Enzo Maresca tells Mads Hermansen where he made mistake as Leicester City suffer confidence dip
The Leicester City manager analyses Blackburn’s goal, scored by Sammie Szmodics after Hermansen’s goal-kick to Harry Winks was intercepted by Rovers’ high press
Leicester City goalkeeper Mads Hermansen will repeat the mistake he made at Blackburn but manager Enzo Maresca hopes that his side will brush it off more easily next time.
City conceded at Ewood Park when a short goal-kick was picked off and Maresca did not try to absolve Hermansen of blame. He said he should have passed to somebody other than Harry Winks.
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“For the goal kick, probably because of the goal we conceded, we lost confidence,” Maresca said. “In that goal, the mistake from Mads is not because he plays. He has to play. But he has the choice.
“He should not play with Harry. He has to take a different decision. At the end, we need to learn, it’s normal.
“It’s going to happen again, no doubt. If you see Brighton two weeks ago, they concede like this. Last year with (Manchester) City, we conceded the same goal. When you want to play from the back, you have to take risks and it doesn’t matter, we keep it going.
The goal we conceded, we lost confidence during the whole game. They are aggressive so when you have to repeat again, probably you have some doubts.
“Mads continued to play which is a good signal. It means we have good personality. Jannik (Vestergaard) continued, Wout (Faes) continued. This is the way we want to play. So I’m very happy with the personality we showed today but especially the way we faced this very difficult team.”
Despite conceding inside the first 10 minutes, City still managed to restrict Blackburn to just one goal. They have still not conceded more than once in the same Championship game, with their tally of six goals against the fewest in the division.
