Slaven Bilic gave his pre match press conference in advance of our away game against Premier League leaders Leicester City.
Bilic said : “It looks like Reidy should be ok. He had tight muscles but was not injured. Nothing major happened on Wednesday. Burns is available. It was a huge disappointment because we wanted to go to Wembley and then go on and win the Cup. But we want to finish high and we are motivated to do that in our final six games, starting at Leicester on Sunday. We need points to finish high in the table. Do we need to win on Sunday? Well we know we need points if we are to finish high.It’s a great thing for Dimitri Payet being nominated for the PFA award. It’s a great thing for the Club as it shows we’re going well. Hopefully he’s going to win it but if not him, then it should be connected with something your club has achieved.”
“If Leicester win the league then Vardy is my choice. If they don’t and Spurs do, it has to be Harry Kane.I wouldn’t have said in August when they beat us that they’d be in this position but then nobody would have said that after their first two games I said to my staff and Claudio Ranieri that they had a team that was going to be very hard to beat. [On Fenerbahce] I have many friends in Turkey but I am happy here. In Turkey there is only one club for me and that’s Besiktas.”
“We have to bounce back and we’re playing away to a team that’s firm favourites to win the league. It’s a big test They play very simple football but it’s very effective. It’s hard to create clear-cut chances against them. They protect their box really well and have a great goalkeeper but we’re capable of creating chances and do in every game we play. We drew too many matches on one hand, but on the other hand we lost very few matches – only six. Of course it would be better if we had won more but overall we are doing really good and sitting high in the table. So far we’re having a really good season but we’ve got six games left and we want to finish it well and as high as we can. Every manager says we have to stop Leicester counter attacking and Vardy running into spaces, but they’re still doing it every week. We cannot afford to lose the ball and them to break on us.”