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Barnes Braced For Liverpool Battle

The squad are aware of what is required to haul themselves out of the current situation, according to Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes.

2023-05-14T07:08:12.910Z

by Sam Jones

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14 May, 2023

Barnes Braced For Liverpool Battle

The squad are aware of what is required to haul themselves out of the current situation, according to Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes.

Sam Jones

2023-05-14T07:08:12.910Z

Barnes Braced For Liverpool Battle

The squad are aware of what is required to haul themselves out of the current situation, according to Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes.

Sam Jones

2023-05-14T07:08:12.910Z

Barnes Braced For Liverpool Battle

The squad are aware of what is required to haul themselves out of the current situation, according to Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes.

Sam Jones

2023-05-14T07:08:12.910Z

Barnes Braced For Liverpool Battle

The squad are aware of what is required to haul themselves out of the current situation, according to Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes.

Sam Jones

2023-05-14T07:08:12.910Z

- Leicester City take on Liverpool in the Premier League on Monday (8pm kick-off)- The Foxes are desperately in need of points to move out of the relegation zone- City were beaten by Fulham last time out, the second loss of Dean Smith’s tenure- Harvey Barnes scored twice at Craven Cottage and previewed this game with LCFC TV

Following a 5-3 reverse at Fulham, Leicester will enter Monday’s home clash with Liverpool inside the Premier League’s bottom three. Alongside results elsewhere in the division, it proved to be a damaging defeat for the Foxes.

With time running out to secure top-flight status for next season, the winger, who scored two of City’s goals at Craven Cottage, knows that the performance against the Reds must be better to have any chance of taking a positive result.

“It was tough,” he admitted in his pre-match interview with LCFC TV. “Going into that game, there was a lot of confidence on the back of a few good performances where, as a team, there were a lot of positives to take from those games.

“Not just the result, but the performance was the main thing (against Fulham). We really let ourselves down as a team and went against a lot of what we’ve being doing well in games. We were very easy to play against and the goals we conceded were poor.

“This week has been about going through that, seeing what went wrong the most and making sure those things don’t happen now for the last few games. Sometimes, as a player when you’re out there, you almost can’t see what is not quite right or what is going wrong.

“And then when you look through it after on the video, you see the little things that were letting us down. There wasn’t one big major problem that was easy to fix. It was just a lot of little one per cents which weren’t there.

“In this league, if you do that and you’re not quite at it, you’ll get punished and we did.”

After Jürgen Klopp’s side visit King Power Stadium for Monday’s 8pm kick-off, Newcastle United host the Foxes seven days later. The season finishes at home to West Ham United and, with nine points still to play for, there is plenty of fight and desire within the squad.

City’s No.7 continued: “It’s three games to just go and give it our all. We know if we turn up as a team and we put in performances that we know we’re capable of, there’s no reason why we can’t get those results to keep us in the league.

“As players, they are games that we’re looking at and knowing that if we perform better than the other team, then we have every chance of winning. You look around the changing room and the quality that we’ve got, it’s there to see.

“It’s just about the lads giving 100 per cent in those final three games and making sure we give ourselves the best chance. We’ve had great results against the bigger teams in this league over the last few years and even this season.

“It’s something that we’ve been good at - I don’t know what it is, but we’ve had some really good nights against the big teams. As a club, we’ve just found the way against the bigger teams to get those results. We had a great result against Spurs earlier this year.”

There’s no easy formula to turn results around but a long-overdue clean sheet would go a long way to helping their cause. Leicester haven’t shut out league opposition since doing so at West Ham in November 2022.

The England midfielder added: “Of course, it can’t turn out like it did the other day where we concede five goals – it’s not realistic to get results like that. A clean sheet is something that we’re looking at.

“We’ve struggling with that this year, but if we go and get a couple of clean sheets in the next couple of games we give ourselves every chance.

“Especially in the last few games, the goals have been there and throughout the season we’ve been scoring. But of course, those goals need to mean something in terms of results. Every time you score, you want to celebrate at the end of the game.

“There’s nothing worse than scoring a goal but knowing it means nothing, like the other day. You’d swap them any day for three points. It’s about sticking together as a team and making sure it's as hard as it can be for the opposition to score against us.

“That is the basics of it now and then hopefully, if we do that, we’ve got the quality within the team to go and get ourselves a goal. That’s going to be our best way of winning games.”

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