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Arsene Wenger: Too much time on hands could be disadvantage for Leicester

Leicester have used a 4-4-2 formation to great effect this season but Warburton believes there are other reasons for their success.

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The top four all meet on Sunday, with leaders Leicester going to Arsenal and Manchester City meeting Spurs.

Ranieri hopes his players, who are in unfamiliar territory as they fight for the title, are able to cope with the pressure.

Wenger paid tribute to the East Midlands club but hinted pressure might begin to take its toll.

Arsenal have also been guilty of charging one of the highest ticket prices in the country, with their cheapest season ticket priced at £1,014 while their most expensive season ticket is priced at £2,013. “I know slowly, slowly somebody will want to put pressure on us”.

Manchester City was beaten last Saturday by Leicester City by a score of 3-1.

The Foxes visit fellow title challengers Arsenal on Sunday 14 February (11pm AEDT) in a match that is billed to have severe consequences in the title race.

In possibly the weirdest season ever in Premiership they have had so many opportunities to take over top of the table and win the title, but they managed to fail every single time.

World class But Vardy is confident Leicester, steeled by their recent triumphs at City and Tottenham, have learnt the lessons of their heaviest defeat of the season and will provide more obdurate opposition for Arsenal this time around.

Figures like those leave Ranieri confident all the pressure remains on the teams immediately behind his and trying to close the gap.

Melchiot: “He knows how to press opposition teams like no one else”.

“That is human. I think as well that it is good for football, and it goes against a little but the usual practice in our game, which is spend, buy big stars”. So I phoned Mitchell to tell him. Look how many journalist are here – why? “There’s no pressure, just enjoy!”

If Leicester do go onto win the league, surely the PFA player of the season will go to Vardy or Mahrez, however Mesut Ozil will be hoping to change that.

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January signing Daniel Amartey will not feature as he continues to gain fitness following his move from Copenhagen, while Jeff Schlupp (hamstring) and Matty James (knee) are out. If I have a full-back on either side who is very quick there is not so much damage done because he can be covered from the right and the left. Tottenham are probably playing better football at the moment but the home crowd might just boost Manchester City so I think that the points will be shared in this match.

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