Danny Drinkwater gave Leicester a first-half lead before second-half efforts from Lee Peltier, Ben Marshall and Paul Gallagher completed the rout.

Leicester are five points adrift of a play-off place and running out of time but Shakespeare insists the deficit can still be overhauled.

He said: "It was a lacklustre start, but you have to be pleased to come away with four goals and a win. It does keep our play-off hopes alive, but we are running out of games.

"We have to take each game as it comes and try and take three points against Ipswich and hope other teams around us drop points.

"I still think there will be one play-off place to be had going into the last game, and whether it will go to goal difference I don't know.

"We have to go to Ipswich, play on the front foot and take the game to them and try and come away with a result."

Disappointed

Doncaster manager Dean Saunders was unable to hide his disappointment at Rovers' ongoing problems but remains adamant his team can still escape relegation.

He said: "I'm obviously disappointed to lose the game 4-0 but I don't think the scoreline was a fair reflection of the game.

"It seems I'm doing the same press conference after every game. We missed and missed chances and you have to take chances when they come.

"We had six chances to score in the first half and we missed them all.

"Our build-up play was good and I felt we were the better team in the first half. The second goal going through Carl's legs killed us off and then Ben Marshall scored a great goal.

"But every week we miss chances - we had 14 chances at Crystal Palace and ended up 1-1.

"We can still get out of trouble. Everyone around us keeps doing us favours by dropping points. I'm not going to give up."