Manchester City vs Leeds United press conference highlights: Sam Allardyce provides squad injury update

We hope we can find a space or two to cause them some problems and if we get a chance to score I don't think we could afford to miss any chances or opportunities. We might get in City’s box, we'd have to be ruthless, clinical, and defensively, the team will have to be the best it's been this season, which obviously has been a bit frail, but we're going to try and put that right obviously.

I think he's brilliant. He's doing a huge amount for the Premier League since he's been here. and I think that when you when you see what he's achieved, and I know we can talk about their backing, which is every successful football club it's not you know, just the coach or the players, it's the backing behind that, the recruitment behind that, and the recruitment has been spot on and his management style over the years has been fabulous. The sad thing is for us they’re in the best form of the season because they've won nine on the trot.

In terms of response I couldn’t be more pleased that the players have aired their views. Very important for me to go forward. We’ve put a plan together, to only talk about Man City and the big task we have in front of us. Then we’ve gone onto the training ground and into this room to analyse the best way to play this Saturday.