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Bobby Vincent

Every word Graham Potter said on Leicester vs Chelsea, BBC, Joao Felix, Mykhaylo Mudryk

A good week, Graham...

"It's been a really good week. Three wins. A determined performance against Leeds and then a great one against Dortmund and to back it up today is really good from the players because it's not easy to do that in the Premier League, so I'm delighted for them. I'm delighted for the supporters, they were fantastic."

It could've been more as well...

"Yeah, exactly. We were a few centimetres from a couple more goals ourselves, we had a couple of offsides, Leicester had chances themselves. So the game was in the balance but it was that quality from us in the end that saw us over the line."

Enzo Fernandez produced a really strong performance today. How good was he?

"He's a fantastic player, a young player. I think he's going to get better and better when he's with us more. He's just arrived to a new country and a new league so you always have to adapt to that. You can see his quality, when he gets the ball he passes forward. He sees everything."

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You've been accused of being a team of individuals rather than a proper team, but today was a team performance...

"It's been a team performance over the week. It takes time to develop that, but the spirit is growing. The togetherness I really like, fighting to play, ready to play. Marc Cucurella has been out of the squad for a while but has now put in two great performances. It epitomises what we need in the squad. I'm delighted for the players because it's been a tough period we've been through and now we can look forward to the weekend to try and finish off before the international break with three points."

There were some good goals out there today, too...

"Joao's goal that was disallowed was a fantastic move apart from the last bit that was offside. We had really good bits of play, I think you need that but we still had the resilience to defend as a team and play as a team. The players have the quality but it's on us to improve as a team, attack well and if we do that then I think we'll keep scoring goals."

Did this feel like the game where Mudryk really showed what he can do?

"He'll get better and better. He's a young player that hasn't that much experience, so each game he'll get better and better. His attitude is fantastic, he wants to help the team and work with the team. I'm delighted he got an assist and helped us."

Did Joao pick up an injury – is that why he was taken off at half-time?

"No, just tactically, I wanted to use an extra midfielder. I felt we needed someone who could ball win, a different profile and I thought Conor was fantastic when he came on."

What do you make of the BBC situation at the moment?

"Sorry, I haven't got too much to say about that because I was focusing on winning the game of football. I haven't got the capacity to look at the complexity of the situation, but hopefully it resolves itself."

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