Jannik Vestergaard’s late equaliser at Wrexham did not change the mood in the camp, with City barely celebrating the goal

Marti Cifuentes looks on prior to the Sky Bet Championship match between Wrexham AFC and Leicester City

Leicester City are a team of “human beings who are suffering” with their late equaliser at Wrexham unable to lift the mood around the performance, according to manager Marti Cifuentes.

It was scarcely deserved, with Vestergaard’s finish the only shot City mustered in the half-hour they had to respond to Lewis O’Brien’s opener.

Cifuentes felt his team showed their emotions too much upon conceding, hence their struggles to create chances in reply. He wants his team to keep their cool until full-time.

“[The goal] doesn’t change that we are disappointed,” Cifuentes said. “We always want to get the three points. That’s why we’re here.

“I don’t care if it’s away, I don’t care if it’s a team that’s in a good trend. We always want to get the three points. One point, it’s much better than zero but it’s not what we wanted.

“We had to do much better. When they took the lead, emotionally it affected us a lot, it was a lot of frustration for the players.

“The emotions are not always easy to handle. We had to do better. I know, the players know. That’s why the frustration is there.

“It’s important they show they want, that they care. When we show frustration, it must be after the game, not during the game.

“I think it’s definitely there are human beings who are suffering because we are not happy with how things are going. We want to do much better for our fans, we want to do much better for the club.

“It’s important we keep our heads cool during the game while playing with passion. Football is a game and it’s important that everybody expresses that through playing and through being more eager to get the ball, to attack more, to show this passion through the game.”

The match was a low-quality affair throughout, not helped by the swirling wind and pouring rain. But Cifuentes actually felt City did well in the first period.

“Again it was a game of two halves,” he said. “The conditions in the pitch, in the stadium, influenced a lot the development of the game.

“The first half we were able to play quite high, to put pressure high on the pitch and most of the minutes we were playing in their half, which is always a positive.

“We had a couple of good chances and situations we should have taken. Because of the conditions, we knew it could change the game in the second half.

“We know Wrexham are in a good dynamic, they’ve got good players and as well an aggressive and direct style. We know in these windy conditions they will try to put pressure on.

“It was difficult for us to play through this man-to-man pressure they were applying. It was difficult to play in behind because of the wind. We had to go through, on the ground. It was not good enough. The second half was not a good one.

“But credit to the players, they fought until the end and it’s a point.”