Arsenal will not change their style of play against Leicester City, according to manager Arsene Wenger.
Leicester: Everyone thought that Leicester would collapse in the Premier League when the second half of the season began. “I don’t deny [that the pressure is on us] but I take that in a very positive way and as an opportunity to show how strong we are”. In his first year with Leicester he has stuck with the same formation and the same starting XI for the majority of the season.
“I think sometimes I use a different formula”, Wenger told reporters.
In his pre-match media conference, the Frenchman claimed Leicester’s lack of European football could actually hamper, not help, as it leaves the players more time to think about the position they are in and feel the pressure of the chasing pack.
“They’re all massive, massive games, and we know it’s going to be tough, especially as they beat us 5-2 at our place earlier in the season.
It is important to put pressure on them because they spend a lot of money and if they don’t win it is a disaster”.
Less than six years after plying his trade for Stocksbridge Park Steels, and after stops at Halifax and Fleetwood, the 29-year-old is the league’s top scorer thanks to an 18-goal haul.
Instead, it sparked a 10-match unbeaten run that was halted by Liverpool in December, since when Leicester have scaled the summit on the back of another seven-game stretch without defeat. “I do not know how they will respond to that”.
The firefighter, based at Plaistow, added: “What surprised me was the bookie only let us put a fiver each on”.
Leicester, the surprise league leader, holds a five-point cushion over both Tottenham and third-place Arsenal with 13 matches left. We are close to continuing to dream with our fans.
“We must try to play the same, with the same intensity and spirit, and after we wait to see what happens at the end of the season”, said Ulloa, who has been outshone this season by the performances of striker Jamie Vardy.
“They are the favourites because they are five points away from the rest”.
“They have already won at Tottenham and Manchester City, their other nearest challengers, and a win at Arsenal would turn the unthinkable into the absolutely sensational”. First of all (you look at) your attendance and then you are being compared many times to foreign clubs.