper, I’ve always said that,” the Foxes manager commented. “I’ve got two no.1 ‘keepers here really and him coming in and making the save, he was close to one of the other ones as well.

“I see it in training every day and that was really nice for him to make the save at the end. “They were really good penalties and it was really good composure, so I’m delighted for the players.

“He did very well. Harvey [Barnes] has come in, he’s scored a goal, he looked a threat, he tired in the second half, but that’s all natural. Him and Ade (Ademola Lookman) both scored, they created opportunities and they were a threat, especially in that first 25 minutes of the game.

“I’m delighted for both boys, they’ve been unfortunate that the system has changed, but whenever you bring them in, they are coming in to do well and they both did that.”

After Barnes’ earlier opener, Adam Webster levelled just before the interval for Graham Potter’s side, but an even later first-half goal from Lookman regained Leicester’s advantage.

Although Mwepu restored parity once more in the second half, Rodgers was pleased with the character and spirit shown by the players who stepped in to the starting XI, both during the 90 minutes and subsequent spot-kicks.

The 48-year-old continued: “It was 2-1 and we could have gone to 3-1. The first goal we’re disappointed with. They had quite a big difference physically in the box so we had a bit of a mis-match there, but we coped fairly well with it in all fairness.

“That one was the only time that we didn’t and just to get pegged back was disappointed. However, to then get the goal straight after shows the mentality of the players.

“We have a mindset that when we do lose the ball or the opposition kick on, we try and get it back inside four passes and it’s just to keep us nice and aggressive.

“We’ve seen how when the press and try and win it, we get the chances to score and hope that the opposition maybe lose a little bit of concentration.

“We fatigued a little bit second half, we’d made a lot of changes and there were a few tired legs out there, but we showed great resilience again, great spirit and then when it mattered in the penalties we showed real good poise to get through.”

Rodgers made 10 changes to the team that defeated Brentford on Sunday and expects the busy fixture schedule to come into play once more when City compete in the last eight later this year, but also spoke of his desire to go as far into the competition as possible.

“In my first year here when we got to the semi-final, we didn’t have European football," the Northern Irishman explained. “We’re into the quarter-finals now and we want to do well in it. But of course, there always has to be a balance because we’re in so many competitions.

“The next round will come in December when there’s already a lot of games. We always try to send a team out that wants to win the game and we saw that tonight, even with 10 changes, the players showed a really good mentality.

“Now we’re three games from picking up a trophy so of course you would like to do that.”

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