Leicester City boss, Brendan Rodgers has issued a warning to Arsenal over the Premier League title race after he came painfully close with Liverpool in the 2013-2014 season.
Leicester host Arsenal on Saturday evening, with Mikel Arteta’s side attempting to lift their first Premier League title since 2004.
Arsenal are currently two points ahead of second position Manchester City at the top of the table with a game in hand.
But Rodgers knows all too well that it could quickly unravel for the Gunners after Pep Guardiola’s side pipped his Liverpool team to the title back in 2014 by two points.
“There’s definitely a change in emotion, that is for sure,” Rodgers said on Friday at his pre-match press conference.
“That is the key aspect of it and we are not really even at that stage yet.
“You see the excitement there with how Arsenal are playing and you sense the supporters feel they’ve an opportunity – which they do have.
“But it is really not until you get to 10 games to go and then five games to go. If they are still up there, which I believe they’ll be, then the expectation on everything and the emotion grows even more.
“If I look back on that, it is really about trying to manage those aspects.
“Because when you have not won the league for so long, then of course, the closer it gets and the closer you’re to it, naturally the supporters dream. So the expectation starts to grow even more.”
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