Enzo Maresca identifies key Leicester City area for improvement
Latest Leicester City news as August’s Championship manager of the month after winning his first six games as City boss still wants to get better
Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca has identified the final third as an area for his team to improve over the season following a positive start to the campaign.
City won their first six outings in all competitions under the Italian, but tasted defeat for the first time this season in the game before the international break. Liam Delap’s first-half goal gave Hull City a 1-0 win at the King Power Stadium, with City unable to break down their opponents to equalise.
New signing Abdul Fatuwu came closest to drawing City level, but saw his shot bounce back off the base of a post shortly after entering the pitch as a second-half substitute. City had other chances through Cesare Casadei and Jamie Vardy.
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All of City’s wins in the league this season have been by one goal, and it’s the attacking part of the pitch that Maresca has said he is looking to improve over the campaign.
“There are many things to do, for sure, probably in the last third we need to improve and to add things,” he told FoxesHub , after being named as August’s Championship manager of the month. “Our seven official game, they all show that we arrive quite easy in the last third, then probably because of the choice, or because we want to finish the action soon, probably we are wrong in some choices.
“But even there, when we arrive there, we need to be patient to find the right solution. It is something that, for sure, we are going to improve.”
Maresca has had some extra time to work with his non-international players over the international break. Players who are currently on international duty will return to the squad in the upcoming week.
City are back in action on Friday night when they take on fellow relegated side Southampton. The Saints also fell to defeat before the international break, losing 5-0 vs Sunderland.
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