We hope for Leicester because they deserve to be champions, but we will see. It is fantastic. Terrific. ‘Well done to everybody. “Well done to everybody, the owners, the fans, the players, the staff, everybody involved in it. It’s a great achievement”.
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He said: “Now we go straight away to try to win the title”. Mauricio (Pochettino), keep calm! “Now is the right moment to push with everything so that there are no regrets if Tottenham are better than us”.
“I’m optimistic, I’m positive”. It is hard but we have everything in our hands. We don’t have to win all of ours. Now is the last part of the race and the final is there.
“We play with our hearts and it’s hard to beat those who play with the heart and soul”.
“Leicester go into battle without Vardy – it’s like Richard III fighting at the nearby Battle of Bosworth Field without ‘a horse…a horse…a kingdom for his horse!’ We know what happened there”. But I prefer to be five points ahead.
“Now there are only three matches, we know they are very important for our history but for this reason we give everything”.
Ranieri will be without Jamie Vardy for that game, following the striker’s controversial dismissal against West Ham United last Sunday, but the Leicester manager was reluctant to wade into the English Football Association’s decision to charge the striker with improper conduct.
“I talk to my players”. I think I have 24 stars, I have 24 Cesars. Harry Kane is up for PFA Player of the Year, while Dele Alli is up for Young Player of the Year.
Leicester City have made a league-low 25 changes to their starting XI this season in the Premier League.
Pochettino, whose Tottenham side are nearly at full strength, ramped up the pressure on the leaders with his praise for Vardy.
“I am very, very pleased with Leonardo, he scored twice, I am very pleased with (Jeff) Schlupp and all of my players”.
The Foxes are now five points clear of Tottenham Hotspur at the top with four games to play, but they’ll need to work hard to have any chance of extending that gap. That is followed a week later by a clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
“Leicester deserved to win”, he said. I chose to play with Gylfi (Sigurdsson) as false nine. Tottenham is eight points behind Leicester heading into Monday’s game against West Bromwich Albion. “Well done. He was Leicester’s top scorer last season and he didn’t lose his quality”.
“He showed fantastic skill and that he’s one of the best in the world”.
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‘We never had any doubts about him. “It’s a fantastic situation and I am happy for him”.
