Leicester 1-2 Aston Villa: What Cooper said

Leicester manager Steve Cooper, speaking to Match of the Day: "I thought we looked a good team at times today. We definitely didn’t deserve to lose the game. For the first goal, we need to own the set play – but it should never have been a free-kick.

"We’ve not just gone toe-to-toe with a Champions League team, we’ve also looked a better team than them. It’s a tough one to take. It’s three games now without a win, which is obviously not what we wanted.

"In the three games we’ve seen, we’ve seen more than enough in the performances to feel like we’re going to be OK [in the Premier League]. We’re disappointed with the defeat, but if we stay as we are and improve in areas we want to, we’ll be all right."

On referee David Coote: "It’s just something that you accept. That’s how it is across the league. When you see it a bit more casually, you notice it even more. It’s something you have to contend with, but you take a deep breath and accept that’s how it is.

"You’ll tell by the reaction of the supporters. We had a managers’ meeting at the start of the season about the threshold of challenges. The threshold is going to be higher, and today was the complete opposite."