Brendan Rodgers drops big Leicester selection hint ahead of Liverpool trip after embarrassing FA Cup loss

Brendan Rodgers has admitted “time could be up” for some of his Leicester City players ahead of their trip to Liverpool.

The Foxes’ FA Cup defence came to a humiliating end as they were thrashed 4-1 by Nottingham Forest in the fourth round on Sunday.

Leicester were well and truly put to the sword against the Championship hosts at the City Ground, having found themselves three goals behind after just 32 minutes.

Rodgers’ men were expected to kick on this season after their Cup triumph but have been underwhelming and sit just 10th in the Premier League.

The Foxes face second-placed Liverpool at Anfield on Thursday (19.45).

Rodgers lambasted Leicester’s performance at Forest and demanded that his players ‘prove they’re good enough’ to play for the club.

Rodgers told the Leicester Mercury: “We’ve had a really good two-and-a-half-year spell.

“But that’s why a lot of these players are not top players. Because they can’t sustain it. That’s where I have admiration for the really top players who can keep that hunger and desire to win, no matter how much they achieve.

“I always judge it on the physicality of the team, the pressing, the aggression. When you stop getting it, you can’t quite get there, your time could be up.

“There are a lot of these players, between now and the end of the season, who need to prove that they are still worthy of being here. Because we’ve seen it now for a little while.

“Forget about the players who are missing. There are players here that may have achieved everything that they can here. It’s not what I want to do.

“It’s something we’ll have to look at between now and the end of the season. Until then, they’ve got to have a look at themselves in the mirror and fight like hell to prove they’re good enough to be here.”

Liverpool moved into the fifth round of the FA Cup with a routine 3-1 victory over Cardiff.