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Ben Chilwell has pleaded with the Leicester City fans to stick with Claude Puel’s youngsters as they continue to develop.

The left-back is a shining example of the transition taking place at City as manager Claude Puel transform them from the side that won the title in 2016 to a younger squad he hopes will challenge for honours again in the future.

Chilwell has gone from the under-23s to establishing himself as City’s first-choice left-back under the Frenchman, and has now become a full England international in the last 18 months, and he isn’t the only one to emerge.

James Maddison and Demarai Gray have also been included in England squads by Gareth Southgate, while Hamza Choudhury and Harvey Barnes have graduated from the academy to become first-team starters this season.

Chilwell said he can understand the frustrations of the City fans, especially at the King Power Stadium, but he said the youngsters are learning and making progress.

“If you look at the team now from the team which won the league it’s pretty much a different 11 and it’s a very young squad,” he said.

“The fans expect results which is understandable but it’s a young team which is learning.

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“We’re not scrapping in a relegation battle. We’re doing okay, playing good football and getting results against the bigger teams.

“We just need to carry that on against sides in and around us in the league.

“Of course, the manager, us, everyone at the training ground are all trying our best.

“It would be nice if they were patient with us but you can understand they expect results with the quality we have got.

“The gaffer has put a lot of faith in the youngsters and in terms of learning and improving we have done that well.

“We are not going to have brilliant performances where we win every week but the quality in the team, if we can build on that in the next few years, it can only go up.

“It’s a learning curve for us and we are learning and definitely improving. That’s the main thing you have to take from the past few weeks. We can throw ourselves about against the top teams.

“We are improving to be fair, the last two games we have shown how good we are as a team – defensively in the Liverpool game and then attacking on Sunday as we created a lot.

“There’s a lot of positives to take. Going 1-0 down is the main thing we have to work on as it’s happened a lot this season.

“We are working on it and feel like after we go 1-0 down we do always react quite well.”

The source of much of the discontent amongst a section of the supporters is the fact City have picked up just four wins on home soil this season, and Chilwell said it something the players are fully aware of and are trying to rectify.

“In hindsight you always look back and think if we’d got points in these games where we’d be in the league, then you could say the same for the games we have won which we maybe shouldn’t have,” he added.

“You can always look back but it is frustrating.

“The home form is something we are normally very good at and we’d like this to be a fortress.

“It’s just not quite going for us at the moment. We are playing well and creating chances but not putting them in.

“We’ve taken on two of the best teams in the country and we’ve played well and deserved more from both games.

“It shows how good our team is, especially a young team.

“It’s good to see us playing well against a good team but we need to carry it on against the rest of the league as well.”