latest news Claudio Rainier 'angry' at Leicester's contrasting domestic & European form

Claudio Rainier 'angry' at Leicester's contrasting domestic & European form

Leicester administrator Claudio Rainier says he is "very, very angry" his group cannot duplicate their Winners Team type in the Leading Team.

Riyadh Mahrez's objective properly secured a 1-0 win over FC Copenhagen on Wednesday to go away the Foxes one achievements from receiving the Winners Team last 16.

But the British champions, unbeaten in Western countries with three victories in three, are Thirteenth locally after four failures.

Rainier said it is a "psychological" problem and the league is his concern.

Leicester are only the fifth Winners Team debutantes - after AC Milan, London St-German, Juventus and Malaya - to win their starting three activities.

"I'm very extremely pleased of the part from either part but from another, when I think of the Leading Team, I am very, very upset," said Rainier, 64.

"In my profession this has occurred. When you are in the big competitors for the first time you develop and then you reduce something when you go back into your own competitors.

"When you within the Winners Team you are converted on, very, very intelligent and concentrated on every scenario. You use up a lot of psychological power in the Winners Team.

"We want to modify this though because the Leading Team is our concern."

Group G
Leicester are only the fifth Winners Team debutantes to win their starting three activities in the competition
Leicester have missing more activities in the Leading Team this year than they did in their headline strategy - and admitted 14 objectives.

But in Western countries, the Foxes have become only the third group to begin a Winners Team strategy with three directly fresh linens, and they can protected a place in the last 16 with a win in Denmark on 2 Nov, having already assured at least a Europa Team identify.

"It is good to go into the Europa Team but we are in the Winners Team and we go detailed," included Ranieri.

"We have to keep relaxed now and alter our mindset in the Leading Team because we have Amazingly Structure arriving up - a challenging, challenging coordinate."

Analysis - How far can Leicester go?

Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's primary soccer writer

When Leicester's ideas converted to their first Winners Team strategy, certification from Team G would have been considered as a significant achievements for administrator Claudio Ranieri and his gamers.

But the Foxes may just elegant their probability of taking the desire trip a stride further.

Topping the group would make life a lot simpler in the last-16 attract as it greatly boosts the likelihood of illustrating beatable competitors when all reasoning - something, of course, they defied last year - indicates they would battle against Europe's top level.

The Master Power Ground is a lightweight and environmental field, circulating with disturbance, that is completely developed for Western evenings and making even the most illustrious ends unpleasant.

If Leicester can keep up this type, and companies Riyadh Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and Islam Slimani can offer the risk to complement the protecting strength that won the Leading Team, then there may be a lot of ends they can problems."