Enzo Maresca has once again appealed to Leicester City’s home fans to be patient, especially when goalkeeper Mads Hermansen has the ball.
City will be hoping to continue last week’s good form when they return to the King Power Stadium to host Bristol City on Saturday. Victories against Southampton and Norwich extended City’s away win streak to six games.
Maresca knows an extra 25,000 singing fans will be a huge boost and will be hoping to recreate the atmosphere City’s away fan base created in those matches at the King Power Stadium this weekend. He also hopes fans will be patient and not lose sight of their team’s goal, even if the goalie has the ball for 30 seconds.
“When you play away you can hear more, the fans supporting,” Maresca said at his press conference on Friday afternoon. “To create the same environment at home, 25,000 people singing and supporting the team altogether, it could be a great environment for us. If we are able to create the right environment at home, it’s a plus for us.”
“We play three games at home, Coventry, Cardiff, and Hull. The final score in two of them, we win. Even against Hull, we lost the game, but the analysis from the game was good
“The fans, I can see they are trying to make an effort. We are grateful that they are trying to understand what we are looking for. At the same time, it’s their decision. We can ask them something, but at the end it’s their decision.
“For me, the only problem is just when we face a team like Norwich who go man-to-man, and the only free man is Mads. Sometimes Mads has to keep the ball for 30 seconds. I don’t care to be honest. If Mads passes the ball and they are man to man, it means all the players are marked, so it’s difficult. The good thing is to wait until some opponents jump to Mads. In that case, it means one of our players is free.”
The results and performances have generated plenty of goodwill among supporters so it should be the case that the moans and groans are limited at the King Power this weekend. If City win, bettering Ipswich’s scoreline against Blackburn, and then Preston fail to beat Rotherham, Maresca’s side will jump back up to top spot.
