The Premier League champions have managed just four points from as many games in their domestic campaign so far but they secured an impressive 3-0 win on the road in Europe on Wednesday.
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Ranieri has demanded his players refocus on the league after their continental commitments, indicating he will ring a bell from the sidelines if he feels they are not performing.
But for Marc Albrighton, the scorer of Leicester’s first Champions League goal, and Claudio Ranieri, the manager who has overseen their rise, defending their Premier League title remains the key objective. “We’ll have a meeting about Burnley now and we’ve got to get our heads switched on to them”. Clear your mind because in the next match, the opponent wants to beat us. “If they think about the music I ring my bell”, Ranieri said.
“I think Riyad thinks he has to do something extra-special every match but that’s not possible”.
Claudio Ranieri admits that he was “expecting a response” from Leicester City in their European tie against Club Brugge, but is unsure what to expect this weekend. One we lost, one we won – it’s finished.
“For us everything is new, I want to see how my players respond”, the Italian told a news conference on Friday. The odds of them winning the Champions League were tumbling on Wednesday, with one bookmaker pricing them at 40-1.
I don’t know if it was a fair result or not, but we believed until the end. We know very well that it will be a battle. “But there is more to their game than getting the ball forward quickly – they can play”. I am very happy with his performance. You fight, today you may play well, if tomorrow you play so-so it is not important. “It’s something that I’m sure they’re all proud”. “It was good for us to start our story with a victory”.
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The Clarets will be aided in their attempt to win by the likely absence of Danny Simpson, Jeffrey Sclupp and Nampalys Mendy from the Leicester squad. It was a similar case in 2014/15 where they went W3-D5-L11 on the road with six of these defeats by just a single goal.
