Gary Rowett admits he won’t have any special words of wisdom for his Leicester City players as they look to avoid being relegated to League One.
Defeat against play-off chasing Hull City will consign the Foxes to the third tier of English football once again, a decade on from their historic Premier League title win under Claudio Ranieri.
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City have their own desire for points to arrest a four-game winlesss run which has seen their play-off place come under serious threat in recent weeks.
Leicester’s dismal 1-0 loss at fellow strugglers Portsmouth on Saturday leaves them eight points adrift of safety, with only nine left to play for, making their situation desperate.
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Rowett, who was brought in on an interim basis following the departure of Marti Cifuentes earlier this season, says his side must show belief that they can get out what looks a perilous situation.
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“I can say we’ve got belief, but we need to show that in our performances and our results,” Rowett said ahead of Tuesday’s meeting with the Tigers.
“I said to the players we’ve got to start hoping we get a little fortune from somewhere else. But I don’t like saying that as a manager. I’m not interested in what other teams do, I’m interested in what we do.
“We have to be professional. As a player, if I had three games to go and I was already relegated, I’d still want to win all three of those games. I don’t care. It’s about pride and your own personal standards.
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“For me, we turn up Tuesday and we have to do everything we can to win the game. It’s easy saying it. We’ve had two or three opportunities to show that extra bit of drive and we haven’t quite find it. We have to see if we can find it Tuesday.
“(I said to the players) I’ve got no words of wisdom to make it feel better. I’ve got no words of wisdom to make Tuesday feel so easy to win that game.
“The players are paid a decent amount of money to be professional. I don’t care what the league looks like, what position we’re in, I’d be fighting to feel better about myself in the last three games. That’s going to be what we’re trying to do.”
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