Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Next Match | Saturday 18 April Sat 18 Apr

POR

(A)

01 D

09 H

59 M

59 S

Interviews & Features

Heritage

Photos

Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Defender Jannik Vestergaard says Leicester City’s players must retain belief as we look to repair our Premier League form and climb the table.

2025-01-25T09:00+00:00

by Sam Stevens

Published

25 Jan, 2025

from LCFC Training Ground

Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Defender Jannik Vestergaard says Leicester City’s players must retain belief as we look to repair our Premier League form and climb the table.

Sam Stevens

2025-01-25T09:00+00:00

Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Defender Jannik Vestergaard says Leicester City’s players must retain belief as we look to repair our Premier League form and climb the table.

Sam Stevens

2025-01-25T09:00+00:00

Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Defender Jannik Vestergaard says Leicester City’s players must retain belief as we look to repair our Premier League form and climb the table.

Sam Stevens

2025-01-25T09:00+00:00

Vestergaard: Keep Believing In Ourselves & Each Other

Defender Jannik Vestergaard says Leicester City’s players must retain belief as we look to repair our Premier League form and climb the table.

Sam Stevens

2025-01-25T09:00+00:00

Jannik Vestergaard has previewed our visit to Tottenham Hotspur
Leicester City take on Spurs in north London on Sunday (2pm GMT kick-off)
The Dane has pointed to the importance of self-belief in the run-up to that fixture

The Foxes are 19th in the Premier League and, although we’re currently on a seven-game losing streak, the gap to safety remains just two points. It’s been a deeply frustrating run, but still being within touch of the sides around us, the time is now to get points.

A trip to Tottenham Hotspur is the next opportunity to do so, and Vestergaard spoke this week about the importance of isolating why City haven’t been able to secure victories, but also the need to focus on the positives to get us back to winning ways.

“Although we haven’t rewarded ourselves, I feel like we have had a development,” the Denmark centre-back said in Seagrave. “I think we have progressed from just before Christmas.

“We had some good performances that haven’t given us any points, but we have steadily been improving. The two home games were disappointing, especially in terms of the outcome, but also in our ability to play well for 90 minutes and not only in spells.

“A lot of our focus is mentally, to be ready and able to play 90 competitive minutes. We’ve been in the games at half-time and, in all of them, apart from Wolves at home.

“Apart from that we’ve been competing and, in some cases, we can tell ourselves we’ve been better than the opponent but haven’t rewarded ourselves.

“That’s been the main focal point for us, that we perform over 90 minutes, and we take our chances when we get them, not being as vulnerable to concede what we consider to be easy goals.

Jannik Vestergaard pointed to spells in City's performances which can be a source of positivity.

“We’re fully aware of our situation and we’re doing everything we can to get out. Some of the games are also a little bit the case of chasing luck.

“If we get the goal, I think we’ll get the confidence we quite desperately need in phases like these, where we have shown a little bit of fragility. That’s the main bit: that we keep believing in ourselves and each other.

“That luck can hopefully turn as long as we keep working and keep doing the things which also have been working for us.”

Spurs themselves are five games without a Premier League victory and have slipped to 15th in the table, but Vestergaard says we’ll be focusing on ourselves in north London.

Locking our sights on our own fortunes, the need for three points, is the only way to leave the capital with something, he insists.

“We’re hungry for it,” the 32-year-old added. “There’s a lot of frustration in the dressing room with the lack of wins. We’re desperate to get that winning feeling.

“We don’t focus on what other teams are going through. We want to go to Tottenham and take something. Whatever that might be, we’ll see, but we’re definitely going there with the desire to take something back home.”

LATEST HEADLINES

Rowett: James & Ramsey Assessed Pre-Pompey Gary Rowett revealed that Jordan James and Aaron Ramsey are being monitored prior to our trip to Portsmouth.

11 Hours 55 Mins Ago

Pompey Clash Live On Foxes Hub We're at Fratton Park this Saturday lunchtime - here's how to follow the action across Foxes Hub.

13 Hours Ago

McSweeney ‘Really Pleased’ With Leeds Triumph Leon McSweeney believes our Under-21s were rewarded for a high level of performance produced during the 3-2 success over Leeds United on Monday.

15 Apr, 2026

Foxes On Target In World Cup Qualifiers Hannah Cain and Sari Kees both netted in recent FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualifiers, while Emily van Egmond scored for Australia.

15 Apr, 2026