Ranieri was delighted with his side, who continued to dominate the Premier League even without top scorer Vardy.
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Jamie Vardy will miss Leicester’s potentially title-winning clash with Manchester United on Sunday after being handed extra one-game ban.
“We still have to face Leicester, Liverpool, Swansea manager Francesco Guidolin said ahead of the match”.
Leicester’s Marc Albrighton celebrates scoring his side’s fourth goal.
Leonardo Ulloa proved an able deputy for Jamie Vardy as Leicester City took a huge step towards the Premier League title with a nerveless 4-0 win over Swansea City.
“Whenever we are going to Old Trafford for us it is a big game”.
However, Tottenham Hotspur can trim Leicester’s lead back to five points by beating West Bromwich Albion on Monday and with United buoyant after their FA Cup semifinals victory over Everton, Ranieri warned that the race was still far from run. We knew we had some difficulties but with the fight of everybody we had a good match.
“It was brilliant for Leo to come in and not only play well but score two goals as well”, King said. While Leicester has been reaping the rewards of smart spending and having gambles on unknown players pay off, Chelsea’s season has been much the opposite.
Ulloa, who converted an injury-time penalty against West Ham to claim a vital point, said: ‘I am always ready to play when I can help the team and I always work for this.
“It’s important to try to win every, every match”, the manager said.
On Sunday’s showing, Leicester isn’t so reliant on Vardy – an encouraging sign as it looks forward to a season of Champions League football when squad rotation will be a necessity.
Swansea have little to play for and have sealed survival but, apart from the first 10 minutes before Mahrez struck, they offered little resistance. But that palpable tension soon turned to unbridled joy as Swansea captain Ashley Williams’ attempt at a first-time pass hit Mahrez.
Ulloa made it 2-0 on the half-hour by heading in Danny Drinkwater’s free-kick and killed the game off in the 61st minute when he toed in a cross from Jeff Schlupp, who had sprinted into the box from halfway.
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From Andy King’s back-post header, Gray saw a close-range volley parried by Fabianski, but Albrighton followed in to lift the rebound into the roof of the net.
