Leicester City: Brendan Rodgers has one club left on big 6 hit list

After Leicester City sent Liverpool packing back up north, Brendan Rodgers turns his attention to another North West team to complete half a dozen unlikely victories.

As the 2019/2020 season drew to a close, Rodgers and his Foxes team were left licking their wounds as they slumped to a fifth placed finish that seemed unlikely. As they searched for the answers they wouldn’t need to have looked too far away from the team that beat them in the last game.

After the unlikely 3-1 victory over the Reds, Leicester have now claimed a remarkable five wins and one draw out of seven games against the supposed ‘big six’. Given the way Leicester performed last season against those big six teams, this seems ludicrous. Out of those twelve games last season Leicester amassed a grand total of two wins with not one of them coming away from home.

The Northern Irishman seems to have cracked something this season. His tentative approach against those big hitters always seemed to rely on stopping the opposition as opposed to exposing their flaws. This season he hasn’t been gung-ho but he has won the tactical battles against normally untouchable oppositions in Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and now Jurgen Klopp. It almost seems unfair to add the now former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard and under pressure Mikel Arteta to that list.

The one team evading boss and Leicester City’s

But there is one team that still evades his and Leicester’s clutches. It’s been six and a half years since arguably the greatest Premier League game of all time when Leicester shocked Manchester United 5-3 in a monumental occasion.

That was the last time that Leicester City retained any type of bragging rights over the Red Devils and its long overdue. Solskjaer’s men continue to be an enigma, losing at home to the bottom placed team one week and then beating another 9-0 the next. But they are a dangerous outfit that on their day can be a match for anyone.

Leicester arguably have better players in more positions than many of them but finishing below them last season when being better for large parts of the season must still stick in the throat. Rather than lick their wounds and accept that Manchester United are just a ‘bigger’ club, they seem determined to set the record straight.

The good news is that there are two more chances to finally put them to the sword with an FA Cup quarter final in March at the King Power and a visit to Old Trafford in mid-May to come. If Rodgers does complete a victory over them it will be a huge turnaround and shift in mentality of what they think of those top 6 clubs and also whether they themselves will ever be invited to be considered as one of those elite clubs.

As Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Savage said confidently after Leicester’s latest win: “Brendan Rodgers is an elite manager”.  The question still remains, are Leicester an elite Premier League club?