For drama, it may pay to check out the coaches’ technical area as much as the field of play. “We made some mistakes and we have to think where we made them”.
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There have been a Premier League record five hat-tricks in this fixture. In fact the last time that a team won the Premier League for the first time ever, was back in 1977/78, when Nottingham Forest accomplished the feat. We’re now going into what is arguably the best division in the world and we have to turn up and perform. Those two clubs alone have dished out £322-million on players this summer, far more than any other team.
The clever decision of some BT executive to remove their punditry team from the sanctity of their glass-panelled studio and plant them on the touchline puts them just one kicked Lucozade bottle away from the action.
As for Leicester more specifically with their achievement last season, he added.
Having sprung one of soccer’s biggest surprises by winning the league last season, Leicester was on the receiving end of an upset after Robert Snodgrass rifled home Hull’s victor in the 57th minute.
Indeed, it does take a huge leap of faith to believe that such an eventuality can occur again, but Leicester’s fairytale gives hope to the rest of the league.
Also, signing a number of key players down to new contracts, including the likes of Wes Morgan, Kasper Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy, has shown that the Foxes are more than keen to stick-by the squad that earned them their maiden top-flight title last time around. The Premier League is preached as the Promised Land for football fans, but Hull supporters have got the kind of promotion hangover that involves you sitting by the toilet with a cold flannel on your face drinking Irn-Bru but spilling half of it down last night’s shirt, before attempting one bite of a bacon sandwich and retching violently.
Although, former Wigan Athletic midfielder, Shaun Maloney and Greg Luer are both available again after recovering from injuries sustained in pre-season.
‘We always had (togetherness),’ he said.
‘We can’t allow ourselves to be affected by what is going on off the pitch – we have to be prepared on it. We’ve got to stick together and I’m certain we can give most teams a hard game on our day. At the moment, the remit is the same – to take the team and prepare as best we can.
Rashford only made the bench for the first time in November, when Manchester United faced Watford, but he made his biggest impact in the Europa League against Midtjylland and he never looked back, scoring twice in that game, then netting two and providing an assist against Arsenal in the Premier League three days later.
Catch Premier League 2016 Live Streaming onYou can watch it live on Star Sports network. We had a list, those players have gone but players may want to come to this club now – results, performances and attitudes change things’.
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But for what it’s worth, we’ve picked Manchester United to win the league and Spurs, Manchester City and Arsenal to complete the top four.
