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Skipp: We Need To Show More

An improved second half display against Sheffield United is the level required throughout the 90 minutes, according to Oliver Skipp.

2025-12-01T11:00+00:00

by Sam Jones

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01 Dec, 2025

Skipp: We Need To Show More

An improved second half display against Sheffield United is the level required throughout the 90 minutes, according to Oliver Skipp.

Sam Jones

2025-12-01T11:00+00:00

Skipp: We Need To Show More

An improved second half display against Sheffield United is the level required throughout the 90 minutes, according to Oliver Skipp.

Sam Jones

2025-12-01T11:00+00:00

Skipp: We Need To Show More

An improved second half display against Sheffield United is the level required throughout the 90 minutes, according to Oliver Skipp.

Sam Jones

2025-12-01T11:00+00:00

Skipp: We Need To Show More

An improved second half display against Sheffield United is the level required throughout the 90 minutes, according to Oliver Skipp.

Sam Jones

2025-12-01T11:00+00:00

Leicester City were beaten 3-2 by Sheffield United on Saturday
Stephy Mavididi and Jordan James scored in the home defeat
Substitute Oliver Skipp reflected on a poor start to the game
The subsequent improvement wasn’t enough to overturn a three-goal deficit

Speaking in the wake of Saturday’s 3-2 defeat to the Blades, which saw us trail by three inside 32 minutes before recovering to score twice after the break and press for another, the midfielder admitted it was simply not good enough in the opening stages on Filbert Way.

Coming just four days after the 3-0 reverse at Southampton, it’s been a frustrating week of results, leaving us 16th in the Sky Bet Championship.

“There’s just a feeling of disappointment,” Skipp commented after the final whistle at King Power Stadium. “Especially with going 3-0 down at home, that can’t happen in any game, especially after Southampton, when the same happened.

“I think we all knew it was unacceptable, and we can’t start like that in any game.”

Introduced as a half-time substitute for the injured Wout Faes, the 25-year-old slotted in at centre-back. A composed figure who kept the visitors at bay, the whole team showed the fighting spirit which was required from the outset.

“I played there a bit when I was a child, but I stopped growing so I moved to midfield,” the former Tottenham Hotspur man said on his positional change. “When I came on, I felt like there was nothing to lose in that game. Anything to help the team hopefully get back into the game and we did that.

“You can look at the positives from that and we know we need to have more performances like the second half, but the overriding feeling in the group is disappointment. We’re still really disappointed with the result.”

Goals from Stephy Mavididi and later Jordan James had the Foxes on the hunt for an unlikely equaliser, and while it was a more promising half of football, there’s plenty more progress still to be made ahead of travelling to face Derby County on Saturday.

“I don’t think we can get carried away with the second half,” Skipp added. “You can say that we got back into it, but we gave ourselves way too much to do and too big of a mountain to climb, especially against a team who have been in good form and have confidence.

“We were pushing in the second half, you could see that. They didn’t create anything and we were the team who were dominant on the pitch, but it’s hard to come back from three goals down in any game.

“There are two ways to go about it. Either we fold or we try and get back in the game and we did that. Ultimately, we can’t say that was enough because we’ve lost.”

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