Nottingham Forest fans rub salt in the wounds with chant about Steve Cooper in win at Leicester

Leicester City boss Steve Cooper speaking to Sky Sports: “It’s self-inflicted, no doubt about that, and it’s on us. We all have to take responsibility for how the game panned out.

“We made poor mistakes for the goals, no doubt about it, and we were punished for it but I just think conceding so early on in the second half was obviously not a good thing.

“There was still a lot of time for the game to settle again, us to carry on with things we were doing in the first half, improve and be the threat we wanted to be.

“The third goal was just a real killer and still there was a lot of time left but the game just became a little bit of trying to get players on in certain positions, territory all that stuff, defenders on, extra attackers on, we just lost any sort of rhythm we got in the first half – we lost it completely because of scoreline so it’s on us.

“We have to take responsibility for it. It’s a setback after winning a few games coming into this. We have to accept it, completely on us and me and we’ve got punished for the poor giveaways on the goals.

“Conceding so early in the second half was far from ideal but I still felt ‘ok let’s recover again’, we had some good control in the game and painting some pictures at half time, where we felt we could do even better and maybe there was a little bit of not panic but probably a little bit of trying to put things right maybe too soon rather than sticking to plan, keeping going believing we would get the game how we wanted it to be.

“Forest are a counter-attacking team, they are really good with it and we gifted them moments for them to show that.”

On how the players have responded: “We feel like we are in a good way and on the right path but this is a setback, there’s no doubt about that and especially with the local rivalry and all of that we knew was in the game.

“We really have to feel the hurt for supporters and ourselves and take it on the chin and know that we fell short. At the same time, it’s happened, we have to reflect on it, talk about what didn’t go right tonight and be very determined to not let that happen again.

“There’s going to be loads of ups and downs this season and that’s the nature of the league, where we’re trying to get establishment in the Premier League – it ain’t easy. You see the last two games, some highs, today was a low and even more difficult because it was a local game but there will be lots of ups and downs this year and how we recover from setbacks will define where we end up and we’ve got to go through that process now.”

On whether he feels it more because it was against his former club Nottingham Forest: “No not at all, anyone who knows me knows I’m always for the greater good, always for what’s right for the club or organisation that I work for and I’ve just been completely focused on the game tonight and trying to do the best job possible.

“It didn’t go as we’d have hoped, that’s on us. I was completely locked in on that. All I’m thinking about is why the game went as it did tonight and really motivated and determined to put it right.”

Leicester City midfielder Harry Winks speaking to Sky Sports: “First half we were excellent, we were back to how we were, we controlled the game. We made sure we were up the pitch to counter them as well when we lost the ball we made sure we were there to win ball again

“We knew we’d concede a couple of chances on the counter, which was ok because we wanted to dominate the ball. First half we were excellent, second half it was some poor errors that led to goals and them being ruthless and clinical on the counter attack.”

On Jamie Vardy’s equaliser: “We worked on that a lot last year, the way we played out from back me and Ricky [Ricardo Pereira] having that combination play to bring people onto us and it worked really well. We wanted to invite them on to press us, find space in behind, it worked really well.

“First half I thought we were excellent doing that, we controlled the game and we conceded some chances on the counter but that’s football. That’s gonna happen we played positive and we enjoyed it and I think in the second half we maybe took a step back a little bit and the game got a bit frantic towards maybe the 65th onwards when we were chasing the game and lost a bit of that control and I think that’s something we need to look at.”

On conceding early in the second half: “Individual errors caused us our own problems, it wasn’t so much them with a bit of quality causing us problems it was just us but it’s a bit sloppy, it happened throughout the game today.

“It’s football, it happens people make mistakes it’s fine – it’s how you react. I think in the second half after we conceded the third goal I think it was a tough ask to get back into the game. It was important we tried to stay to our principles and keep trying to control and find spaces.”

On taking positives: “It’s the Premier League, you get punished if you make mistakes, us players have to take full responsibility for that we were the ones on the pitch who made mistakes but if we can try and bring that first half into every match this season, try and play like that throughout the season I think we’ll be fine. We showed how much quality we have, good players in the team but it’s just about trying to find that consistency and keep doing that throughout the match.”

“It’s on us, we have to take responsibility for it. It’s a setback.”

Steve Cooper says that his team were punished for their poor performance against Nottingham Forest 🤕 pic.twitter.com/dij1HAhrvG

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 25, 2024

Twitter users gave their reaction as Nottingham Forest fans rub salt in the wounds with a chant about Steve Cooper in their win at Leicester…

@willmaddocknffc: Shit housery at its finest and I’m fucking here for it!

@4evaNFFC: Fuck Steve Cooper. We are all on the piss with Nuno tonight. We can go back to respecting Coops after the game. I do not want to hear 1 Steve Cooper song this evening #nffc

@TrickyRedRad: Should have been 7, love that your managers name is being sung by a club he loves more then you. Absolute demo job. #nffc #lcfc

@LondonHolly1865: How did your cup final go? Y’know.. that world famous ‘East Midlands Derby’ 🤣🤔

@Mega_Phone_Man: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you’re wank, we were tired after Monday and never hit full tilt, could’ve hit 5 🤣😭

@ForestAreMagico: Steeeeevie Cooper! He hates the Leicester, he hates the Derby, Forest are magic! 5th 😍 enjoy relegation x

@Mister_Forest: I can’t tell how happy and positive I’m feeling about us this season! Literally can’t stop smiling this morning. Cooper said the defeat was self inflicted, I disagree I thought we did a job on them second half and should of finished with 5 or 6 #nffc

@TeddyLesterCoC: Top shithousery 🤣😂

@xCleaver_NFFC: Hahahahaha fuck off back to the championship

@95Redss: The Cooper chant was a stroke of genius. Nothing heartfelt, just sarcasm at its finest 🤣 #NFFC

@Dazzler1865: By far the worst team we have played so far this season 💩 Easy 3 points! Cheers Stevie Cooper 😁👍🏻 #NFFC

@AmyGrimmers: Sounds like a home game. Fans in fine voice ❤️

@Dazzler1865: Smashed in your Cup final! 💩

@NMBLAKE: I’d like to pass on my gratitude to both Agent Henderson and Agent Cooper for their great work this week. #NFFC

@Only1Carlton: Absolutely loved the ironic “Stevie Cooper” chant, perfectly timed & sounded brilliant on the TV 😂👌🏼 #NFFC

@Luca_Reale92: Away lot singing “cooper hates the Leicester” is fucking incredible shithousery 😂😂😂 #nffc

@Davidsm37973608: Straight back down, straight back down Leicester city…….

This seems to have gone over some people’s heads… about time we had a bit of shithousing going on in our social media team. pic.twitter.com/YfomUEfnty

— Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇱 (@AO1865) October 26, 2024