“They will look at us and take heart from what we did and I am sure it will be mentioned around Bodymoor Heath training ground, that we were able to turn around our season so why can’t they?”
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It was a second unsuccessful penalty in three league games for Mahrez, who was denied by Artur Boruc in the recent 0-0 draw with Bournemouth.
Leicester City went back to the top of Premier League on Saturday with a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa but there was the unmistakable sense of an opportunity blown after Riyad Mahrez had missed a potential game-winning penalty for the Foxes.
Villa began to grow into the game and secure more possession around the Leicester area which led to a chance for Leandro Bacuna, but his shot was straight at Kasper Schmeichel.
Ranieri held talks with Mahrez on Monday and informed the Leicester City winger he would be taking him out of the firing line after two successive misses from the spot.
Claudio Ranieri’s side will remain top should Arsenal fail to beat Stoke City on Sunday [17 January].
He said: “This is a young team and because last season was about fighting for survival they know the bitter taste of fighting at the bottom”.
And Ranieri says he will have a chat with Mahrez over who takes the club’s spot-kicks from now on.
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After the victory against Crystal Palace on Tuesday, this result offered Villa supporters another sliver of hope in the club’s mission to avoid relegation.
“It was a good all-round performance and thankfully we picked ourselves up after the defeat against Leicester”, he told Tottenham’s official website.
There have been few positives for Aston Villa in this dire season, but the second half of this match might just have been one. I thought it was very entertaining.
Southampton confirmed the signing of Charlie Austin from Queens Park Rangers before kick-off against West Bromwich Albion but they were far from goal-shy as they swept aside Tony Pulis’ team. “But I do want good players and Amartey is one of those”, he said. And although his sweeper-keeper mentality earned him a yellow card and (arguably) cost Villa a goal in this match, it’s still hard not to agree with manager Remi Garde’s post-match assessment that Bunn gives the Villa team more confidence right now than Brad Guzan.
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Aguero scored in the 41st minute, after Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey failed to prevent Fabian Delph’s long-range shot squirming under him in the 22nd, doubled his tally in the 68th and then set up David Silva for a late fourth.
