Leicester City v Leeds United: Premier League – live!

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Brendan Rodgers speaks.

Still such a long way to go and you can only train yourself. So it should be a really good game. We played really well up there this season, so we’ve got to stay focused. Papy’s played in a lot of big games for us this season and done exceptionally well so we’ve every confidence he can perform at a high level. It’s important in any team, of course, when you don’y have Jamie in the team, that incredible penetration in the middle of the field. Whenever he hasn’t played we’ve had to find another way to be creative and penetrate. Thankfully we’ve been able to do that. Hopefully he’ll be back soon. They’re still exactly the same, they go into every game with ambition. They want to create goals, they want to score goals. You have to make sure you can’t get involved in a basketball match, up and down the field. You know you will get chances and you’ve got to be ruthless in the game. It’s a tough game but they will play how they’ve played all season, very adventurous when going forward. They’ll give you space when you have the ball so the key is to exploit it.

Two teams who have had good seasons don’t feature in this, oddly enough.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2021/jan/31/leicester-city-leeds-united-premier-league-live

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