‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

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‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

Gary Rowett wants Leicester City to embrace the pressure of the current situation, ahead of our final five-game run-in.

2026-04-11T07:30+01:00

by Sam Jones

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11 Apr, 2026

‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

Gary Rowett wants Leicester City to embrace the pressure of the current situation, ahead of our final five-game run-in.

Sam Jones

2026-04-11T07:30+01:00

‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

Gary Rowett wants Leicester City to embrace the pressure of the current situation, ahead of our final five-game run-in.

Sam Jones

2026-04-11T07:30+01:00

‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

Gary Rowett wants Leicester City to embrace the pressure of the current situation, ahead of our final five-game run-in.

Sam Jones

2026-04-11T07:30+01:00

‘Down To Mentality’ - Rowett Previews Swansea Clash

Gary Rowett wants Leicester City to embrace the pressure of the current situation, ahead of our final five-game run-in.

Sam Jones

2026-04-11T07:30+01:00

Swansea City are next on the agenda for the Foxes this Saturday, with the South Wales outfit heading to King Power Stadium for a 3pm BST kick-off.

Remaining 22nd in the Sky Bet Championship following the Easter weekend fixtures, there’s still plenty on the line heading into this encounter, which Rowett previewed with the media during his pre-match press conference on Thursday...

‘You look at everything’

Patson Daka scored twice in our last home fixture, against Preston.

More dilemmas may be posed in terms of team selection this weekend with the potential reintroduction of more members of the squad, and Rowett discussed how those decisions can be made in such a crucial period.

“Of course you look at everything at this stage of a season, all the options, you have to,” he expressed, speaking inside LCFC Training Ground. “We want to make sure there’s no stone left unturned.

“Experience is one thing, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to cope with games any better than the younger players can, because youth can also be great in this moment as they have not experienced it so there’s no real fear of anything.

“The biggest thing is that pressure is a privilege. Our pressure is different to other people’s pressures. You have to embrace that. Elite sport comes down to how you perform in the moments when you need to step up and perform.

“It comes down to mentality. You have to step up and not every team down there is going to be able to do that, so we have to make sure we’re certainly one of those teams who perform well enough collectively and individually to get the results.

“You’re trying to make decisions on it. There was a period where the guys did it with Asmir [Begovic] beforehand. There was certainly a period where Ben [Nelson] and Caleb [Okoli] were performing really well together and having made a change in there with Jamaal [Lascelles] coming back in, I thought Caleb’s performed really well.”

‘Finish those moments’

Jordan Ayew’s equaliser saw us take a point at Hillsborough.

The frustrations of only collecting two points from our previous two fixtures against Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday was not lost on Rowett, though he believes the tide will turn in terms of results, should we keep creating such a number of chances in games.

“Like any of the teams down there, we need to win games of football,” the 52-year-old admitted. “If I look at the nine games, it’s quite difficult to be massively critical in the last four or five games. I think we’ve actually performed quite well and created a lot of good chances. We’ve limited the opposition to very few chances.

“We have improved in both boxes but maybe there’s still that little bit there, that last little bit and that’s the frustration. We concede one corner against Sheffield Wednesday in a minute and a half and they score from it.

“We’ve created enough to win three or four games, like the Watford game and the Preston game. I believe if we continue to play like that, at some point, we have to be more clinical.

“The averages say you then win the games we need to win. That’s going to be the key and what it comes down to. I think we’re playing well but we need to finish off those moments that we’re creating.

“If we were struggling to get shots on goal and create chances then I’d be so worried and wondering how that’s going to come but at the moment it’s just taking one or two of those chances and we win the game comfortably, but we can’t quite manage to do that.

“You can’t just find those moments easily. You have to look at if you can create chances, first and foremost, and can we reduce the chances against us? I think we’ve done that. Ultimately, it comes down to individuals, you have to come up with that big moment.

“Jordan was incredibly clinical (against Sheffield Wednesday). You have to hope that the players step up in those moments. We have to make sure we practice it and recreate as many of those situations as we can, but ultimately, it’s not the same as a game.

“Both boxes are probably the hardest thing to coach. Sometimes that comes down to a bit of individual stubbornness at your defensive end and individual quality at the other end.

“We’re creating lots of those moments – over 50 shots in the last two games, over 20 shots on target, it is quite phenomenal to create that, but to come out of it with the goals we have is disappointing so that’s what we have to keep working on.”

‘A good side’

A fightback from the Swans earned a home draw with Middlesbrough on Monday.

Leicester are coming up against a very capable outfit in Swansea, the Manager assessed, with quality in attacking areas likely to cause a big threat, while their current standing of 15th in the division can not be taken lightly, despite the gap between either end of the table.

“I’ve seen quite a lot of them and played against them previously,” Rowett said, analysing the Swans. “They’re a good side. “With the manager, they’ve always been a possession-based team and I think they can mix it up a bit as well.

“They’re a mobile team who want to run and wants to move you around and they’ve got a striker in there who is the top scorer in the division. I think it will be a good footballing game.

“You have to look at every opponent and give them maximum respect. They’ve just shown some real resilience in their last game, scored goals, come back.

“Everyone is fighting for the same points and you have to presume every side has the same capabilities that they’ve shown all season and focus on a good game plan that gives you the best possible chance to win the game and that’s what we do with every team.

“I don’t see that changing between now and the end of the season depending on the position the teams are in. We know what they’re going to do and I think they’ll know what we’re going to do.

“It will be an entertaining game to watch, but hopefully we come out on the right side of those moments.

“If you looked at the last two games and said we need to get four to six points and we don’t do that, does that give you a negative mindset having not achieved it? You just have to go out in every game to create the maximum.

“That’s why, when I’m asked if this is a must-win, only the points tally at the end of the season will tell you that. You have to try to win and, if you don’t, you have to bounce back quickly and win the next one.

“The reality is that’s how you have to look at this stage of a season. It’s another opportunity to pick up three points. We’re aware, of course, there’s only five games to go. We can’t wait any longer before we pick up the points.

“I’m seeing a side fighting to try and win every game. We just haven’t quite had the clinical edge about us to try and do that in the final moments. That’s our focus really.”

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