“Liverpool are one of the favourites the league”. Spurs were their closest challengers but they fell apart towards the end of the campaign.
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Key Stat: Liverpool are unbeaten at home to Leicester in the last five meetings between the sides at Anfield.
Under the ownership of Fenway Sports Group, the two have finally started working together and ahead of the long-awaited launch of the stadium, plans were this week presented to Liverpool City Council which show how the high street next to Anfield stadium could be transformed with shops, commercial units, homes and apartments. To do so they’ll need Jamie Vardy to score the way he did last season.
It has been more than 16 years since Leicester last won at Anfield – a game which saw Tony Cottee grabbing a goal in a 2-0 win against Gerard Houllier’s side. A trip to Spurs saw the reds handed a point.
“The Premier League is different from the Portuguese League but he is a very interesting player”.
Ranieri’s men suffered an opening day shock defeat to newly promoted Hull before going on to collect their first point at home to Arsenal.
While Liverpool’s attackers shined under the management of Klopp past year, the defence always looked shaky and the club has gone some way to addressing that issue with their summer signings.
It’s another season. It’s our first home game with 8,000 more in the stadium.
Leicester have successfully kept the majority of it’s title-winning team together.
Ranieri believes Vardy, last season’s 24-goal top scorer, will be ready for Leicester’s trip to Liverpool on Saturday because he did not feature for his country but wants him to prove a point to new worldwide boss Allardyce. He has largely shaken off the errors that used to blight his performances, and Liverpool fans will be hoping the Croatian can form a steady partnership with exciting new defensive addition Joel Matip.
“We are the only team in the Premier League to have played three away games”. He scored 27 goals in 33 La Liga appearances last season.
Meanwhile, Leicester City’s summer signing Islam Slimani is in contention to make his debut while Ron-Robert Zieler is expected to replace an injured Kasper Schmeichel. Mane’s fitness is a big plus for Liverpool this week and going forward.
“Another player with problems is Ragnar Klavan”. Luckily, Sadio Mane looks like he will be fit, despite picking up an injury during the worldwide break.
Emre Can too is set to miss out according to the Liverpool boss.
The Foxes will be the first visiting team to play in front of the new structure as Liverpool look to add to the four points they have collected so far this term.
It was, in Jordan Henderson’s own words, “a huge privilege” to succeed Steven Gerrard as Liverpool captain but there must have been times in the intervening 14 months when the armband felt a dubious honour to him. They are still good – all that stuff.
“Now we can also buy some players who are 26 or 27, who are more solid players and can help us”. Following that idea, the German bought to Anfield two very talented midifielders in the form of Georginio Wijnaldum from Newcastle United and a young talent from Red Star Belgrade, Marko Grujic. It will be hard for us but also for them.
Liverpool have conceded six goals in their first three games of the season, tied with Watford and Stoke City for worst in the league, despite having conceded only 7.7 shots per game, third best in the league.
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