Rodgers revels in response to Leicester’s ‘social distancing’

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Brendan Rodgers felt that Leicester was too ‘socially distant’ in the first half of his 2-0 win over Southampton.

Strikes by James Maddison and Harvey Barnes sent the Foxes second in the Premier League after an entertaining encounter at an impressive pace in front of the empty stands at King Power Stadium.

But Rodgers was not impressed with his team’s performance in the early stages.

He told BT Sport: “It was a great victory for us. I thought the first 25 minutes we were distancing ourselves socially, we never got within two meters of them. Too passive, not aggressive enough, which is actually different from us.

“But then we started to push the game much better and that allowed us to sustain the attacks a bit longer and we get the first goal from that. It was a brilliant ending for James.

“In the second half we were much, much better. We were aggressive, we counterattacked better and we should have scored more than two goals. But at the same time we defended well ”.

Maddison delivered fake handshakes in celebration of his goal following criticism this week of footballers who did not respect social distancing.

He told BT Sport: “It was something the player mentioned, something that we should probably start doing to give him some encouragement, because if little things like that are what it takes to keep football going, that’s what We all want it at the end of the day

“That’s something we have been told – there was a meeting yesterday – we have to try to implement to stop people meeting and I just tried to turn it into a lighthearted joke. Footballers get hit a lot and it’s good to try to turn something like that. I think the whole country wants football to continue ”.

Regarding his goal, the midfielder said: “It was nice to see him come in. They are tough, especially from close angle. I remember my dad telling me, when you’re in tight angles, the only place you can really score is the roof of the net because the goalkeeper is so big, that was on my mind.



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