I want the Leicester players to come back with a smile, says Claude Puel, besieged | Soccer

Claude Puel urged his team in Leicester City to rediscover their ruthless sequence in time to navigate a series of test matches as his efforts to convince continue. The under-press coach saw his team succumb to a fifth loss in eight games after conceding two points to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday and challenged his players to demonstrate their quality in their next three games against Liverpool and Manchester United. and Tottenham Hotspur.

Diogo Jota, winner at stoppage time, has sentenced Leicester for a third consecutive loss, but Puel is adamant: his players are able to rebound dramatically. Leicester have lost at home against Cardiff and Southampton over the past four weeks, but have also defeated Chelsea and Manchester City in the same amount of time.

After being eliminated from the third round of the FA Cup by League 2 Newport County earlier this month, Leicester has the luxury of a 10-day window to prepare for Liverpool at Anfield. "I think the most important thing is that I want my players to rest, recover physically and in their minds, and come back with a smile, with the right intensity, badiduously to the training session for correct things, "Puel said. "We have to manage our next game to take on a fantastic challenge and create a new surprise.

"I think that against the good teams, we had excellent consistency, good concentration and good concentration since the beginning of the matches. I hope we can find it again against these teams and give good performance and good results. We showed before the good quality and it will be a challenge for the next games. It is important to manage the end of the game, to keep a good lucidity and to be smart in this situation. I think there was a lot of fatigue at the end of the match, but we had to finish it with a good feeling. "

A third defeat in four games has inevitably increased the vigilance surrounding the immediate future of Puel, although there is no obvious candidate to fill a vacancy, with two possible candidates, Brendan Rodgers and Rafael Benítez, both in office . Leicester missed goals for Jota and Ryan Bennett in the first 12 minutes of Molineux, which means that they have fallen behind in 15 of their 23 Premier League matches this season.

"It's game management and decision-making," said Leicester winger Demarai Gray. "It was not expensive. We told him [about it] Friday and before the match, but we did the same again and we put ourselves under pressure. We can only work on it. We have tough games ahead, but we have already shown that we can play against any team and beat the best teams as we did in December. We are more than capable of getting results. "

Meanwhile, the Football Federation is awaiting Molineux's report from referee Chris Kavanagh, but it is understood that the wolf coach, Nuno Espírito Santo, could be subject to penalties after being deported after running until At the stadium. Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp was warned of his future behavior and fined £ 8,000 after accepting a charge of misconduct on the part of the FA. a game also officiated by Kavanagh – in December. After Saturday's win, Nuno said, "I've been fired and it's the right decision. It was clear and a good decision. You can not go to the field. I have tried, but someone saw me.