Leicester City coach Brendan Rodgers has blammed the Foxes struggles in the Premier League to lack of lack of transfer spending after Saturday’s draw against Crystal Palace at the King Power Stadium.
Leciester relegation troubles are far from over even as the result lifted them out the bottom three temporarily.
Speaking to BT Sport after the match, Rodgers praised the effort from his players. However, he did not deny he would be under pressure close to the foot of the table, and suggested that failing to act in the market to a greater extent would be a handicap.
“The modern game, if you are not winning, it opens you up to criticism and I accept that,” he added.
“The players are fighting and running and giving everything. I always felt after the summer market we would have to fight our way through the season but the players are doing that and hopefully we will get better results as the season goes on.”
He added that being at the wrong end of the table can affect players confindence. “I thought the performance was good. We limited a very good Crystal Palace team, with a lot of individual players of real quality, to one chance.
“At this moment we have got to see effort and fight of the players, which was there. The talent is there but we are [near] the bottom of the table, so confidence can be affected.
“It was a good performance, the desire to win the game was there, but it was a clean sheet against a good team.”
