Gary Rowett admits he's run out of wisdom with Leicester on brink of relegation

Rowett said it’s up to his players to now show “pride and personal standards” with three games remaining, and with the potential for City’s fall into League One to be confirmed when they take on Hull on Tuesday.

The manager had said previously that failure to Portsmouth would mean City’s season was over, and while he was not willing to admit that at full-time at Fratton Park, he said he's run out of “words of wisdom”.

Asked if he still had belief in his team retaining their Championship status, Rowett said: “I can say we’ve got belief, but we need to show that in our performances and our results.

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“I said to the players we’ve got to start hoping we get a little fortune from somewhere else. But I don’t like saying that as a manager. I’m not interested in what other teams do, I’m interested in what we do.

“We have to be professional. As a player, if I had three games to go and I was already relegated, I’d still want to win all three of those games. I don’t care. It’s about pride and your own personal standards.

“For me, we turn up Tuesday and we have to do everything we can to win the game. It’s easy saying it. We’ve had two or three opportunities to show that extra bit of drive and we haven’t quite find it. We have to see if we can find it Tuesday.

“(I said to the players) I’ve got no words of wisdom to make it feel better. I’ve got no words of wisdom to make Tuesday feel so easy to win that game.

“The players are paid a decent amount of money to be professional. I don’t care what the league looks like, what position we’re in, I’d be fighting to feel better about myself in the last three games. That’s going to be what we’re trying to do.”

City lacked quality for an hour on the south coast, conceded again from a set-piece, and then failed to take their chances in the final 20 minutes.

Rowett again rejected accusations that City lacked fight, but did admit they lacked plenty of other attributes, including urgency.

“That’s been something labelled on the team over the course of the season,” Rowett said when asked if the team lacked fight. “It’s an easy way to blanket the team.

“I think we showed a lack of quality, a lack of composure, a lack of toughness in the one moment where we concede the set-piece. I understand, but it’s not a wrestling match.

“Maybe the sense of urgency late on where you’ve got overlap or you’ve got to run forward with a real sense of desire, maybe we lacked that.

“I think we’ve lacked quality in the right areas. We’ve had triple the number of shots on target over the opposition in the last five games yet we’ve come on the wrong side of lots of results because we can’t finish our chances.”