Brendan Rodgers believes Jannik Vestergaard proved he was an excellent signing for Leicester City after his performance against Manchester City on Saturday.

The Dane started for the first time since his £15m summer switch from Southampton.

Leicester eventually lost 1-0 to Pep Guardiola's side, but Rodgers was impressed with his new defender.

“I'm delighted with Jannik," the City manager said. “He gives us that great presence in the box when we defend and you see him, he gets his head on to a lot of things when we're attacking as well.

“He got some good blocks in and reads the game so well. Then he has that calmness when we have the ball. I was delighted with him.

“The plan was to get him to 60 minutes and when he starts to fatigue then bring Jonny in. I'm delighted with both but really pleased for Jannik in terms of his first game in and I think you can see over the course of the season he'll do great for us."