Marco Silva spells out difference between Ruud van Nistelrooy and Steve Cooper's Leicester City
Marco Silva is not attaching any significance to the fact Leicester City are on a six-game losing run in the Premier League – and backed their performance in the loss to Crystal Palace.
The Fulham coach takes his team to the King Power Stadium tomorrow (3pm), looking to inflict a seventh straight reverse on the embattled Foxes.
However, having watched Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men fail to capitalise on first half opportunities to lose 2-0 to Palace on Wednesday evening, the Portuguese is taking nothing for granted. Particularly with his own side losing to West Ham on Tuesday and without a win in their last three league matches.
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Silva was asked about City’s dire run. “I think we have had enough examples this season so far that doesn't count at all,” he told the Fulham website. “As I said about ourselves, we lost the last one and we move on, we analyse deeply with the players because we have to, certain things in the game like we do always when you win too – but we have to move on.
“And Leicester, of course, when you are losing games, the confidence is not the same. But we know that in some moments you are more angry and more brave even to go for the next one as well.
“Of course, on paper the confidence is not the same, but when the whistle comes and the game starts, it's going to be a football match that both teams want to win and for sure they are going to fight harder and harder to get the points they need.
“I think last night [the Palace game] is a good example, the way they fought so hard. They had some good moments to score and to start leading the result and probably the game is going to be in a completely different direction.
“On the paper, no one wins football games at this level you have to go on to prove your quality.
"Leicester were really dangerous, I think. They had created enough to be leading, Palace made it difficult for them being solid. Both teams have the chances and it is a good example about one team was more clinical than the other and won the game.”
As for the van Nistelrooy revolution, Silva believes the Dutchman is overseeing more of an evolution having beaten Steve Cooper’s team in August.
“It's different now but you can still see some similar things. Most of the players they keep – not changing, not a big transformation, the formation that they play, if I can say in this way because certain type of players, they have certain profile and they have been performing.
“Of course the stamp of Ruud is there and he's trying to implement his own ideas and of course he's going in the direction that he wanted the team to go, but you see some things there still, we have analysed, we did our job, we are going to be ready.”
