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Leicester boss Rodgers feels Southampton defeat self-inflicted

Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers felt their home defeat to Southampton was self-inflicted.

Strikes from Stuart Armstrong and Danny Ings overturned Dennis Praet's early opener.

Rodgers told LCFC TV: "The performance probably didn't merit anything from the game.

"The players kept going right to the end and kept fighting.

"We haven't seen too many of those here this season. The game was very broken, there was no real fluency in the game, lots of first or second balls, but ultimately, we didn't defend well enough.

"We didn't press the game strong enough, or well enough, and then when we had the ball, we made too many mistakes when we had the ball.

"So, it looked like up until the end, it was going to be a draw, which we would have taken because we didn't play well.

"However, they played through our midfield too easily and then they get in and get the goal, so a disappointing result for us."

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