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Brendan Rodgers has revealed the thinking behind the change of formation in Leicester City's season opener with Wolves.

The Foxes, with the exception of the double-header with Stoke and Rotherham, played a 4-1-4-1 formation through pre-season.

That system included a holding midfielder, two advanced midfielders, often James Maddison and Youri Tielemans, and then a front three made up of two wingers and a striker.

But to the surprise of many, for the season opener with Wolves on Sunday, which finished in a goalless draw, Rodgers reverted back to the 4-3-3 system he used at City for the majority of his time in charge last season.

The system saw Hamza Choudhury, Wilfrdd Ndidi and Youri Tielemans play as a three, and then James Maddison and Ayoze Perez played either side of Jamie Vardy at the top end of the pitch, though neither really played wide with an emphasis on narrow play.

The system yielded little success for City, who drew a blank in their season opener, managing just one shot-on-target in the entire game as Wolves' back five dominated the Foxes' frontmen.

And so after the game, we put the question to Rodgers to find out what the thinking was behind the switch of systems.

The City boss explained: "It was just, with two players either side of Jamie (vardy), so that we could try to provoke the three centre halves, so you had Jamie central and Ayoze (Perez) and James (Maddison) just playing off and the width then coming from the full-backs.

"It was 4-3-3, but just a different shape coming at the front.

"When we felt we needed more football in the middle of the field, Hamza (Choudhury) came off - and he did a good job - and then we put James back and put a winger on to look to stretch the game again."