Former Leicester winger Matt Piper says Steve Cooper does not “help himself” with some of the comments he makes.

Speaking on BBC Radio Leicester’s When You’re Smiling podcast about the 3-0 loss at Manchester United, Piper said: “It was a particularly poor performance from the team, but also the manager – I don’t say that lightly.

“[Steve Cooper said] ‘he never felt like a goal was coming’. If you don’t feel there is a goal coming and you’re 2-0 down and you don’t make your first substitute until the 70th minute – that’s what I don’t understand.

“You’ve got to change it. You’re not going to score if you feel like that standing in your technical area.”

Leicester actually managed more shots on target than United in the defeat, but the hosts held a comfortable two-goal lead from just before half-time before completing the win in the final 10 minutes.

“I know a lot of fans are already to the point where they want him gone, but he doesn’t help himself,” Piper said. “He uses comments like that after the game but he didn’t do anything about it.

“As the manager and leader of the club, you have to do something about it to change the fortune on a particularly bad afternoon.

“He tells you straight away what the problem is but it keeps happening week on week and that’s really not helpful for the manager.”

Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds