Leicester boss Rodgers backs Vardy to end goalless run

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is confident Jamie Vardy will end his current drought and reach a century of Premier League goals.

The former England forward, 33, has scored 97 times in the top-flight but has failed to find the net in nine matches in all competitions.

Rodgers, whose side travel to bottom side Norwich on Friday, said he had no worries about Vardy's recent poor for form.

"It is only a matter of time before he gets back to scoring goals again," he said.

"He doesn't look like the nervous type to me." Vardy found the net in eight successive matches from mid-October through to early December but has just one goal in his past 12 games.

"Sometimes you get a run like it," Rodgers said. "Probably when he came back from his (glute) injury (in late January) he was maybe not quite up to speed.

"But I thought against Manchester City (in Saturday's 1-0 home defeat), you saw the return of that running power and speed.

"I have no doubt he will get the goals and beyond that. You don't force it, you don't put the pressure on, he knows that is his job. As long as he is contributing, then I'm fine."