Leicester supervisor Brendan Rodgers says he isn’t involved about Jamie Vardy’s purpose drought, as he searches for a win to reignite the Foxes’ problem for a Champions League spot. The 33-year-old’s solely targets of 2020 got here within the remaining match earlier than the lockdown – Leicester’s Four-Zero dwelling win towards Aston Villa in March. That double took Vardy to 99 Premier League targets and, regardless of the barren run, he stays the division’s joint-top scorer this season on 19 alongside Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Leicester have collected simply two factors in three matches because the restart following the coronavirus shutdown.
Requested if he was nervous about Vardy’s lack of targets, Rodgers instructed reporters on Friday: “No, I feel Jamie is confirmed and since I got here into right here he has been a breath of recent air.
“His expertise and his goalscoring capability has been proper up there for the entire interval I’ve been right here. I feel when he will get the alternatives he’ll take them and I feel over the course of those video games he hasn’t had many.”
Rodgers added: “Typically these milestones when they’re so shut can take that bit longer to attain, however he’s nonetheless such an actual catalyst for us and a vital participant for us.”
Leicester are nonetheless third within the Premier League however are only a level away from Chelsea and three forward of Manchester United and Wolves.
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Rodgers mentioned he by no means had any reservations about Leicester’s recreation towards Crystal Palace going forward on Saturday regardless of lockdown measures being re-imposed on the Midlands metropolis.
“We’re in a bubble right here when it comes to our coaching facility, and clearly the video games, and we get often examined so nothing actually has modified on that entrance,” he mentioned.
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