Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

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Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

Ricardo Pereira could return to the squad for this week’s trip to face Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, Ruud van Nistelrooy has revealed.

2025-03-31T11:50+01:00

by Sam Jones

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31 Mar, 2025

Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

Ricardo Pereira could return to the squad for this week’s trip to face Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, Ruud van Nistelrooy has revealed.

Sam Jones

2025-03-31T11:50+01:00

Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

Ricardo Pereira could return to the squad for this week’s trip to face Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, Ruud van Nistelrooy has revealed.

Sam Jones

2025-03-31T11:50+01:00

Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

Ricardo Pereira could return to the squad for this week’s trip to face Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, Ruud van Nistelrooy has revealed.

Sam Jones

2025-03-31T11:50+01:00

Ricardo Potentially In Contention For Man City, Says van Nistelrooy

Ricardo Pereira could return to the squad for this week’s trip to face Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, Ruud van Nistelrooy has revealed.

Sam Jones

2025-03-31T11:50+01:00

We head to Manchester City on Wednesday evening (7:45pm kick-off)
The Manager provided an update on his squad prior to the fixture
Ricardo Pereira could be back for the trip to Etihad Stadium, he revealed on Monday
It has been over two weeks since the Foxes last played in the Premier League

The defender came off the bench in the closing stages of our narrow defeat to Chelsea earlier this month, returning from a long-term hamstring injury, but suffered a setback which saw the Portuguese full-back miss the meeting with Manchester United on Filbert Way last time out.

Now, though, following the recent international break, the 31-year-old has every opportunity of playing a part this Wednesday, when the Foxes are back in action for the first time in over two weeks, tackling Pep Guardiola’s men on matchday 30 of the Premier League campaign.

A brief appearance at Stamford Bridge.

“We obviously had Ricardo Pereira out for the Man United game,” the Manager explained to the media on Monday morning. “But he’s doing really well. Hopefully we can get him on the training pitch today and tomorrow and see if he’s ready for Wednesday.”

Young talents from within the Under-21s, meanwhile, have been added to the First Team training group during the past couple of weeks, allowing van Nistelrooy to assess a greater number of different players who could potentially force their way into the squad for the final stretch of the run-in.

“We carried on training because we had 14 or 15 players and fewer players on international duty, so we had a big group,” the Dutchman commented. “We added the young players who are doing really well and Jeremy Monga and Jake Evans, among others, who had a good week with the First Team.

“Everybody had a good week and after that some time off and then picked up again last Thursday.”

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