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Leicester City manager Marti Cifuentes, speaking to BBC Radio Leicester after his side's 2-1 defeat by Hull City on Tuesday:

"A really bad first half, probably the worst first half of the season. I take responsibility because I'm not happy with the performance.

"I'm not happy at all. It's far from the standards I want. It makes me feel very angry.

"The way we defended the second goal, we missed the transition. The tracking back should be better. Especially in this league, there is some basics we need to be better at. I take responsibility for that.

"It makes me reflect about a number of things. We know we are at the start of this process, but that is no excuse.

"In the second half, we had a lot of chances. I think there was only one on target. We need to reflect on how we improve in the final third. No one can be dominant for 95 minutes. We need to cope better with the opposition's momentum."

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Promising Foxes striker Jake Evans has signed his first professional contract with Leicester City.

The 17-year-old, who made his Premier League debut against Brighton in April, featured in four top-flight games last season.

While he has yet to feature in the first team this campaign, Evans has scored three goals in five PL2 games for the under-21s and struck twice in the Premier League Cup last Friday against Charlton.

Northampton-born Evans has been part of the club's academy set-up since the under-9s.

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Leicester boss Marti Cifuentes is jumping at the chance to get back on the pitch at Hull City on Tuesday night after the disappointment of being held at home by Portsmouth.

A fifth draw in their last six matches on Saturday night was a setback for Leicester's promotion aspirations but their manager wants them to take out the frustration on Hull at the MKM Stadium.

The Tigers won 3-2 at Birmingham City on Saturday and after an inconsistent start under Sergej Jakirovic have lost just once in their last six Championship fixtures .

"When you have this feeling almost of a defeat, when you have a bad feeling, I think the best thing that happens is that you want to play immediately," Cifuentes told BBC Radio Leicester.

"It's a quick turnaround and we are going to get all the guys together, try to recover, try to analyse what we could have done better and and bring the positives into the game.

"We want to be very self-critical on the things we need to improve and make sure we improve our performance because Hull are coming from a strong win away and we can expect they will be in a good mood playing at home and we will definitely have to be at our best to get the three points."

Hull City are going for three league victories in a row for the first time since the start of October last year.

Leicester's only Championship defeat so far this season came in their first away game of the campaign at Preston North End.

• Hull have only won two of their past nine league meetings with Leicester City (D3 L4), with the most recent ending 2-2 in March 2024.

• Leicester have only won one of their past five league trips to Hull City (D2 L2), winning 1-0 in the Premier League in December 2014.

• After their 1-0 win over Sheffield United, Hull could win back-to-back home league games for only the second time since the start of last season, last doing so in March.

• Leicester have won as many of their five away games in the Championship this season (2) as they managed in 19 on the road in the Premier League last term.

• Hull's Oli McBurnie has been directly involved in 15 goals in his past 14 home league games in English football, scoring 10 and assisting another five. McBurnie scored in both of his two previous home league matches against Leicester as a Sheffield United player.