It has been nothing short of a fairytale for Leicester City as far as this year’s Premier League is concerned.
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However, the team is dominated by Manchester City and West Ham players with each club having three stars named in the side after impressive victories this past weekend.
With Leicester City edging ever closer to Premier League immortality, you might have thought that they’d be watching their title rivals’ games at every possible occasion. If Leicester do go on to win the title the bet would have been worth £250,000 (NZ$526,000). “It’s insane numbers, a insane league and anything could happen”.
Manchester City’s 4-0 win at home to Aston Villa has kept them fourth, ten points behind Leicester with a game in hand.
With their recent poor form, everybody expected Arsenal to fall to Tottenham and even after the second half sending off of Coquelin, nobody expected gave the Gunners any chance in the game.
The two points Leicester City dropped at home to West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday must have felt a bit like a defeat in the home side’s dressing room. This makes Arsenal, then, Marco Rubio – now third place, missing out on wins at a key, narrative-turning point in the season, and clinging on to a hope that is running headlong against numbers.
Said Grayson: “I had more than five years at Leicester and they were happy times, there was a great spirit in the squad”. That is my point, City need to keep plugging away so when Leicester slip up, and we have to believe they will, we will be able to take advantage. But the blow they have suffered especially in the last three matches is something that might have already cost them the league.
While not to write off the Lilywhites it would take quite an effort for them to peg back the gap for any team, let alone a team which has never tasted Premier League glory. Given the double windfall of Champions League and increased Premier League money, plus the attraction of playing in the continent’s top club competition, they should be fairly well-equipped to keep the sharks at bay.
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All had appeared relatively serene when the Foxes were held to a 2-2 draw at the King Power Stadium, but little would we know about the drama that would unfold just 24 hours later.
