
Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers was delighted with their 4-2 win at Aston Villa.
During a thrilling first half, Villa twice edged in front, via Ollie Watkins and a Harry Souttar own goal, but Leicester were up to the task of responding on both occasions, as James Maddison notched his first goal since the World Cup and Kelechi Iheanacho scored his second in as many games.
Debutant Tet soon sent City into the break with a 3-2 advantage, while Dennis Praet was on hand to emerge off the bench and seal a satisfying first win of 2023 late on in the second half, much to Rodgers' delight.
City's manager told LCFC TV after full-time: You look at the form Aston Villa have been in since Unai [Emery] has come in, a team that is full of confidence, especially at home, but I thought we were outstanding today. It was a really good level.
Offensively [we were] very good; we were a real threat when we had the ball and caused many problems. Defensively, there's still things for us to get right in terms of the balance with the new guys coming in, but you can't take anything away from the players today.
Going behind twice and coming back the spirit in the team and the quality to get in front at half-time and then, in the second half, we were calm and saw the game through and could have had more goals. I'm very, very pleased."
