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Claude Puel is confident of a stay of execution at Leicester and expects to be given until the end of the season to try to win over unhappy fans.

Puel remains the bookies favourite to be the next Premier League boss to be sacked.

Rafa Benitez, Brendan Rodgers and David Wagner have all been linked with the Frenchman's job at the eighth-placed club.

But Mirror Sport understands Puel, 57, has been told his future is not under immediate threat after taking charge in October 2017 on a deal until 2020.

A third successive loss at Wolves on the back of defeats to 10-man Southampton and an embarrassing FA Cup exit to League Two Newport has seen some fans turn on Puel.

Yet there is little desire currently within the corridors of power at the King Power Stadium for fresh upheaval.

It follows the tragic helicopter disaster at the club in October which cost the lives of all five passengers including owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

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A successor as chairman has not yet officially been announced even if vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, known as Top, is now running the club in a period of grief and adjustment.

In the meantime Leicester have continued their malaise of starting games badly.

They have now conceded first in 15 of their 23 Premier League matches this term after Diogo Jota scored after just four minutes at Molineux.

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Puel assessed: “Often we concede the goal and then have difficulties to manage the game in the right way.

“We have to correct this.

“The inconsistencies at the start of the game, we cannot accept this.

“We will try other things to prepare our beginning to our games because it is a big shame because there is not always the possibility to come back into the game.”

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Puel says Leicester's players must now practise starting games better ahead of their next game at leaders Liverpool on January 30.

He added: “We can repeat things in training, simulate kicks and can have words but after it is the situation of the day of the game with the spirit, with the warm-up and all the right details.

“We have to give the first feeling with our intensity, to play forward, the first press, the first battle.”