Slot on Van Nistelrooy and his Leicester side visiting Anfield on boxing day

Slot on Van Nistelrooy and his Leicester side visiting Anfield on boxing day  Shot 22/12/2024   Tottenham Hotspur stadium, London, UK

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00:00But they're capable at their best, and at this time of year,

00:03quite often there are shock results, teams from the bottom meet teams from the top.

00:07What do you expect, and what do you think Ruud van Distelrooy has brought to the party?

00:14I think the positive is that teams that are positioned in the lower side of the league table

00:19mostly lose games, but since Ruud is there, they also won a few.

00:24So that shows you that he's done really well, especially when he came in.

00:27Now he had two tough results in a row.

00:31So, yeah, these teams, all of them, it's special for them to go to Anfield,

00:38and they know if they go to Anfield they have to be at their best,

00:41so they will never underestimate us.

00:43And hopefully, maybe that's the good thing about these 15 minutes we saw today,

00:47that we understand we cannot underestimate one minute in the Premier League,

00:52because then we're not as good as we might think we are if we are on top of our game.

00:59Jürgen, you came up against Ruud van Distelrooy in Holland

01:02when your final team beat his PSV team for the title.

01:06Can you tell us a bit more about that rivalry you had and also your relationship with him?

01:14I was expecting you to tell the people over here that I lost once and draw once,

01:18but you made it positive saying that we won the league title.

01:22Which was true, but Kody Kakko was in his team,

01:26so I'm happy that he's in my team now when we face Ruud,

01:29because I think in both games Kody scored.

01:32Ruud is a very nice person, first of all, I've met him once or twice,

01:40and I think he did really well when he was at PSV,

01:43because PSV for the last one and a half years have been on top of the league table.

01:48But if you look at the second half of Ruud's season,

01:52I think they didn't even lose any more at all.

01:55So it wasn't a surprise that after he left and they bought so many players,

01:59because PSV started buying a few more players than they did when he was working there,

02:03because when he was there Kody Kakko and Matu Weker were sold.

02:08But he still showed that he could compete for the title.

02:12Nice person, good manager, did well at United as well.

02:16But looking forward to seeing him, especially if we win.

02:20Jürgen, obviously it's a quick turnaround,

02:23but any chance of Nancy O'Brien leaving back for Leicester?

02:25No.

02:26And with Kye Zidane, can you explain the decision not to have him in the squad today?

02:30Sick, ill, yeah.

02:32Unfortunately for him, because he had some minutes against Southampton,

02:37but unfortunately he was sick in the last two days and today as well,

02:42so we couldn't bring him to the game.