Leicester’s European campaign will go on but not in the way they wanted and, perhaps more distressingly, there is no end in sight to their defensive problems. Brendan Rodgers’ team contributed embarrassingly to their own defeat to an under-strength Napoli side and, as a result, dropped out of the Europa League and into the less-vaunted Europa Conference League.
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“With all due respect to the competition, I’m not sure what it is,” said Rodgers, who was equally frank about his team’s shortcomings after another vexing defeat. “We were good offensively but nowhere near good enough defensively,” he said “We’ve played a number of systems and shapes [this season], individually it comes down to being able to have that mentality to track a runner or stop a cross. These are basics of the game that we’re not doing well.”