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Leicester City boss Gary Rowett spoke BBC Radio Leicester following Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Swansea.

"I'm really frustrated. If you look at the first half, OK we were not at our best but I still felt as though we just shaded the first half and we had slightly more chances," he said.

"Sometimes it feels like we've got to score the perfect goal, or a worldie of a goal from 30 yards away, and that's not how the game works. Occasionally you have got got to score different types of goals.

"The 10 games I've had here has felt like 40 because the way we have given goals away and have given teams a lift in a time when they haven't really had to go and earn it.

"It's a ridiculous decision to try and play a short free-kick when the box is open and we have everyone loaded up in the box. They then run the length of the field and end up scoring, which shouldn't happen.

"We keep making poor mistakes. And from that point on you want to see, and I certainly wanted to see, a better reaction. I wanted to see a more desperate team fighting for their lives trying to get back into the game.

"But we just fizzled out, really. It was our reaction to that goal that was the poorest thing and most disappointing thing.

"Ultimately, we've got ourselves into this mess and we have to get ourselves out of this mess. And it's a big week coming up."

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The EFL has announced the fixtures for the 2026-27 season will be published at midday on Thursday, 25 June.

The first-round draws for the Carabao Cup and the Vertu Trophy will be made on the same day.

The new season will kick off on the weekend of August 7-9 with the first round of the Carabao Cup, and the opening fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two will follow a week later on 14-16 August.

The first round of the Vertu Trophy will be played in the week commencing 21 September.

Leicester City suffered a "sucker punch" in their fight for Championship survival when they failed to beat already relegated crisis club Sheffield Wednesday, says former Foxes defender Michael Morrison.

Monday's 1-1 draw with the Owls left Leicester in the bottom three with five games remaining.

And with the Foxes managing only one win from 15 league games since early January, Morrison says they missed the chance to take control of their own destiny.

"They have probably got to win three games to get over the line, especially with [relegation rivals] Portsmouth having a game in hand," he told BBC Radio Leicester.

"It was a real sucker punch not to go get that win [at Sheffield Wednesday]. As a football club you need to take advantage of these moments and that was certainly one that was missed .

"You could look back at the end of the season and say that was 'the point where it looked really dangerous and look where we got relegated'.

"It was such an opportunity to get out of that relegation zone, which then brings together that confidence and that bit of life in that fight."

You can listen to more interview and analysis on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast on BBC Sounds.