Leicester City goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer has said on Sky Sports News, broadcast on March 21 at 10.15am, that the club’s supporters are keeping a sense of realism about the Foxes’ campaign this season. We couldn’t create anything and they deserved the lead at half-time. “When we’re very concentrated, want to catch the ball and press the opponent, I’m very calm”. Now it’s up to the others to do something.
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“I think now we are close to securing Champions League football, that is a great achievement”, he told Sky Sports. Maybe in the next two matches I can say something more. I make a comparison between the race for the title, and each match.
With their rivals desperate for a favour from out-of-form Palace, Leicester ground out a 13th victory by a single goal this season to pile the pressure on their challengers.
Dann, who has been one of Palace’s stand-out performers this season, said: “It’s disappointing for us, we were confident going into the game and we were unfortunate not to score at the end”.
Norwich could yet be overtaken by Sunderland, which plays Newcastle on Sunday, but the Canaries were also celebrating their first away clean sheet of the season.
The Eagles pressed the Foxes’ defence but were unable to find the net with Riyad Mahrez’s first-half goal enough to seal the points. “The seven matches are open matches”, he added.
“Then they showed a little map and pointed it out saying, ‘Here it is'”. “And now you’re going to believe us”.
Leicester’s next outing is at home to Southampton on April 3, while Tottenham – who are second – have a trip to Liverpool a day earlier.
Leicester – bottom of the table and battling to avoid relegation 12 months ago – tightened their grip on the summit with a 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace yesterday.
“We knew [facing Leicester] would be hard”.
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Palace, owing to the influence of Wilfried Zaha, Yohan Cabaye and Yannick Bolasie, are often among the division’s more creative teams but while they improved in the second half, Leicester largely restricted them to longer-range, ambitious efforts and aimless crosses. That is what will get us out of it (trouble), our (attacking) DNA.
