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Looking ahead to WATFORD (H).

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davieG

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Every Leicester City player bar Callum Doyle and the suspended Harry Winks is available for Saturday's 3pm Championship clash with Watford.

Enzo Maresca had hoped that Wilfred Ndidi, Dennis Praet, and Yunus Akgun would prove their fitness over the international break, and all three are now in contention to take on the Hornets. Ndidi and Yunus have been sidelined with muscle injuries since the end of October, while Praet has overcome a back injury that has kept him out since mid-August.

Doyle is the only first-team City player who is not yet fit. He had surgery on his knee at the end of September and will be out for at least another three weeks.

 

“They are all working with us,” Maresca said at his press conference on Friday afternoon. "Only Callum is out. The rest are all available for tomorrow. Including Dennis.


“(Praet) is a good player for sure. If you remember, in one of my press conferences, I said the ideal pocket player for us is Dennis. Now he’s back. We need to see how he is and hopefully he can help us.

“Callum has started to run on the pitch. But he’s still far. At least three weeks.”

In the youth ranks, Will Alves is “back”, Maresca has said, but he is not yet training with the senior squad on a full-time basis. For Sammy Braybrooke, he is still recovering from his ACL tear.

“I didn’t see Sammy yet,” Maresca added. “He’s still recovering. Will, I’ve seen him many times. He works with us, not always, some days when we need him. He looks back. He’s a young player and he needs to enjoy football.

“You can see he’s a good player for sure. He has something different. Because of my experience in the past and also in general, with young players, you need to be careful.”

davieG

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Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca took the rare step of announcing a selection decision a day in advance with Hamza Choudhury to take over from the suspended Harry Winks against Watford.

Maresca often doesn’t even tell his players who is in the City starting line-up until the day of the game but at his press conference on Friday afternoon, he revealed that Choudhury would be in the 11 against his former loan club. Winks, who had started every Championship game before this weekend, is banned after picking up a fifth yellow card of the campaign at Middlesbrough.

Choudhury has been the deputy to Winks in the deep-lying midfield role and has featured in cup games there, so he knows the job. However, he should not be expected to play exactly the same way as Winks.

 

Initially, Maresca spoke more generally about what Winks’ replacement would need to do, saying: “Nobody can give us the same thing as Harry Winks. They are all different. We are going to use a different player who is going to give us different things. It’s difficult to find players who can give you the same as another player.

 

“Unfortunately he’s suspended but it doesn’t matter, nothing happened. We have another player who can play in his position. We are not going to modify the way we want to build or the way we want to play. For sure, the player in Harry’s position, he can give us something more in one way, but something less in another way. But it doesn’t mean we’re going to change the way we want to play.”

Then, when it was put to Maresca that he had a number of players to operate in a deeper role with midfielders returning to fitness over the international break, he revealed that Choudhury was the man who had been chosen. He said: “Hamza is going to play for Harry Winks. We considered that he's the right player.”

City look to get ball in behind

City face Watford off the back of an international break that has afforded Maresca more time with his players than he usually gets. He has used that to his advantage during previous intervals, working with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in September to get more out of the midfielder, and then with the wingers in October on the finer details that could help them in one-on-ones.

This time, he looked to make his team more effective at getting in behind. City face Watford off the back of two games where they have failed to find the net.

He said: “We tried to analyse a little bit all of our games. We tried to find some more solutions in behind, while always respecting the idea of how we want to play. After the process, we try to exploit a little bit more the space in behind.

“That doesn’t mean that we’re going to play long balls. It just means that after the process, we can exploit a little bit the space in behind. If it happens tomorrow, we’ll see.”

ClaphamFox

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10 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-press-conference-notes-8932379

 

Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca took the rare step of announcing a selection decision a day in advance with Hamza Choudhury to take over from the suspended Harry Winks against Watford.

Maresca often doesn’t even tell his players who is in the City starting line-up until the day of the game but at his press conference on Friday afternoon, he revealed that Choudhury would be in the 11 against his former loan club. Winks, who had started every Championship game before this weekend, is banned after picking up a fifth yellow card of the campaign at Middlesbrough.

Choudhury has been the deputy to Winks in the deep-lying midfield role and has featured in cup games there, so he knows the job. However, he should not be expected to play exactly the same way as Winks.

 

Initially, Maresca spoke more generally about what Winks’ replacement would need to do, saying: “Nobody can give us the same thing as Harry Winks. They are all different. We are going to use a different player who is going to give us different things. It’s difficult to find players who can give you the same as another player.

 

“Unfortunately he’s suspended but it doesn’t matter, nothing happened. We have another player who can play in his position. We are not going to modify the way we want to build or the way we want to play. For sure, the player in Harry’s position, he can give us something more in one way, but something less in another way. But it doesn’t mean we’re going to change the way we want to play.”

Then, when it was put to Maresca that he had a number of players to operate in a deeper role with midfielders returning to fitness over the international break, he revealed that Choudhury was the man who had been chosen. He said: “Hamza is going to play for Harry Winks. We considered that he's the right player.”

City look to get ball in behind

City face Watford off the back of an international break that has afforded Maresca more time with his players than he usually gets. He has used that to his advantage during previous intervals, working with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in September to get more out of the midfielder, and then with the wingers in October on the finer details that could help them in one-on-ones.

This time, he looked to make his team more effective at getting in behind. City face Watford off the back of two games where they have failed to find the net.

He said: “We tried to analyse a little bit all of our games. We tried to find some more solutions in behind, while always respecting the idea of how we want to play. After the process, we try to exploit a little bit more the space in behind.

“That doesn’t mean that we’re going to play long balls. It just means that after the process, we can exploit a little bit the space in behind. If it happens tomorrow, we’ll see.”

By this I assume he means we’re going to try to be a bit quicker and more direct when we get into good attacking positions. Which will be nice.

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kingfox

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If we can nullify the threat of Ken Sema on their left and their supply into Rajovic, then I fully expect a win.

 

Choudhury won’t give us what Winks does, but I’m not overly concerned with Winks missing, I think we can get on top of Watford’s midfield which can be very hit & miss.

 

I also expect Vardy to start this game, but I’m hoping Daka gets some minutes off the bench, his pace could easily hurt that Watford back line, especially if he plays off Hoedt. 

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Fox 4 Life

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8 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

I think you've forgotten the extraordinary rate at which Ipswich and more recently Leeds are picking up points. This isn't a typical Championship season. We have to be relentless and thankfully Enzo won't be thinking like you.

Leeds were pretty relentless in picking up that point at Rotherham 

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MalletFox

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Our midfield options for this game are so much stronger than the pre-International break with the likes of Wilf, Yunus and Praet back in contention. Will have options from the bench too which will be very handy! Fancy us tomorrow!

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Sunbury Fox

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7 hours ago, MalletFox said:

Our midfield options for this game are so much stronger than the pre-International break with the likes of Wilf, Yunus and Praet back in contention. Will have options from the bench too which will be very handy! Fancy us tomorrow!

Agreed, but I'm still very concerned that we are missing Winks for this game. Playing out through the kind of press Watford will deploy will be much harder without him, I fear. 

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Ric Flair

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17 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Could be that Souttar and Daka don't even make the bench tomorrow.

The irony is, our goals have dried up and them pair scored in both games they've played in the international break 😂

STEVIE B

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31 minutes ago, dynamark said:

Watch and see Hamza play a lot of balls straight back to vesty and the keeper , or get caught in possesion 

Thank you,  Ray O'Sunshine. 

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Chelmofox

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37 minutes ago, dynamark said:

Watch and see Hamza play a lot of balls straight back to vesty and the keeper , or get caught in possesion 

Bloody heck. Winks is a top drawer player, and ex international, who arguably shouldn't be in the league. Hamza is not as good, but each time he has been brought in this season he has done a good job and not let anyone down. 

 

Even with Winks, we've lost the last 2. Lets get behind Hamza today. There maybe mistakes and it won't be like watching Winks play, but maybe a change will actually do us good and spur everyone on a little more.

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Ric Flair

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46 minutes ago, Deeg67 said:

Almost surreal having a manager who understands how valuable Praet can be  when used properly.

Likely futile considering the bloke is one of the most injury players I've ever seen. He'd be the first player to be injured from using an air fryer.

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damolcfc

damolcfc

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It's matchday 😊😊😊🙌🙌🙌⚽️⚽️⚽️

 

That feeling 🦊🦊🦊

 

So excited for my LCFC AUDIO STREAM to play.... not play.... buffer..... miss the 1st 45mins.... 

 

But it's back.... yay🦊🦊🦊

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