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Leicester City's development team manager Steve Beaglehole has praised his team for their run of eight games without defeat, but he couldn't hide his frustration following Monday night's draw with Norwich City.

The Foxes played out a 1-1 draw with the Canaries' youngsters in the Premier League Cup on Monday evening, with Admiral Muskwe getting the all-important first-half equaliser.

Leicester were left disappointed not to take all three points from the clash, but it does extend their unbeaten run to eight games, across league and cup action.

And that's something worth praising, says Beaglehole.

Following the game, he told Leicester City's official website: "As a team we didn’t lose, that’s eight games unbeaten, which in any standard of football is good.

"It’s good to be consistent in terms of not losing games."

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Though, despite making it eight unbeaten, Beaglehole couldn't hide his disappointment with the result itself.

Calling for improvement from his team, he added: "I think it was a sloppy start, I didn’t think we started at the right tempo.

“We went down to a poor goal where we didn’t defend properly around the box, which is not like us.

“Then, of course, away from home if you go down a goal 10 minutes into the game then you make it difficult for yourself.

“It was quite scrappy...then I thought we got really into the game, we dominated and had several chances, where we should have put the ball in the back of the net.

“We should have been 1-0 up previous to that when Alex Pascanu had a header four or five yards out and just really needed to put his head through it.

“But we got into the game and we got the goal back, a great goal from Adi (Muskwe).”

Leicester currently sit second in their Premier League Cup group, sitting seven points behind Nottingham Forest and three ahead of nearest challenger Norwich with two games remaining.

The Foxes are also going well in their league campaign, sitting second in Premier League 2, Division One, just one point behind leaders Everton.

And the positives don't end there. Beaglehole may have been disappointed with some aspects of his team's performance on Monday night, but he was delighted with two players in particular.

Luke Thomas and Edward Elewa-Ilpakwu stepped up from the under-18s side to represent the under-23s age group, and they didn't disappoint.

"For me the best player on the pitch tonight was Luke Thomas, a young player, captain of the Under-18s," continued Beaglehole.

“I played him out of position because Bassey (Calvin Ughelumba) has been playing well for us at left-back.

“But he showed more composure than our senior players, better decision-making at times and I was pleased with him.

“Ed (Edward Elewa-Ilpakwu) came on, another Under-18s youth team player, and for me, they’re the positives tonight.

“The youngsters in the group and the performance of Luke. Also, Adi scoring a goal again, it was great after the number of games he’s missed over the last two years.”