Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca has said that his side are a Championship side, despite claims that they are already a Premier League team.
The Foxes returned to the top of the Championship after a 4-1 win away at Blackburn Rovers on Sunday afternoon, with Wout Faes, Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall all getting on the scoresheet.
After the game, Blackburn manager Jon Dahl Tomasson said he was happy with his side’s performance, against what he claimed is already a Premier League team.
After the game, Tomasson told the Leicester Mercury: “We are extremely disappointed with the result. It doesn’t reflect the game, I don’t think, the score at the end. We knew it was going to be tough against a Premier League side with lots of good players.
“It was a great effort by the lads. We shouldn’t forget this is an excellent side, probably champions of this league, and a Premier League team.”
Enzo Maresca disagrees with Tomasson comments
On the contrary, Maresca disagreed with Tomasson’s comments, as he tries to alleviate pressure from his team.
“I’m not agreed with him,” Maresca said. “I agree with him that they are very good, they played very good, the best team we have faced and I told him. But I don’t agree that we’re a Premier League team.
“Otherwise we would not be playing against Blackburn, but against one of the Premier League clubs. Leicester is a Championship club.
“We’ve had many players join us, like Mads (Hermansen), like Yunus (Akgun). Macca (Kasey McAteer) last year was in League Two, we played against Liverpool with a goalkeeper (Jakub Stolarczyk) who was in League Two last year.
“Cesare Casadei born 2003, Callum (Doyle) born 2003, (Abdul) Fatawu born 2004. It’s easy to say Leicester is a Premier League club because for everyone it is easy to say. But you need to show that.”