Leicester boss Enzo Maresca explains the 'difficult' lesson Pep Guardiola taught him at Man City

If Leicester win promotion back to the Premier League this season, there will be a clear influence of Pep Guardiola on the Foxes.

After relegation last season, Leicester turned to Manchester City assistant manager Enzo Maresca to get them back into the top flight at the first time of asking. Five games in to the new Championship season, and Maresca has Leicester well placed in third, just one point off leaders Preston.

Reflecting on his start to life at the King Power Stadium, Maresca says that lessons learned from Guardiola during his time at City show that it's important for Leicester to remember that winning games is much harder than it seems.

Leicester are favourites to win the Championship, but Maresca is keen for his side to remember that even City find winning difficult under Guardiola.

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“With Pep, I played against Barcelona and it was different to play against them than any other team. So I wanted to understand why," Maresca told the Sun.

“It was exciting, brilliant. I was coaching the Under-23s at first but at the same time I was close to the first team so in that case you can do both.

“You can train, play the way you want with your squad but also learn because you’re close to the first team so that was good. I learned last season that even though Man City have world-class players, there is so much work to do."

“You need to coach them every day. You need to teach them every day because they need to understand the way you want them to play. One thing I realised being there is that it’s difficult to win games and that’s something people struggle to understand. Only because you are at Man City, some people can think it’s easy but it’s