 October 29, 2022 He said: 'f they go out there and start playing like they did in the last part of the game then it's probably 3-0 before half time most times because there be open bigger spaces for City to run into and opportunities to punish them.' Rodgers, meanwhile, was proud of his side's efforts but claimed they lacked belief in the closing stages when they did manage to engineer goalscoring opportunities. He said: 'The players carried out the gameplan as well as we could have asked them to. You have to still be in the game with 20 minutes to go. Defensively we were very, very good but we lacked belief at times and that let us down. 'We had good chances in the game and we were unfortunate not to nick something. You have to concede that you are playing arguably the best team in the){kind=link}
James Maddison defended Leicester’s tactical approach against Manchester City after the England international was confronted by Pep Guardiola at the end of Saturday’s Premier League clash.
The champions leapfrogged Arsenal and returned to the summit after earning a hard fought 1-0 win over the relegation threatened Foxes thanks to Kevin de Bruyne’s masterful second half free kick.
Brendan Rodgers’ side employed a safety first approach until the closing stages of the game when they began to threaten City’s goal and came close to scoring an equaliser on several occasions.
After the game, Guardiola was seen deep in conversation with Maddison and questioned why the home team didn’t show more ambition from the outstet.
Asked what he and Guardiola were conversing about, Maddison said: ‘He was asking why we didn’t play like the last 15 minutes for the whole game.