Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca has urged his side to be consistent as they continue to extend their lead at the top of the Championship table.It would take a massive collapse for the Foxes to end their nightmare season, especially with that thunderous display at the bet365 Stadium where they ran past Stoke City with five unanswered goals.The manager refuses to take the run lightly because he knows there is still a lot of hard work to finish the season as champions.He explained:
“According to the performance of the players, I thought the first half hour was incredible..- And then in the second half we started again in the same way and it was a good day with a clean sheet, so I’m very satisfied. We found many solutions and it was because they played in the game exactly as we expected..”The problem is when you expect one thing and when the game starts it’
s played differently, so you have to adapt, you have to adapt and it takes time.””Right now it’s important to win games, I think we’re in the last part of the season so we have to be consistent and then probably game by game we’ll see where we are and hopefully we’ll reach our goal.”That’s how we play, sometimes it looks like the other one is moving, but we just wait a moment and then we attack with the ball, but we also defend when we have the ball.”.For the critics – I would say only one thing – after last year’s disaster, promotion by all possible means is the only priority. A club with a successful sustainable future has too much riding on it. So bashing the team if there’s the odd setback or if you think we’re a bit slow is self-limiting and doesn’t take into account how far we’ve come in 6 months. Leaving the West Ham game last year, one can only dream of a season. Who in their right mind thinks criticizing a team’s play is justified or fair?
Maybe the last few years have made some fans forget who we are. We will never have the fan base of the mega clubs, but we can compete if we are smart about recruiting, training and managing the club. The fans need to appreciate their role – we are not customers who can go their own way – we have loyalty and a sense of belonging to the city – if we use that to overcome our little annoyances, we will go a long way..
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