Enzo Maresca interview: Leicester manager on setbacks, James Justin, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Jamie Vardy

Leicester boss Enzo Maresca discusses his side's recent setbacks after back-to-back Championship defeats, James Justin's adaptation to a new defensive rule, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and how Jamie Vardy is still learning at 36.

EFL Editor @simgholam

Monday 20 November 2023 10:05, UK

«I don't want to talk to you anymore.»

Enzo Maresca has a big smile on his face as we start our interview.

It is the second time he has won the Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month award this season, and the second time it has seen his Leicester side go on to lose in the immediate aftermath.

We chat following their defeat to Leeds United, and before they went on to make it back-to-back defeats at Middlesbrough.

Leicester are still top of the Championship, so it would be ridiculous to get too worried. But they are two results that perhaps reflect the fact that this season may not be quite the stroll to promotion that many were predicting a couple of weeks ago.

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The Italian, 43, remains extremely relaxed.

«What the players were doing is not normal — winning, winning, winning,» he says. «So when you lose a game there will be a big noise.

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»That is part of football, the process, the league. I always knew we'd lose games. We just need to focus now on what we need to do to try and improve.

«The process stays the same as after we win a game. We just try to analyse what is working well and what isn't working and try to improve that.

»When we won 13 of our first 14 it was a big achievement. It was the reason why when we lose it is talked about. But I don't want