Brendan Rodgers hailed the “invaluable” Marc Albrighton after the winger’s emphatic strike helped Leicester beat Rennes 2-0 within the first leg of their Europa Convention League last-16 tie on the King Energy Stadium.
Albrighton put the Foxes forward on the half-hour mark by cracking the ball house from the sting of the field following a burst down the left and tee up by Harvey Barnes.
The 32-year-old additionally offered the help in stoppage time when substitute Kelechi Iheanacho curled in to make sure Leicester secured a two-goal result in take into subsequent Thursday’s second leg in France.
Boss Rodgers, whose facet have now gained every of their final 4 video games in all competitions, stated of Albrighton: “He’s a useful member of the squad, somebody who turns up day by day, trains, provides his all. When he performs he provides every part.
“To attain a objective, create a objective, work as laborious as he did, he had an amazing night time. He’s been an enormous participant for us coming into the staff.
“What’s allowed us to get our win price up has been work price, and that work price from gamers like him is so necessary.
“The way you press the sport on the prime finish of the sphere, make it actually tough, that’s been the true basis of our work, and he epitomises all of that. He’s been completely good, and it was an amazing night time for him.”
Giving his general evaluation, Rodgers stated: “I feel you’ll be able to see Rennes are an excellent facet. They made a greater begin, have been faster to the ball, and we have been giving it away too cheaply.
“However we labored our means into the sport, and I feel as soon as we bought the primary objective, which was an excellent objective, then it gave us actual confidence within the sport. Collectively we labored very laborious, and we scored two excellent objectives.
“The (first) objective was a superb objective. Barnes’ contact was sensational, then he beat the full-back, bought into the field, pulled it again after which Marc, what a end that was. It simply was such an amazing, nice objective, and an exquisite end.”
Rodgers added: “2-0 for me is a scoreline of endurance. It’s nonetheless you need to endure and endure, as a result of the opponent has nothing to lose, they’ll come after you. So we all know we’ll be below stress within the second leg, however we additionally know we are able to rating objectives.
“You couldn’t be happier actually with a primary leg, nevertheless it’s solely half-time.”
Rennes did not profit from some notable probabilities, and have been thwarted by Kasper Schmeichel with simply over quarter-hour to go to when he made a great save to maintain out a Martin Terrier shot.
Rennes boss Bruno Genesio stated: “I feel we did numerous good issues through the sport. Technically we have been good and we created probabilities.
“However I feel in soccer you need to be scientific at one finish and rating your probabilities and in addition very environment friendly on the different finish, and greater than anything I remorse the actual fact we conceded the second objective in direction of the tip.
“Typically you may make errors or errors, however I feel tonight our sport administration on the finish, there have been a few instances after we might have maintained possession of the ball, we gave the ball away after which we ended up conceding that objective.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
