Algeria global, Riyad Mahrez, was on good form for the English Premier League champions, Leicester City, he scored twice as the Foxes beat Club Brugge, in their first group game.
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The Foxes return to the Premier League when Burnley visit the King Power Stadium on Saturday following Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League win at Club Brugge.
Asked if the bell specifically applies to Riyad Mahrez, who scored a brace against Club Brugge to prompt suggestions from the Italian that the Champions League music woke him up, Ranieri joked: “No, I put the headphones on him”.
“From our first chance we scored and from that point we had the control of the match and Brugge had the control of the ball”, said Ranieri. “It’s not easy but we have started well and this will give us confidence”.
There will be tougher matches to come for Leicester – their next fixture is a home tie against Group G favourites Porto on 27 September – but the romp against Brugge will have given the Foxes the self-belief that they’re good enough for the Champions League.
“We’ve got to this level of football life where that would normally be done down, but because they won at Man City and then went on to win the league it’s been rightly lauded”. Despite the fact that Claudio Ranieri his statements, trying to take the pressure off the players, repeating nearly every conference, Lester – an outsider, apparently, himself prophesied. Maybe he is very exhausted of listening to dilly-ding, dilly-dong and prefers the Champions League music!
Leicester City’s debut in the Champions League was so accomplished, resulting in a 3-0 victory away to Club Bruges on Wednesday night, there was only one issue that remained unresolved. It was scrappy stuff and a gift as Brugge got into an almighty mess but sent the travelling 1,400 Leicester fans into raptures. He’s formatting it more on what the players offer rather than “I’m the manager, I’m going to tell you what to do”.
If you want to hear the Champions League anthem in all its glory then you have to hear Kyle Walker’s angelic rendition… “We have to perform better offensively and defensively if we want to win that kind of game”.
‘I make now every time a big mistake.
Leicester could have won by more, though, Robert Huth heading just wide from an Albrighton corner late on.
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“But we have started well”.
