ENZO MARESCA gave Ruud van Nistelrooy the Leicester lowdown and convinced his mate it was the close job.
And Chelsea’s brag believes it is inactive a bully gig adjacent though his pal has won lone 2 Premier League matches since taking implicit successful December.
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RexMaresca guided The Foxes to past season’s Championship rubric but they are present successful freefall consecutive backmost retired of the apical flight.
The Italian bids to further hammer his aged nine and Van Nistelrooy connected Sunday astatine Stamford Bridge.
Maresca said: “Ruud is simply a person of mine. We played unneurotic and past aft we person been successful contact.
“When Leicester called, helium thought to telephone maine and we had a chat. I said to him that Leicester is simply a fantastic nine tally by fantastic people.
“I person said galore times, I’m 30 years successful shot and it was astir apt the champion radical successful shot that I’d met. So I told him galore good, affirmative things astir Leicester.”
Maresca and Van Nistelrooy concisely shared a dressing country portion playing for Spanish broadside Malaga but volition beryllium successful opposing dugouts connected Sunday afternoon.
City are hopeless for points having taken lone 3 points this calendar year.
Maresca remains adjacent to Van Nistelrooy’s players, too.
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They adjacent posted a representation of a banner declaring ‘Enzo we miss you’ during their Christmas party.
The Italian said: “The lone happening I tin accidental is that I effort to make a narration with players wherever astatine the end, I consciousness precise adjacent to them and they astir apt consciousness precise adjacent to me.
“This is astir apt the lone reason. I inactive talk with galore of Leicester’s players due to the fact that we had a fantastic play past twelvemonth and I’m precise adjacent to immoderate of them.
“I’ve been successful shot for much than 30 years. You conflict to find radical so, so, truthful nice, that they attraction astir the family, astir the kids, astir everything. They are fantastic.
“But the astir important thing, fto maine say, is that we request our fans connected Sunday – 95 minutes, 100 minutes, we request to triumph the game. That is the astir important thing.
“At this moment, I’m focused connected us. Now I’m here, I’m conscionable reasoning astir us, however we tin amended and past it’s much for Ruud, for the sporting director, for the proprietor to find a solution.”
Leicester tin expect nary favours nor an casual attack with squad rotation.
Key midfielder Moises Caicedo is 1 booking distant from a two-game prohibition and Chelsea person arguably tougher matches looming against London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham.
But Maresca volition not see resting his pugnacious tackling £115million star.
He said: “At this infinitesimal for us, it’s astir winning games. We request to triumph games, truthful we cannot program connected giving Moi a remainder reasoning that helium tin play against Arsenal.
“We request to triumph against Leicester and past we request to absorption connected however we tin bushed Arsenal. It’s conscionable crippled by crippled and we request our champion players connected the pitch.
“The presumption of Moises, if you spot his background, past twelvemonth helium had 11-12 yellowish cards, the twelvemonth earlier the same, due to the fact that he’s a midfielder. You are successful the traffic. Sometimes you person to marque immoderate fouls. It’s normal.
“Hopefully, helium tin debar that until the end, knowing that astir apt it’s difficult, but the bully happening is that we besides person Romeo Lavia now, he’s started with america already.
“He tin beryllium back. We request to beryllium ready. Reece James tin beryllium a midfielder excessively truthful we’ll see.”
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