Leicester City not thinking about the title race, says Christian Fuchs
Leicester City are not thinking about “who is going to be champions,” says Christian Fuchs as his side prepare to face Manchester City on Monday.
The Foxes go to the Etihad Stadium with Liverpool’s complete fanbase wanting them to get a positive result against the Citizens.
Leicester have already beaten City before in December, when they secured an emphatic 2-1 win that effectively saved Claude Puel’s job at the time.
While absolutely no one believed that Leicester could beat City in December, the number of the believers is fairly high this time around, as is the number of those who think that former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers will redeem himself by beating City and handing over the Premier League title to Liverpool. Talk about being optimistic.
Fuchs, however, is not least concerned about that. All he wants is to do well and win the game. Good lad.
"“Our ambition is to play good football, to develop ourselves,” Fuchs told Sky Sports News.“Next season we definitely want to be better again.“Over the last couple of months we have really developed a lot with our new manager. It’s a great joy to come to Leicester and play for the team.“We want to win [in Manchester]. We’re not thinking about who is going to be champions, that’s not our game.“We want to play a good game, have a good performance. If we get something it helps us with our ambitions to qualify for Europe.“Whether Manchester City or Liverpool become champions is none of our business.”"
Well, this is going to be some game if Rodgers doesn’t go for the exceptional and chooses the sensible instead.
Bravado has been an issue with the Irishman, but he did show signs of improvement against Arsenal by going for two defensive midfielders in a five-man midfield to completely dominate the middle of the park. Read more about that here in our tactical analysis of Leicester’s 3-0 win over the Gunners.
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If Rodgers can show a similar will to curb his natural instincts against Pep Guardiola’s geniuses, then we might have a chance of seeing what Liverpool want to see. Bring on the game already.