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Leicester City manager excited at Daniel Amartey's return
The versatile Ghanaian defender featured for the "Foxes" in his first competitive game since suffering a career-threatening ankle injury against West Ham United in an English Premier League encounter in October 2018.
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Rogers expressed his happiness as Amartey saw 90 minutes of action in his first major outing in almost two years.
“A lot of these players are getting [their] first minutes of the season. Daniel Amartey [is] playing his first game in nearly two years," Rogers told his club's website.
"If you’re going to lose the game, you want to lose it with that mentality and the attitude, and I think the players gave us absolutely everything.
“We just probably ran out of legs a little bit towards the end and that obviously affected our quality in the final third.
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“You never want to lose a game, but if you do and you have that attitude and energy then it always bodes well going forward.”
“We’re disappointed with the goals, that was our only criticism, but we had lots of positives. Daniel Amartey with his first game in two years, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas did well too."
“Amartey has consistently trained and his mentality is first class. He’s a very honest guy, his defensive qualities are strong and how he lasted the game was very good,” he added.
Amartey is expected to make the matchday squad tomorrow when Leicester host West Ham in a Premiership encounter to the King Power Stadium in an early kickoff game.