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A Christmas miracle: Claudio Ranieri still can’t believe Leicester top the table

A double for Riyad Mahrez from the penalty spot, ensuring that with the Algerian on 13 goals and Jamie Vardy on 15 Leicester now have the league’s two top marksmen, set up the latest win in a success story which is enchanting all neutrals.

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Ranieri’s side had been expected to fall away as the season progressed, but they underlined their tenacity and courage at Goodison Park by hanging on for all three points.

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However, Ranieri warned: “I am very, very honest”. If we stay there at the end of April, I will think about the title.

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Everton’s Leighton Baines controls the ball on Saturday against Leicester City in their Premier League contest.

The Foxes will sit top of the Premier League table on Christmas Day following an extraordinary first half of the campaign, which has seen the Foxes take 38 points from 17 matches. They said we hadn’t won here for maybe 30 years, so it’s very good for the club and the fans – I am very happy.

“I am very pleased”.

Shinji Okazaki added a third for the league leaders and, despite goals from Everton’s Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas, held on to secure the top spot over Christmas.

Yet the former Chelsea boss has produced a side with pace, panache and fearless confidence who may be beginning to truly believe now they have moved further ahead at the top. “To be fast, but calm”.

Everton boss Roberto Martinez was unhappy with how his side conceded three goals at home and was particularly frustrated with the award of the first penalty when Ramiro Funes Mori fouled Okazaki, with the Leicester forward appearing to offer little threat. Everton meanwhile are looking more like they will replicate their mid-table finish last season, and less like the team that qualified for the Europa League the year before. That is the difference between winning a game and not.

After two scruffy goals at West Ham and Newcastle this season, Okazaki’s third again came away from home but it found its way straight to the net this time, nicely dispatched beyond the diving Leighton Baines and keeper Tim Howard at pouring Goodison Park.

“I could instill the impression that I’m someone who can be counted on”, said Okazaki, who started his first game in three and played the full 90 minutes in nearly four months.

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“We need to be better”, he said. “It is not a time to blame the unfortunate action of the referee”.

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