Leicester City players ‘should use anger over sacking as motivation against Swansea’

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Michael Appleton will tell the Leicester City players to use their anger at the sacking of manager Craig Shakespeare as motivation at Swansea.

He said his players had to go out and perform for themselves to answer any questions about their own part in the manager’s downfall.

The City players were left shocked by the sudden sacking on Tuesday.

Appleton admitted the players were ‘cheesed off’ at a meeting on Thursday, but he said the players must be motivated to prove a point at Swansea.

‘Professional footballers do care’

“I think all players take on board responsibility,” he said.

“When difficult situations like this happen that they’ve not expected, professional footballers are a resilient bunch.

“Regardless of how they’re reported and what people think sometimes, they do care and I’d like to think there are enough players in that dressing room, if not all of them, that have a sense of responsibility to win the game for themselves.

“In terms of the motivation, it will be literally to just get three points and it will be about themselves.

“There’s no doubt about it that Craig had an incredible relationship with everybody at the football club, but having been a player and worked with a lot of players over many years now, they want to win games of football.

‘They feel Craig was hard done by’

“And they want to win for their manager, and if what’s happened over the last couple of days is the motivation that they need to get the three points, great.

“They have motivation for themselves personally and obviously motivation for each other in terms of the team, so going into the game whatever motivation that each individual has on that day, whether it’s personal, the team or the fact that they feel that Craig was hard done by, so be it.

“The most important thing is the three points.”

City have no fresh injury concerns and the only

absentees are Robert Huth (ankle) and Matty James (Achilles).