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The confidence of the Leicester City squad can be questioned, but not their mentality, manager Brendan Rodgers said after his side threw away a lead for the second straight game in defeat at Burnley.

City went ahead at Turf Moor but let the hosts recover, Ashley Westwood striking a winner to condemn City to a fourth defeat in six Premier League outings.

While Rodgers’ side improved on their dismal showing against Southampton from last weekend, they still gave up three points.

However, the boss dismissed any suggestions of weak character.

“I don’t think there’s any question about the mentality of the team,” he said. “I think it’s very strong. It’s going to happen. You’ll take the lead and you can get pegged back, and you can go on and win it or vice-versa.

“I don’t think there are any questions over the character of the team. Maybe the confidence is not quite at what it’s been, but the only way you put that right is by working twice as hard. That’s what we’ll look to do for Wednesday [against West Ham].”

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In fact, Rodgers said his side deserved to beat the Clarets, who had lost their previous four games.

City had 18 shots to the hosts’ eight, but only Harvey Barnes could convert, with Jamie Vardy seeing a penalty saved by Nick Pope.

“It was an easy game to analyse in terms of performance, I thought we deserved to win the game,” Rodgers said.

“We didn’t take our chances in the game and that was a mixture of their keeper making some brilliant saves and our finishing.

“We were disappointed with the second goal. The first goal, Burnley are very good at set-pieces and we didn’t quite react to the second ball.

“But I always thought we were dangerous in the game and looked a threat and played much better than what we’ve been in our last couple of games. We had that fluency back again.

“The disappointment was the second goal, it goes back to the basics of the game. The midfield player runs off our midfield and gets into the box and scores. His desire to score was greater than ours to stop it. That’s a huge disappointment for us. You have to have those things right in a game if you’re going to get anything.”