Leicester City manager Russell Martin severely criticized his team's performance following their 0-4 home defeat to Oxford United, calling the loss "painful" and "unacceptable".

Leicester City suffered a heavy 0-4 home defeat to Oxford United in League One; Russell Martin's team has won just once in their last five matches.

In this match, Leicester City suffered their heaviest defeat of the 2024/25 season at the King Power Stadium. Leicester City have now lost 2 of their 3 home matches in League One this season.

After the match, Russell Martin said: "It's painful, really very painful. Today, we looked completely opposite to what we normally are."

"Previously, we were very united, very aggressive and always ready to fight for each other. But today, for about 25 minutes in the second half, our performance was unacceptable."

Speaking about his team's poor start, Martin said: "We had a very poor start because that opening goal was really poor. But after that, we actually got back into the game, and I think we completely dominated the first half for a period."

"But the problem was the start. We didn't compete hard enough, too often we didn't retain possession after each challenge. We played too softly."

Martin also highlighted serious problems exposed during set pieces: "Today, we had 5 throw-ins from the center circle, and 3 of them resulted in chances created by the opposition in front of our goal, which is crazy. I think that reflects our inexperience on the pitch and sometimes our decision-making issues."

"Then we started chasing the game, but against a very good transition team, we got caught in transition again and again. I made a few substitutions, bringing off some of our more experienced players, hoping to inject some energy into the match."

Finally, Martin concluded: "We need to learn from this. I think in the closing stages of the match, our team is still too young and too inexperienced. We played too naively and too weakly."

Traduit par IA.

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