Every point earned at Molineux could prove vital, says Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson

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Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson said every point earned at Molineux tomorrow could prove vital come the end of the season.

City have yet to pick up a point from their first two away games of the season.

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    Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson

While it is very early days in the campaign, Pearson said City could not afford to be blasé about dropped points at the start of the season as it could prove costly in the vital run-in.

But, while Pearson admits his side should be better off in the table now, he is happy with how they are shaping up.

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"For a lot of people, the table is relevant from day one," he said.

"People can be a bit flippant about the points you drop early in the season. Clearly they do matter.

"The emphasis seems to be greater towards the end of the season when you are looking at where you can pick up points, but you have to make sure you start the season pretty well.

"We have had an indifferent start, in that we have started the season with three wins and three defeats from our four league games and two cup games.

"Should we have lost all three? No, I don't think we should have, but we did.

"Our focus is on our next game. It is straight forward in that sense. It is being able to withstand the scrutiny of other people and make sure you get your own preparation right.

"And if things don't go your way, you have to ensure the belief is still there and we are single-minded enough to make things happen."

Recently-relegated Wolves have won only three of their last 32 games in all competitions.

However, Pearson is expecting another tough away day.

"They will want to win and they will want a response from last season's disappointment," said Pearson.

"But they will be looking at us and they will know that we have some good players and have been playing pretty well.

"My focus is always trying to get us playing as well as we can and, if we do that, we are capable of beating anyone in this league.

"We know if our preparation is right and we are at our max we are a very good side.

"I think for sides who get relegated a good start to the season is very important. They have experienced more changes.

"There was a lot of uncertainty for them in the last half of last season, and a number of changes.

"It will take a while for them to find their level of performance and for the new manager to really get the identity of his own team."

City youngster Tom Hopper has joined Bury on a one-month loan deal.

The 18-year-old forward heads to Gigg Lane for the first loan spell of his career and will be in contention to play for the League One Shakers against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane today.

Hopper joined the Foxes Academy two years ago following a spell with Boston United.

He has been a regular in the City development squad and made his first-team debut as a substitute in the win over Swindon in the FA Cup in January.

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  • Profile image for Chappy1884

    by Chappy1884

    Monday, September 17 2012, 8:38AM

    “Rod - I know you want everyone to keep the faith and I respect your opinion that NP will turn it around, and you know me so you know I dearly hope you are right..

    But I have lost confidence.

    He has taken a massive gamble -
    If it had paid off - he'd be credited as a genius - doing it with unknowns and unprovens

    But it's starting to look like he hasn't got it right - he is not endearing himself to the fans,
    he doesn't seem to have a plan b - he is letting pride get in the way of tactics.

    EVERYONE knew this team needed - A Matt Elliott/Steve Walsh type character,
    A Neil Lennon, and a Striker who can craft shots as well as knock in Scrappy Flukes,

    We didn't sign a single one of them - Knockaert is the only signing that has impressed me.

    Marshall looked good last season,
    Drinkwater - not as convinced as I was

    The team quite obviously only play for half a game

    If Nigel can find some positives great - but they won't recover any of the nine points out of 15 his team have currenly thrown away.

    Sorry mate, Martin Allen had gone in 3 games time -
    Did you know after the same amount of games he had the same amount of points, but he only lost 1 of them and we were still in the cup.

    His Stat after 5 Games
    P 5 - W 1 D 3 L 1 F9 A7 GD+2 pts 6

    His Stat after 8 games when he got the boot (which no one really questioned)
    P8 - W1 D5 L2 F10 A11 GD-1 pts 7

    Ironically we won the next game 2 nil
    But our position at the end of that season - 22nd (3 Managers and 2 caretakers.)
    And that was in a Weak Championship.
    I walked in your betting shop that week and bet on us (as 2nd Favourites - to go up).

    People can red arrow this post - these are factual stats,
    We are playing in a stronger division - where more teams have more stability, so they don't need to change things to stay afloat like Portsmouth, or Crystal Palace and Forets last year.

    The only Manager in this division who's had initial success with unknowns and fringe players - and even that wasn't sustained - is Nigel Clough last year.

    Brighton have overtaken us as a well run, well managed club - they are looking to expand, they never aimed for instant success - but they look every bit the same as Swanswea did. We are starting to look a bit like Leeds did when they offloaded their big names and brought in stop gap players.”

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    by squirril33

    Monday, September 17 2012, 12:59AM

    “Exactly correct. The forwards must have the comfort of knowing that if they miss a chance it does not neccesarily mean that City will go one down the very next time their opponants get a chance on account of lack of any defensive skills.. Alternately if they do score they need to be able to feel tha the defense will have the basic skills to make the advantage worthwhile.”

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    by TheFox02

    Monday, September 17 2012, 12:17AM

    “Have to agree with dobranich, we need to immediately strengthen the defence with loanees. And I'm talking Premiership players who are sitting on benches feeling disgruntled.
    Very disappointing to be leaking so many goals when this was supposed to be NP's area of strength.
    With the forwards mis-firing (this will change I've no doubt as we have some real quality there), we cannot afford to put them under more pressure by conceding easy goals through not man marking - not doing the basics.”

  • Profile image for dobranich

    by dobranich

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 11:34PM

    “Not really that much foxfan he does have ideas. His main problem is he is arrogant and although anyone can see that this defence is a dead loss he wont go for that because he set it up. People can talk of City chances but i feel that if they had equalised Wolves could have scored again with ease. The City defence is an absolute shambles.”

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    by foxeerod

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 6:49PM

    “i was at work but when konch pulled one back i sneaked up the road to the pub for the last 15 mins .
    i saw enough chances in that last 15 to have won the match ,and now im at home , ive just seen on sky sports that we had 10 attempts on target to wolves 9 and 10 other attempts to wolves 6 .
    in the pub i met one of the few other leicester fans in newark who had sat watching the match with his missus and he said it was incredible with the amount of chances and the way we had played that we were not winning.
    it is frustrating that we have nil points from 3 away games, that we have, in the main dominated but this is no time to panic, weve just gotta plug away and beat burnley and hull at home.
    up the mighty blue foxes”

  • Profile image for MartinLFE

    by MartinLFE

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 5:25PM

    “We lost 2 - 1”

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    by foxfan1

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 4:15PM

    “So Dobbo...are you back in the "he hasn't got a clue" mindset?”

  • Profile image for dobranich

    by dobranich

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 3:43PM

    “DRAWING BOARD. OH IM SORRY WE DONT HAVE ONE. Yes we had more play 2nd half but they were merely defending a lead. I will revise my 8th at best to 14th at best without loan defenders.”

  • Profile image for dobranich

    by dobranich

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 3:39PM

    “Dont look for pluses they lost period. Just listened to Peason interview. He says we must convert more chances????

    Does he want to win matches 4-3. The defence cant defend Nigel. Your defence which is as frail as last seasons. De Laet is a ball watcher and im sorry but Vardy looked 3 divisions below the others. Nugent made a complete fool of himself pulling shirts etc and asking for fols against him.”

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    by dobranich

    Sunday, September 16 2012, 2:07PM

    “PITY YOU AINT GETTING ANY THEN NIGEL PEARSON. GET THE MAN UTD TRAINEES OUT WITH THE ACADEMY AND GET SOME PROPER LOAN DEFENDERS IN. I DID SAY PREVIOUSLY THE LM HADNT UPDATED THE LEAGUE TABLE BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE TEAM WOULD SOON BE BACK THERE.”

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