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It is undoubtedly one of the losing movements of the season. Sporting CP coach at the start of the season, Ruben Amorim had decided to leave the Portuguese club then in the lead and undefeated in the league to go to the Manchester United side. Current fifteenth of the Premier League and disputed, the 40 -year -old coach is as much in difficulty as the Red Devils. His Sporting CP club has also gone through a crisis and if he remains a leader of the Portuguese championship, Benfica returned to his heels. Finally, the temporary worker who has given way to Ruben Amorim, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, was pushed from the Mancunian club and that is not really good for him. Signing on the side of Leicester, he had to help the Foxes to maintain himself by taking over from Steve Cooper while the promoted pointed in 16th place. “We are pleased to confirm the appointment of Ruud Van Nistelrooy as a new manager of the first team of Leicester City. The Dutchman will take care of the team after the trip on Saturday to Brentford. Aged 48, joins us with great experience at the highest level, both as a player and as a coach, and signed a contract until June 2027 ”could we read at the end of November.
Disappointed with this end of adventure, he had expressed his feelings to BBC :: “As I took over the temporary position (Editor's note: after the departure of Erik Ten Hag), I said that I was here to help United and to stay, and I thought. So I was disappointed, really disappointed, and it hurts to have to leave. In the end, I understood because I also understand the new coach. I have been in football for a long time and I have managed. I understand.” Beginning with a victory against West Ham (3-1) and a draw against Brighton (2-2), Ruud Van Nistelrooy quickly showed promising things with his team. An ideal start while the Mission Maintain was going to be complicated. Nevertheless, the machine has since gripped since Leicester has played since 11 Premier League matches with 10 defeats for a small victory on January 26 against Tottenham. Currently nineteenth and five units from Wolverhampton The first relegation, the time is serious for the Batavian.
Leicester in great danger
18th best attack and 19th best defense of the Premier League, Leicester is finally in his place in the cart at the moment. The English club has bogged down over the past few weeks and has only 4 goals scored in its last 11 games for 29 conceded. Strong figures for the Ruud van Nistelrooy foxes which must compose it is true with an unclear context. Under a sanction from the Premier League for months for non-compliance with financial regulations, Leicester is under a deduction of points even if no sanction has been taken. However, this did not allow Leicester to strengthen properly this winter with the only arrival of Woyo Coulibaly from Parma against 3 million euros. And with a fairly limited workforce, the situation is complicated for the Dutchman who notably scrambled with Facundo Buonanotte one of the executives of the start of the season.
This Friday after the humiliation 4-0 against Brentford, he had a terrible but just observation: “We must accept that we are in a situation where every week we face a better team. We have to prepare a team so that it is the best possible. We cannot ask ourselves more. In the end, you have to try to play as much as possible. I can't ask players to do more than that. With the workforce we have, it is a huge mountain to climb to stay in this championship, a huge mountain. It is reality.Aware of the difficulties and limits of his group, he does not escape criticism. “We said at the time that it was a big bet for Ruud to go there in the situation in which they were. We heard the hoots, rightly so, at halftime. You know better that we are not a happy club. We really had the impression that it was a crucial weekend because West Ham and Wolves won and the last three conceded four goals. It feels like it's a weekend when everything is almost finished ”said Newcastle Alan Shearer's legend in the podcast Rest is football.
In an emergency, Leicester decided to cut heads and two of the assistants of Ruud Van Nistelrooy were dismissed. They are Ben Dawson and Danny Alcock. If he retains the confidence of the leaders for the moment, the 48 -year -old coach knows that he is expected at the turn. Faced with this West Ham this Thursday which is currently 16th but has 13 points ahead of Lecicester, the Foxes will then challenge Chelsea (March 9), Manchester United (March 16), Manchester City (April 2), Newcastle (April 5 ), Brighton (April 12) and Liverpool (April 19). A terrible program that could be fatal at the Eastern Midlands club but also in Ruud Van Nistelrooy. However, the latter is not worried as he explained at a press conference: “I know which contract I signed. It was not a five or six month contract. It was a contract, after that, for two additional seasons. I was aware when I arrived at the challenge and the difficulty it could represent. I was aware and I got involved in this future.To achieve this, he will have to get out of a very complicated situation.
