Leicester City’s supervisor Brendan Rodgers has been participating in brain games in advance of tomorrow’s vital Premier League tie with Manchester United.
The two sides meet at the King Energy Stadium in a leading-four showdown, with a position in subsequent season’s Champions League the prize for whoever can take the spoils.
The Crimson Devils will need just a point from the match whereas Leicester have to have to acquire, but Rodgers states the tension is all on United.
‘We go into the extremely final match towards one particular of the real superpowers with a probability of overtaking them for the Champions League,’ the Foxes’ supervisor said at yesterday’s pre-match push convention.
‘That tells you how effectively we have carried out. We can gain, there’s totally no doubt about that.
‘We want to be in the Champions League – United have to have to be in it. It’s a diverse sort of pressure. We’re however in there fighting and we’ve won major game titles this period.’
Rodgers also talked up striker Jamie Vardy at the presser, suggesting that United are in for a torrid time in opposition to the 33-12 months-aged.
‘He’s a big video game participant. This is a activity that is appropriate up his avenue. He’s been on hearth and I’m absolutely sure he would appreciate to finish the year on a genuine large.
‘These are the events when he definitely will come to the fore. The Golden Boot is an unique prize but he’s the male who finishes off our good get the job done for the crew.
‘We all want him to finish as the greatest scorer, which would be a remarkable achievement contemplating his age and almost everything.
‘He’s up there as one of the best strikers in the world. There’s various varieties of striker and at this existing time you have to see Jamie Vardy as 1 of the major strikers in globe soccer.’
One United defender who should know all about Vardy’s attributes is Harry Maguire, who played alongside his England teammate at the King Electric power for two several years.
United have shut out Vardy – and the full Leicester aspect – in their very last two encounters and have not missing a activity to the Foxes considering that the strange 5-3 defeat in 2014, when Louis Van Gaal’s bold range of Tyler Blackett backfired as the youngster was despatched off in the 83rd moment.
David de Gea and Marcos Rojo are the only United gamers to remain at the club from that commencing lineup 6 years in the past.
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