Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has claimed that his side’s upcoming match against Bournemouth will be the most hard of their festive fixtures. Join The Roar for live scores from the game starting at 6:45am AEDT.
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Claudio Ranieri’s side host Bournemouth on 2 January as the East Midlands club pursue the most surprising title challenge in a generation.
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Leicester City, coming off only their second loss of the season, a 0-1 away defeat to Liverpool on Boxing Day, looked impressive, containing the offensive firepower of Manchester City, who now sit in third place with 36 points.
Manchester City on the other hand aren’t that far off the top of the table themselves, now sitting in fourth with a game in hand on most of the competition.
Defeats against Bournemouth, Norwich, Stoke and Wolfsburg followed – as well as another goalless draw against Chelsea – and all of a sudden United were nine points behind leaders Arsenal in sixth position.
In contrast to their opponents, Manchester City must feel a tiny bit of disappointment as 2015 concludes.
Kompany has missed more than half of City’s league games this season, playing in nine out of the 19, and hobbled off within 10 minutes of appearing as a second half substitute against Sunderland.
Pellegrini says that he was satisfied with the performance against a side that who had scored in each of their last 14 games at home.
The Italian said: “What we are doing is unbelievable”.
“We will fight, right until the end and we want to win”.
The year has seen City pull off the greatest of Premier League great escapes and then surge to the top of the table by Christmas.
“I’m happy because we came here to try and win the game and we went for the three points”, he said in his post-match news conference.
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“This league is very insane. nobody wants to win the league”. We played calm, fast and pressed high when it was possible.
