- Leicester face Brighton on Sunday with the Foxes desperately in want of a win
- They fell to a dramatic 3-2 loss in opposition to Spurs final day trip, a blow to their season
- Brendan Rodgers has secured back-to-back fifth place finishes and an FA Cup
- Northern Irish boss fears that is pretty much as good because it will get for a membership with their funds
Brendan Rodgers has warned that Leicester Metropolis could have already reached their pinnacle as he tries to choose them up from their devastating defeat to Tottenham and reignite a European push.
The Leicester boss branded soccer the 'University of Adversity' after his aspect threw away a lead deep into stoppage time of their dramatic loss in midweek.
He should discover a method to encourage his injury-hit aspect to place disappointment behind them as they welcome Brighton to the King Energy Stadium this afternoon with the membership as near the relegation zone as they're to the highest seven.
Rodgers says he's nonetheless 'excited' for the problem of getting Leicester into Europe however admits that their two successive fifth-placed finishes and FA Cup triumph might be pretty much as good as they'll obtain with their funds in comparison with their rivals.
'We're not too removed from the place our funds is,' mentioned Rodgers. 'I've a dose of realism from after I got here in right here. I mentioned I needed to disrupt the market and we have now executed that. We have now gained issues - which is nice. Progress has been hampered slightly bit this season.
'With success, what happens is that you have two fifth-placed finishes and then you qualify for European football, people think you have created a foundation for success but for a club like ourselves, it may be the pinnacle. Because of resources and where others are at, it's very tough.
'People think we are not taking one of the big clubs in this country into the top five then there's huge sources to push it on. These gamers have been sensible in these final couple of seasons. If we're lacking gamers, then that's the place it's at. We're on par, as such.
'My job is to elevate us beyond that and push and that's what we have now at all times executed: win issues, play good soccer and convey younger gamers by way of. That's the imaginative and prescient because it was outlined. For me, it's to disrupt, preserve combating and all inside retaining the membership in a sustainable place.
'Whether or not that's success or failure, it's all in regards to the narrative. I do know the place we have now been and the place we're taking the membership. If expectation is there, that's nice as a result of it means we've achieved one thing.'
No aspect has suffered as many accidents as Leicester this season who're nonetheless lacking key gamers corresponding to Jamie Vardy, Jonny Evans and Wesley Fofana. Nonetheless, Rodgers was in a position to welcome again spectacular defender James Justin in opposition to Tottenham and the Leicester boss his hopeful their damage luck is about to show.
'It's been unlucky, if you take a look at all of the golf equipment and the accidents, It's been unlucky throughout the board,' mentioned Rodgers. 'We will get those guys back and really look to attack the second half of the season.'
The sentiments are nonetheless uncooked from their unimaginable defeat on Wednesday night time when Leicester led Spurs 2-1 with lower than 30 seconds to play and had a goal-kick, solely to lose 3-2 courtesy of a speedy double by substitute Steven Bergwijn.
'Football, like life, if you lose something that you have it can be very painful,' mentioned Rodgers. 'Clearly in the game we were in a great position, seconds away from what would have been a great result. Then we lost it. It is painful, it is suffering, because it is such a big blow for us.
'I said to the players that football is the University of Adversity. You learn to pick yourself up in football. If you don't, you're by no means going to push on. That's each coaches and gamers. If you end up on this sport, you already know it isn't an upward curve all the best way.
'The educational is that when the ache comes, and the struggling comes, that you simply react the precise approach. That's the reason I'm right here, to choose the gamers up, determine the place we might be higher.
'Naturally it does harm however that's the job and it's my accountability. I feel we have now proven within the time we have now been right here that we have now suffered we have now been in a position to get again up and struggle once more. That's what's essential.'
