Cooper on ‘good bits’ and ‘making mistakes’

Leicester City saw off League One Shrewsbury Town in their first public match under new boss Steve Cooper.

Goals from Stephy Mavididi and Kasey McAteer were enough to make it two wins out of two pre-season games for the Foxes, as the 2016 Premier League winners prepare for their return to the top flight.

Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester, Steve Cooper agreed there were some “good bits” but expects more from his team: “We had some clear objectives for the game, in terms of how we wanted the team to play, some physical returns and players in some different positions.

“There were definitely some good bits and some bits where we will think we need to do a bit better than that.

“I think the mistakes we made in the game were from the guys trying to play with our new ideas, so I’m OK with that. It is OK to make mistakes when they are trying to do what we are implementing.”

The Welsh manager also explained why Jamie Vardy and Jakub Stolarczyk were unavailable: “Vards had a knock in the game against Villarreal. Unfortunately he has missed this game, but fortunately he won’t be out for too long.

“We are hoping he will be back with us for the Germany camp, if not a bit after that.

“It’s really unfortunate news on Jakub. He had a really innocuous injury in training and it ended up being a really serious injury. He has had to have an operation on his ankle and he will be out for a long period of time.”