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Sousa explains decision to leave out King
By LCFC | September 3, 2010
Leicester City boss Paulo Sousa believes he has been right to leave out midfielder Andy King for the last two games.
After starting the season brightly, King has surprisingly been named as a substitute for the Carling Cup tie at Leeds United and last Saturday's defeat to Reading.
King, who is away on international duty with Wales and will face Montenegro tonight in a European Championship qualifier, opened his account at Crystal Palace and scored his first international goal for Wales.
He has also had two strikes controversially disallowed for City against Middlesbrough and the Royals and looked in good form.
The 21-year-old, who scored 11 goals from midfield last season, has now vowed to win his place back in the City starting line-up.
However, Sousa said he stood by his decision, but stressed that all members of his squad had important roles to play.
"It was only a tactical decision (to leave King out against Reading) not a special reason," Sousa said.
"From what I saw I made the right decision. We started the game so well. We created a lot of chances and had two great chances to score. We were controlling the game.
"We made a mistake and conceded. Mentally after that we were a little bit down. But we reacted well and we have to show respect to the players who started because it is easy when we lose to look for scapegoats.
"Everyone is important for me but no-one is indispensable.
"I make my decisions on what I see in training. For me it is important to see players with a lot of commitment and after that I decide.
"Sometimes I make the best ones and sometimes they aren't good enough, but against Reading I felt I made good decisions in what I saw in the game because every time a player went into the game he made an impact.
"It is important for me to see strength on the bench. All the players are important in the squad and in my ideas, like Andy, to come off the bench and do everything he needs to do, tactically for me and for himself."
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