Ruud van Nistelrooy will keep faith in Leicester City’s new gameplan when his old club Manchester United visit the King Power Stadium this Sunday.
Van Nistelrooy switched to a back five for the 1-0 defeat to Chelsea and was pleased with the performance his side produced after just one week of training in the new shape.
Despite the loss, and despite failing to score for a fifth straight Premier League game, City boss van Nistelrooy is not going to abandon the plan yet.
He will stick with it this weekend when United come to town for what looks like being a decisive game.
Seventeenth-placed Wolves host bottom side Southampton on Saturday and will be favourites to stretch the gap to City to nine points.
If they do so, and then City fail to beat United, hope of survival may be all but evaporated.
“After a week of investing in the shape, on and off the ball, the way the performance was (against Chelsea), for me, I couldn’t have expected it to go so well,” van Nistelrooy said.
“We looked solid. Also, going forward we had more support around Jamie (Vardy). So it was a very positive development in that sense after only a week's work.
“So for me it’s something to take into next week and see how we can do better and show it in next week’s game.”
United have beaten City three times already this season, in the Premier League, Carabao Cup, and FA Cup, but all three of those matches were at Old Trafford.
While City are on a five-match losing streak, United have only won one of their last five Premier League matches and sit 14th in the table.
Before they travel to City on Sunday, they play the second leg of their Europa League last-16 tie against Real Sociedad and need a win having drawn the first leg 1-1.
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