Brugge’s Bjorn Engels, second left, sits on the pitch after being injured during the Champions League Group G soccer match between Club Brugge and Leicester at the Jan Breydel stadium in Brugge, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. That goal seemingly sent the Foxes into free-fall – they would lose their next four without scoring and go on to close the year rock bottom of the Premier League.
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As Connacht Rugby are also finding out, second-season syndrome is a genuine ailment that can befall even sides who have only just set an historical benchmark for what they consider to be excellence. They started their title defense losing 2-1 to Hull, followed by a painfully boring 0-0 draw with Arsenal. Ranieri said. “He took the responsibility”.
The Leicester squad flew back from Brugge on Wednesday night and Ranieri insists they can not have any excuses if they fail to perform on Saturday. They probably have the talent and players necessary to successfully play either way, but as of now they’ve yet to fully commit to one or the other. We hope to go through the group and play again. Another momentous week in the extraordinary recent history of Leicester City ends tomorrow with the prospect of a seemingly mundane Premier League game. When they go away from home, teams will have a go at them and that’s flawless, it’s when they play at home and have to break teams down that’s the problem.
LEI vs BUR PreviewLeicester C won the league previous year and are the title defenders this time, but they haven’t been able to play like last season till now.
“I’m so pleased with our performance because after the Liverpool defeat I was expecting something”. We played our style.
Albrighton fired in after Brugge made a mess of dealing with Luis Hernandez’s long throw and Mahrez scored a delightful free-kick after 29 minutes.
I wanted to convince Sergio (Aguero) that his talent in the box to score goals is natural. Shinji Okazaki didn’t dress for Leicester’s midweek Champions League clash despite being fit, so there’s a good chance the Japanese global starts fresh in Claudio Ranieri’s starting XI against Burnley.
The Foxes got their European campaign off to a flying start by crushing Club Brugge 3-0 in midweek, with a home match against Burnley up next for Leicester on Sunday morning AEST. “That gives us confidence and now we have to stay calm and put our minds on the next match on Saturday”.
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With such a comfortable lead, Leicester began to savour the novel experience of playing top-level European football and could have added a third before the interval when Danny Drinkwater rocked back on his heels and produced a stinging volley from outside the area.
