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Match Preview for Manchester Metropolis v Leicester Metropolis
Manchester Metropolis will look to construct on Sunday’s spectacular FA Cup win at Bournemouth once they host struggling Leicester Metropolis tomorrow night time.
Pep Guardiola’s facet have been trailing on the break however second-half targets from Erling Haaland, who had earlier seen a penalty saved, and Omar Marmoush turned the tie round and despatched Metropolis into the semi-finals for the seventh successive yr.
It was the form of efficiency Metropolis have produced hardly ever this season with their hopes of a fifth Premier League crown in a row dashed by a poor run of kind round Christmas.
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They’ve realigned their targets with Champions League qualification now the said intention over the remaining weeks.
They begin this match spherical in fifth place, a degree adrift of Chelsea, however will certainly be assured of claiming three factors towards a Leicester facet who’re heading again to the Championship.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s facet have misplaced their final six league video games with out scoring.
They’re 9 factors from security and the state of affairs is trying bleak for the Foxes.
Van Nistelrooy mentioned: “Our focus is on doing the very best we are able to and that offers us the very best probability to choose up factors. It’s powerful.
“Ipswich and Southampton are in the same state of affairs. It’s necessary to stick with the method and keep motivated, and with that I can not ask any extra.”
Regardless of their woeful file, Guardiola gained’t be taking Leicester flippantly.
“I understand how powerful Leicester are,” he mentioned. “I’ve been impressed by the way in which they’ve performed the final two video games. They performed very well towards Chelsea and towards Aston Villa they performed actually good, in several methods.
“They did very well. So we’d like them [the fans] desperately to attain our success and to be within the Champions League once more.”
