Brendan Rodgers makes promise over 'glaring' issue as Leicester City's pre-season begins

While fitness will be the focus early in pre-season training for Leicester City, it will not be long before Brendan Rodgers turns his attention to fulfilling his promise.

Members of the City squad are due back at Seagrave from Monday to prepare for the new campaign, and one of the big priorities over the six weeks leading up to the first Premier League game is finding a solution to the set-piece frailty that was their undoing last term. In the Premier League, 20 of the 59 goals City conceded were from dead-ball situations, while a corner was the difference as they were knocked out in the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League.

Even a mediocre record at defending set-pieces would have seen City save themselves eight or nine goals, which would have pushed them up the table and allowed them to challenge Manchester United in sixth. Rodgers knows this, and has said it is his responsibility to find a fix this summer. He has guaranteed there will be improvements for the new season.

“My only promise is that we will be better for sure next year, once we’ve had the summer,” he said before City's players broke up for their holidays. “We always looked to improve that and went into every game with the notion that we would, but with very limited time to work on it, it can be difficult. Certainly come the summer and going forward, if nearly half of our goals that we conceded are from corners, then it’s glaring where we need to improve for next season.

“That’s on me, that’s my responsibility, I’m the manager and I have to fix that. There’s been not a lot of time to do it in terms of actual work, it’s my job to do that, and I guarantee you it will be better next year.

“The actual structure of our defending in terms of our pressing