Pegged at 5,000 to 1 odds last summer, the Foxes need just three points in their final three games to claim their first Premier League title in the club’s 132-year history.
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The Tottenham side who took the field on Monday was much less experienced, with players like Dele Alli and Eric Dier in their first full season.
“We still need to believe”.
“They want to waste time, they want get into the referee, but that’s football”. We’ve got to learn how to cope with that. Be it the extra experience or a little rub of the green, Ranieri’s side are two points closer to crossing the line after Spurs slipped up.
“Everyone seems to be putting in 110 percent against us but that’s football. We feel we are”. Monday was just one of those games.
“We’ve had a few of these where we haven’t put teams to bed, it’s disappointing, we felt like we could have won the game if we’d come out [in the] second half like we did the first”.
This is how many experts predicted the title race would play out.
Spurs’ chance appears to be over this season after their surprise draw against the Baggies left Leicester just three points away from being crowned champions. “You know how they’re going to play but you can’t stop it”.
“A lot of people and a lot of neutrals want Leicester to go on and win it, for one reason or another”.
“Leicester are doing a pretty good job and deserve to win the title because they have been there since the beginning of the campaign”, Rondon added.
“I know they will be disappointed but they still have a chance, Leicester still have to get the points and Tottenham are capable of winning all three games”.
‘It’s not impossible but it looks unlikely the way the season has gone so far.
“To create chances and score, we didn’t kill the game and we can speak a lot about different things”.
“We can’t get too down about the West Brom result”. Off the pitch, Tottenham were in turmoil, and on it they looked well off the pace required to challenge for silverware, let alone qualify for the Champions League.
Preparing for this game meant the 20-year-old Alli missed Sunday’s Professional Footballers’ Association ceremony, where he was named young player of the year.
‘There’s nothing we can do about that.
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That’s the tally boasted by Everton in Roberto Martinez’s first season in charge, with Liverpool top with 80 points after a run of one defeat in 17 – the same run Leicester find themselves on now.
