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ByAndrew AloiaBBC Sport, East Midlands and Owynn Palmer-AtkinBBC Radio Leicester
Leicester City's hopes of challenging for promotion back to the Premier League hinge on addressing their erratic form, says forward Bobby De Cordova-Reid.
The Foxes have won just two of their seven Championship games in the past month – a run which has them languishing in the bottom half of the table in 14th place.
A 90th-minute goal from Jannik Vestergaard rescued a point for the Foxes at Wrexham on Tuesday night, which meant they moved to within five points of the play-off spots despite slipping one place in the standings.
Leicester's ambition from the moment they suffered their second relegation from the Premier League in three years was to make an immediate top-flight return, as they did two seasons ago as Championship title winners.
Challenging for an automatic promotion spot, however, appears increasingly unlikely with Leicester 12 points adrift of the top two with 18 matches remaining.
When asked if Leicester's attentions are now shifting to trying to land a place in the top six and building a run that could take them up via the play-offs, De Cordova-Reid admitted the Foxes "need to get back to winning ways".
"The inconsistency hasn't been good enough from us," he told BBC Radio Leicester.
"We need to put a run together and we need to put good performances together over a 90-minute period."
Marti Cifuentes' Foxes have strung together back-to-back wins in the league only twice this term, while their longest unbeaten run was an eight-game sequence between late August and mid-October that included five draws.
Leicester have also combined one of the league's more prolific attacks with one of the division's worst defensive records.
While just five teams have netted more goals than Leicester, only two have let in more than the 41 the Foxes have conceded so far.
They have kept only three clean sheets in the league this season, with their last in the Championship coming in September.
"First and foremost, we have to get back to keeping a clean sheet and building from there," De Cordova-Reid said.
"When I talk about clean sheets it starts with us boys at the top [end of the pitch] and as a collective we need to work on that. Hopefully we can go into games with that mindset.
"I feel like we are always going to score and create chances, but as a team we need to keep the ball out of our net."
