LEICESTER WOLVES
want to be watching England from the pub, I want to be at the next Euros and at the next World Cup.
“That’s my next target and to do that, I’ve got to keep working on my game here at Leicester and performing.”
Gray said Leicester’s players are alert to the problems their newly-promoted opponents could pose.
“Wolves are a very good team. They keep the ball very well,” he added.
Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo says Leicester’s title fairy tale in 2015-2016 is the inspiration for every Premier League wannabe.
Nuno takes his side to the King Power Stadium having toppled the Foxes in Europe.
He was manager at Porto when Claudio Ranieri’s title heroes came to town in the Champions League and crashed 5-0.
Nuno sees the Leicester story as a template for hopefuls gazing enviously at the top flight’s elite top six.
“What they achieved was amazing,” he said. “It says to me that success can come when you don’t expect it.”
The Wolves manager feels his young side let the occasion get to them as they kicked off their season with a 2-2 home draw against 10-man Everton, and he is eager they do not fall into the same trap today.
“Everybody here felt that we didn’t start that game well and I think we overdid a few things,” he said. MANAGER Slavisa Jokanovic has told his goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli “don’t be soft and fight for your place” after he was left out of Fulham’s Premier League opener against Crystal Palace. Bettinelli, left, started 26 of Fulham’s matches in last season’s promotion campaign but was not even on the bench for the 2-0 defeat by Palace, with