Leicester’s Maresca wants Fatawu to learn lessons after hat-trick

Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca says Abdul Fatawu still has many things to learn after the winger scored a hat-trick against Southampton.

The Foxes’ emphatic 5-0 win on Tuesday night, moved them four points clear at the top of the Championship.

Leicester need to win one of their remaining two games to seal promotion to the Premier League, though they could also go up if Leeds lose at QPR on Friday.

“He’s young, he needs to learn many things,” Maresca told BBC Radio Leicester.

“The problem with young players is they are up and down.

“I just said to him that the next two games, he is going to be on the bench,” the manager joked.

“Otherwise, he’ll start to shoot from everywhere, because he scored!”

Fatawu neatly slotted the ball in for Leicester’s first-half opening goal, before curling in from the edge of the area and then converting a Jamie Vardy pass late on.

“He deserves it,” Maresca added.

“He needs to learn how to manage himself, but the performance was very good.”