CLAUDIO RANIERI, Leicester manager, on how the title is not won yet. She returned to study as an adult, so there won’t be any new cars or dream holidays if the Foxes complete the fairytale.
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You can watch one of the most historic games in recent times when Louis van Gaal’s men take on Leicester City at Old Trafford online through streaming links. On Sunday there will be a very, very tough match.
Fans sporting Leicester shirts and blue face-paint queued for photographs with the Premier League trophy in a city centre bank on Friday and local landmarks have been lit up blue in anticipation of the team’s first major silverware since the 2000 League Cup. But we go with the same mentality.
With a squad of respectable but apparently run-of-the-mill players drawn from the lower leagues, unfashionable overseas clubs and discards from other Premier League clubs, they have embarrassed the league’s lavishly funded aristocrats. “If our strength is being solid and concentrated, then we must continue”.
The Foxes enjoy a seven-point lead over second-place Tottenham, who visit Chelsea on Monday.
Chris Smalling has been a rock at the back this season but United’s full backs must be prepared to face PFA player of the year Riyad Mahrez who is always a menace.
“To me, it was an opportunity, I went there, saw how it worked and came back here a better player”, he said.
Meanwhile, Leicester City appear unfazed by the significance of the occasion facing them.
Artist Richard Wilson spray paints a mural of Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri in Leicester, Britain.
She tells me she doesn’t support a particular English team. Another early goal against from the Algerian at Old Trafford would certainly settle whatever nerves the Foxes have as they inch closer towards clinching the title. But with $50,000 on the line it’s perhaps not surprising she’s become a Leicester fan over the course of the season.
The team are now top of the Premier League and are within a game of becoming champions, if they win at Manchester United on Sunday. Should Leicester seal the crown on Sunday it will be the fifth time the destination of the champions has been decided at Old Trafford.
“It is good for football in a way because it is a little bit of fresh air”. Louis van Gaal is determined to prove that Manchester United is still the same team with still the same capability of turning things around at most critical moments in the game.
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United boss Van Gaal is expected to field the same starting 11 as the one that beat Everton in the semi-finals of the FA Cup last weekend.
