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Brendan Rodgers said he has trust in his Leicester City squad as he prepares to ring the changes for the meeting with West Ham.

With just 45 hours and 30 minutes between the heavy loss to Liverpool and a trip to the London Stadium, Rodgers said he will rotate considerably for fear his key players will suffer injuries if they play twice in three days.

Jamie Vardy, James Maddison, Wilfred Ndidi, Ricardo Pereira and Ben Chilwell could all be given a rest, with Kelechi Iheanacho, Hamza Choudhury, James Justin and Christian Fuchs possibly coming in.

While manager at Swansea, Rodgers played twice in three days and made seven changes. Then, his Swans followed up a 1-1 draw against Tottenham with a 2-0 win at Aston Villa.

“Yeah [I expect a lot of changes], just purely for the welfare of the players,” said Rodgers, whose side have the second shortest turnaround over the festive period, after Wolves.

“We put so much into [the Liverpool game], physically and we have a massive January coming up for us as a squad and as a team.

“My fear would be that we’re risking too many guys getting injured if we’re playing at 5.30 on Saturday.

“Normally, in a day where your body is recovering, I’m going to need to make those changes.

“Players will want to play in every game but physically and mentally it’s hard to do that, especially to play at the level we want to.

“The only experience I’ve had of playing so close like this here, I go back to 2011. I was at Swansea, we played Tottenham on the Saturday, and then we were playing on the Monday against Aston Villa.

“Ironically, Villa had a fantastic result on the Saturday, beating Chelsea away, and went with virtually the same team on the Monday. They suffered through fatigue and energy. We were able to make seven changes and won the game.

“I’m not going to say that’s going to happen, but it gave us the opportunity because the team was fresh and had energy.

“Also, I have trust in the squad. I have trust in what we can bring to the game if we have to make the changes.”

Not only will Rodgers have to swap his players around, he will have pick them up again after a demoralising defeat to the league leaders.

“That’s what football’s about,” he said. “You’re not going to have it your way all the time.

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“That’s where the manager comes in, just to instil that belief. You’ve got to go back to your basics again when you lose games like [Liverpool]: work hard, get aggression back into your game and play your football.

“That’s what I’ll look to do, give them that confidence back.”