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Leicester travel to Liverpool with the joint-best defensive record in the league and Caglar Soyuncu impressing at the back
Heard the one about the club who sold their most prized centre-back for £80m, did not buy a replacement and ended up with the best defence in the Premier League? Well, keep it to yourselves for a while because it is too early for punchlines and you do not want to advise Leicester to go laughing all the way to the bank just yet. But they are certainly entitled to smile as they prepare for Saturday’s trip to Liverpool, the only team in the league with a plausible claim to have a better back four than Brendan Rodgers’s side.
To say that Leicester have looked stronger since the departure of Harry Maguire is not to drop guano on the England defender, a deserved high-achiever. Rather it is to celebrate two positives: the impact made at Leicester by Maguire’s direct successor, Caglar Soyuncu; and the fact Soyuncu has stepped into a much more helpful environment than the one that Maguire is trying to make sense of at Old Trafford. Continue reading...