The Leicester City manager was seen encouraging those in the stands at the King Power Stadium after Vardy made it 2-0 in an excellent first half on Tuesday evening
Enzo Maresca hoped to urge the Leicester City crowd to help his team go for the kill against Sheffield Wednesday and end the match as a contest before half-time.
City produced one of their best halves of the season to take a 2-0 lead after 35 minutes on Tuesday night. Following the second goal, an excellent team move finished off by Jamie Vardy, Maresca was seen appealing to supporters at the King Power Stadium, raising his hands as if to encourage the noise in the stands.
After City’s previous home game, against Swansea, Maresca had suggested some supporters were taking his players’ effort and their number of wins for granted. But the manager’s actions on Tuesday evening were not linked to that, he said.
Instead, he just wanted the crowd to maintain the atmosphere to help keep up his side’s momentum. He felt that if City could have scored a third goal before the break, the game would have been over.
Maresca said: “During this season, I think it already happened four or five times that I tried it. It’s the moment for me after the second goal, if we are able to score the third goal before half-time, the game is almost finished. But we finished (the first half) 2-0, and you never know, they can score a goal and it’s complicated. The reason why was just that.”
In fact, it was the first time this season that City have led a home game by two goals at the interval. They’ve done it twice in the Championship away from home, in the recent 5-0 thrashing of Stoke and in the 4-1 victory at Southampton in September.
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