It’s a chance for Liverpool to win some games: Benteke

“But in my career what was important was just four matches – what I did before those four matches with Greece was nothing?”

Mamadou Sakho: The Liverpool defender, who returned to action last week against Watford after a six week layoff, has been criticized for his performance last week, as he appeared rusty after his injury.

Ranieri will face Klopp on Boxing Day less than 12 months after flying out to meet the German on a mid-season training camp when the Liverpool manager was in charge at Borussia Dortmund. “We need to be concentrated from the first second”. “We are not planning only to get more players and more players and more players”.

He has led Leicester to the Premier League summit with just one defeat from 17 games. You have to use the information we got from it and ignore the rest.

It’s a big game for… We’ve had luck in a few of the games but not all of them, the luck allowed us to show we started in a good way.

Victory over Liverpool, who Ranieri insists will be “angry” after their surprise defeat to Watford, will only fuel belief that Leicester can last the distance in the title race.

Martin Skrtel will miss the next six weeks, but Dejan Lovren is fit to return and should play alongside Mamadou Sakho at the back.

And while many others think it’s a matter of time before Leicester falls away, Ranieri isn’t excluding anything.

In recent days, though, the Italian’s tone has changed as his team close in on their initial target of 40 points, the watermark tally traditionally required to avoid relegation. Claudio Ranieri took over a team that were favourites for the drop instead they are top of the table and challenging for the title.

With his effervescent team sitting pretty top of the Premier League table against all the odds, it’s not entirely surprising that Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri is in a bouyant mood at the moment.

“Maybe the people say: “If my team don’t win, I’m very happy if Leicester win” and this is a good thing”.

The win sees Arsene Wenger’s side move to within two points of leaders Leicester and four clear of City, and Campbell is hoping their good run continues. “It is fantastic but we have to work some more”, Ranieri said.

The team registered four straight wins prior to their early December loss to Newcastle United. “We have to try to put that quality together”.

“Every ball for us is the last ball”. It doesn’t mean they will come or that I have already called them. “In the last 30 minutes Inter Milan scored a goal and won the scudetto [title]”, he remembered.