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King: We Need To Be Better

Commending the fight shown in the 2-1 reverse at Birmingham City, Andy King says Leicester City must do more in games to avoid defeat.

2026-02-08T09:00+00:00

by Sam Jones

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08 Feb, 2026

King: We Need To Be Better

Commending the fight shown in the 2-1 reverse at Birmingham City, Andy King says Leicester City must do more in games to avoid defeat.

Sam Jones

2026-02-08T09:00+00:00

King: We Need To Be Better

Commending the fight shown in the 2-1 reverse at Birmingham City, Andy King says Leicester City must do more in games to avoid defeat.

Sam Jones

2026-02-08T09:00+00:00

King: We Need To Be Better

Commending the fight shown in the 2-1 reverse at Birmingham City, Andy King says Leicester City must do more in games to avoid defeat.

Sam Jones

2026-02-08T09:00+00:00

King: We Need To Be Better

Commending the fight shown in the 2-1 reverse at Birmingham City, Andy King says Leicester City must do more in games to avoid defeat.

Sam Jones

2026-02-08T09:00+00:00

We were beaten 2-1 by Birmingham City in the Sky Bet Championship
Saturday’s reverse was a third successive league defeat for the Foxes
First Team Coach Andy King provided his post-match thoughts at St. Andrew’s
He felt we gave ourselves a mountain to climb following the early goal and red card

The Foxes fell to defeat at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon, with Ibrahim Osman’s third-minute opener levelled in sensational fashion by Abdul Fatawu, before Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s red card left Leicester playing with 10 men for over an hour.

Holding out until the 67th minute, Jay Stansfield struck the crucial blow, his goal proving to be the winner for the home side, with Leicester losing a third consecutive Sky Bet Championship match. We now sit 21st in the table, above the bottom three on goal difference as things stand.

“[There’s] disappointment, of course, at losing another game, especially in the manner that we did it,” the First Team Coach assessed after full-time. “We need to stop giving ourselves a mountain to climb.

“You can do all the work and the prep and things are going well, but in-game we’re making it so difficult at the moment. We need to rectify it and put it right. The players know what’s happening.

“There’s some good things, there were some good performances but I’m never going to stand here after a loss and try and pull the wool over people’s eyes and say that there was loads of good stuff.”

While the reaction to conceding early pleased King, he believes the Foxes must work on cutting out errors which have led to recent defeats, while also outlining his thinking behind the half-time substitution.

“We needed to try and sure up the midfield a little bit,” the 43-year-old explained. “Being down to 10, we wanted a bit more control of the ball and [to] sure up the game if we could and just having another body in the middle of the pitch rather than an attacker, where they would have probably just opened us up and scored.

“Going two players up front, we still carried a bit of a threat. Nothing against Stephy [Mavididi], I thought he had a good first half, [it was] just one of those unfortunate situations for him.

“I was delighted with how they responded after a difficult start, going behind early. We grew into the game, scored a brilliant goal to equalise and you think ‘here we go’, and then we shoot ourselves in the foot again and we need to be better.

“Again in the second half, we’ve given everything, but it’s difficult in those situations. There’s no hiding and we’ve only got ourselves to blame. It makes it difficult. We couldn’t get the [second] goal today to equalise and it’s not what we wanted.”

Debutants Jamaal Lascelles and Joe Aribo were in from the off in Birmingham, while Divine Mukasa and Dujuan Richards also made their Leicester bows from the bench, offering extra options in attacking areas for King to utilise.

“I thought the new players who came in did really well,” he added. “We needed a few extra bodies after Charlton. We were very young out there and you saw the lads who came in today had a positive impact on the group.

“I’m sure they will have that moving forward and will push the players already here to raise their level as well and we can all move forward as a club. I’ve spoken for many years about how good these supporters are with me, with the team, with everyone.

“That won’t change and we need them more than ever in this period, but they were outstanding, their support for me has been outstanding and I’m really grateful for that.”

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