Hello and welcome to coverage from the Premier League as Leicester City take on Nottingham Forest.
Six places in the table and four points separate the two teams and both come into tonight’s match on the back of victories.
Leicester fought back from 2-0 down against Southampton to beat them 3-2 last Saturday and on Monday, Forest defeated Crystal Palace 1-0 to move themselves into the top half.
Steve Cooper is set for an emotional evening as he comes up against Forest, who he led to promotion and survival in the top flight before being sacked last season. But he refused to talk about his time at the City Ground ahead of the match and also did not say whether he would acknowledge the Forest fans.
“I’ll be focusing on the job in hand,” he said. “My mindset is that these jobs are so consuming that you don’t have any time to think about anything else. You haven’t got time for your mind to wander. If it does, then you get your comeuppance, I’ve learnt that – even before I managed at Swansea City. That’s where my mindset is. And that’s all I’m going to talk about.
“I’ve always respected jobs where I’ve been and had. I live in the moment, try to show respect and humility and hopefully that will serve me OK and I’ll be able to sleep at night. You won’t get any disrespect from me.”
Meanwhile, Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo wants his side to “ignore the compliments” surrounding their good start to the season. He said: “All of us need to keep improving and getting the best out of each one of us – especially after two tough years that we had.
“After a good start, we need to stick with that and don’t get distracted, ignore the compliments, so many can relax you, it’s my job not to do that. We don’t look at the table, this is not the moment to do so. We have lots of issues to take care of, players out, problems inside of the team.
“For example with Matz (Sels), thank you to him, but something is going on. Previous games we didn’t allow too many chances so it’s finding the balance in the competition, this is how we work and improving details.”
Full team news to come…
Source: telegraph.co.uk