"We Had A Point To Prove" - James Maddison | Leicester City vs. Nottingham Forest

James Eggle, do you feel that way? A win, a clean sheet, a couple of goals, a special night, yes, a brilliant night, yes, and one that we obviously needed a lot. It's been a bit of a difficult period for us and confidence has been a bit low, as expected. It's not when you're at the bottom of the table and you haven't won in the league after seven games or whatever. It's hard to be confident, you may tell yourself you're not low on confidence, but almost subconsciously you are. as a group and you're waiting for that first win and it was a brilliant night for us, you know the local Derby Monday Night Football under the lights and it was a brilliant performance for a packed KP who are actually happier you say.

Maybe you lacked confidence, but you came out fired up. A bright start saw Woods among them in the locker room before the game to get going. Yeah, well, tonight we had a little bit of a different team talk from the coach. I hope not. I don't mind explaining myself a little bit, but he showed us a video in the locker room just before we came out basically clips from last year's game at Forest and they have their goals and what all the hangers were saying and it was you. I know it's a little frustrating to see, actually, it probably turned us on in some way, so it was obviously very smart and we went out with that in mind and we knew we had to get one back because that's what local dogs are all about, that was almost like We had a bitter taste in our mouths from Forest's FA Cup game last year so I knew we had a

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and I think we did it brilliantly before the post hit and maybe it could have been a different game at that moment, but then to you and the first goal just puts everything in our favor, yes, I think over the course of the game we were clear winners and, better in all aspects, they obviously had the opportunity to hit the post, apart from that in the end they had very little, we had a lot of opportunities, a lot of ball, a lot of attacks, so I think we deserve winners and a really positive performance.

Your scoring streak continues, a slight bend, the free kick, although excellent as always. Yeah, well, the deflector goes inward anyway. It didn't really matter, the free kick was obviously nice. I've said many times that spectators will probably get bored of hearing it, but I practice free throws all the time and from that position I relied on myself to score all the time, so. I'd be disap

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ed if it didn't hit the net so I'm very happy with that one and you delivered both goals, it was your ball towards Jamie for Harvey's goal and then the ball towards Patson and a brilliant finish, yes no I felt a threat tonight .

I felt very good, I felt very strong, I fit in well, it was very dangerous in the upper areas of the field, as I have always been, but obviously it is always a night of freedom when you win the game and when you score or assist, and as a player of attack you don't do it. winning the game is almost like you want that feeling that you can't replicate to contribute to the victories, so very happy for me, for the team, for the coach, for everyone, when is the team score as a team with the clean sheet?

Well, exactly and that was very necessary, I think because obviously we have sent a lot of goals, we have talked a lot about clean sheets and they don't just come from the goalkeeper and the defender. I think that's obviously obvious, obviously, I think. I've said before that it might be the first time, but it comes from the whole team, from Preston up front to the solid midfield and the goalkeeper making saves throughout, so we're all very happy with the kimchi. I mean your personal form, maybe I don't know the best thing about your career. You can answer that, but you must be really enjoying your football right now and now the results are coming, yes, exactly, and like I said, it's always better with the results. but personally, yes, I don't think I have ever felt so threatened on a football pitch in my career in terms of contributing to goals and assists, and I just feel very good and in good rhythm and confidence is high on the personal front. , so I hope you can continue to do that, bring that to the team and that will hopefully lead to more wins for the team, so the last one in the support will be the first Top Flight Derby in quite a while.

They supported you until the end and then at the end, walking around the stadium and seeing The Smiling Faces must be great for you and for them too, yes, it lifted us from the first minute, brilliant. I love that song, the song that plays right on I think it's brilliant when everyone sings and the rawness when the first goals went in was, uh, it was really nice, it really lifted us up and kept us in the lead, which was important, so That thank you very much.