Leicester manager Enzo Maresca was impressed with the way his side coped with a stern challenge as they edged to a 2-0 win at Norwich to maintain their excellent start to the Championship season.
Maresca’s team have now won six of their seven league games to lie second in the embryonic table but they were made to work hard for their success by a home side who had won all their games at Carrow Road before this one.
Kelechi Iheanacho and Kasey McAteer struck for the Foxes.
“I am very pleased with our performance because of the opponents we were up against,” he said.
“I have watched all their games and they usually score goals – 15 I think – so I am very pleased to come away with a win and a clean sheet.
“We had to work very hard for the points – I said to the lads afterwards that you can work on the way you play, the way you defend but you also have to have the desire out there on the pitch.
“The way the team defended was unbelievable, clearing the ball from corners and second and third phase play and that made all the difference tonight.”
Maresca made five changes to the side that won at Southampton last time out, with Jamie Vardy and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall among the players left on the bench, and he was delighted with the way the new-look line-up coped.
