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Premier League Preview and Prediction: Leicester vs West Ham

Vardy, Mahrez and N’Golo Kante are all on the list representing Leicester, while Dimitri Payet is there for West Ham.

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Claudio Ranieri the manager of Leicester City reacts as Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho looks on during the Barclays Premier League match between Leicester City and Chelsea at the King Power Stadium on December14, 2015 in Leicester, United Kingdom.

“Sadly, I didn’t get the 5,000 to 1 odds that other people had early in the season, but 7-1 is not so bad”, he said of a bet he laid when most people were still predicting the bubble would burst.

“In Turkey there is only one club for me and that’s Besiktas”.

The Foxes are seven points clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League and need just three wins from their last five games to claim the title.

There already exists a “Lineker Road” in the city, named after the former Leicester player Gary Lineker, a native of the city who also played for J-League’s Nagoya Grampus during his career.

Meanwhile, Leicester’s Danny Drinkwater has insisted there will be no change in the club’s approach as they eye a remarkable Premier League title success.

A 2-0 win at Sunderland on Sunday secured Leicester a top-four finish and, barring a permutation that includes Manchester City and Liverpool both winning European trophies, at least a place in the Champions League qualifying play-offs.

CLAUDIO RANIERI, Leicester manager, indicating his team are relaxed.

We have to fight with a smile as our job is done.

Alex Neil’s Canaries side now have a four-point gap over the Black Cats, having played a game more, and know victory could condemn their rivals to the Championship. “I watched him in France, in Nice”, the Croat is quoted as saying by The Daily Mail.

“It was a game that. how can I explain?” he said.

Furthermore, Slaven Bilic’s side are unbeaten in each of their last five away games in all competitions (D3-W2) and they have lost just two of their last 12 matches outside of the Boleyn Ground in all competitions: W3-D7. We have the quality up front to go and score.”The critical point of this team is that every player can execute what they are supposed to do”.

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The Foxes opened up a 10-point gap last week when they kept a fifth successive clean sheet to beat relegation-threatened Sunderland 2-0, while Spurs reduced the gap to seven points when they plundered three goals in six minutes to beat Manchester United 3-0 at White Hart Lane. “Again, Leicester play before [title rivals] Tottenham, so can open up a ten-point lead again if they win, which is what I think will happen”.

Getty Images       West Ham came close to signing Kante reveals Bilic