However, nearly every bit of praise waged at Leicester this season has been hedged because of the perception that, no matter how many matches it wins, a club like Leicester just in’t supposed to be successful in the Premier League.
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“He saw the ‘keeper out of the goal, unbelievable, amazing, fantastic, fantastic”, said Claudio Ranieri, Leicester City manager.
Leicester stared quickly and on eight minutes, Vardy chipped the ball into the area for Shinji Okazaki whose header was well saved by Simon Mignolet, who palmed the effort over the bar.
Jamie Vardy handed Leicester a double boost on Tuesday night, insisting he’d “like to be here for a long time” after his double sank Liverpool at the King Power Stadium.
“Things like this happen when you are in such a good moment like Jamie Vardy and Leicester are”, Klopp said.
“At the end, the game is decided by a world-class goal from Jamie Vardy”, Klopp added.
He suggested that “maybe the reason” is that Liverpool had “six games more in January” but insisted with the “intensity we played with” that they “had a lot of good situations”.
With the first of three tricky fixtures successfully negotiated, Leicester now travel to Manchester City on Saturday to face their nearest rivals before taking on Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday week. “I was looking all game and he [Mignolet] was quite far off his line”.
“If you can win a game, you should do it. We didn’t”.
Vardy enjoyed title success with non-league outfit Fleetwood in 2011/12 before joining Leicester for £1m in that summer where he helped clinch the Championship title in 2014. (Picture: Reuters)The wonder-strike was Vardy’s 17th goal of the season.
“They [the big games] do keep coming”, Vardy said.
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Man City were under the cosh for long periods at Sunderland but hung on for Pellegrini’s 65th win in 100 Premier League matches in charge – a record bettered only by former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho (73). Today would have been a good day to show we are ready for this. “Even when they pressed in the first half we played and then they had to run”, the German tactician regretted.
