Ranieri earned the reputation for continually rotating his squad during his four-year stint as manager of Chelsea. After a few games, whatever we did, people were going to compare to last season and say it’s a slow start. “We’ve had three away games in the Premier League – tough start”.
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Liverpool’s Brazilian midfielder Lucas Leiva can’t wait to see the new, extended capacity Anfield when Liverpool face champions Leicester City on Saturday lunchtime.
The BBC reported that the Merseyside club were willing to let the centre-back go out on loan, but Klopp has now said where he stands with Sakho.
“This is a good place, with the champions coming”.
The 24-year-old, who spoke to manager Jurgen Klopp to assure him of his fitness, told the Liverpool website: “I’m fit. Of course to win also you need a little luck, but they are ready to fight for the title”. “But now we have our first win, we can hopefully get up and running”.
“All the matches are important”.
“Everybody renewed their contract, they know very well they can play or can’t play – that is football at the highest level”, the Italian said. Perhaps a home advantage against Tottenham would have helped the Red’s fend off their opponents in a match they deserved to win.
Mellor, writing in his Liverpool Echo column, said that the Foxes are still a hard proposition despite an “unconvincing” start to the season by Claudio Ranieri’s side.
Ranieri will be hoping for a morale-boosting victory against Jurgen Klopp’s Reds before the Foxes make their Champions League bow against at Club Brugge on Wednesday evening. We won because we were better than the others. Then it makes sense after the long break if you think about how can you get match time? No, we are focused on the Premier League.
“Playing in the Premier League is a big difference compared to playing in Serbia so I know this time is about adapting”.
This is Liverpool’s first home game of the season, now that the new Main Stand at Anfield is finished, and I think they will mark it with a win. Burnley would love to play like Leicester I’m sure. Comparing the odds for the game on sites like BigFreeBets shows that there’s nothing between these sides and they’ll both be looking to right their seasons as quickly as possible, and a win here would do wonders for either side.
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“We do not expect them to come and celebrate themselves”.
