“Hopefully, we are not going to have to regret this goal at the end of the championship”, said Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud, who scored two of the team’s goals.
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Match-winner Huth says the squad are still struggling to comprehend their brilliant campaign, and paid tribute to Schmeichel’s performance in the Leicester goal.
Tottenham Hotspur dropped a heartbreaker at White Hart Lane against Leicester City on Wednesday, losing 1-0 in a match that was hugely important to both clubs’ aspirations for Champions League qualification.
The England worldwide broke a Premier League record by scoring in 10 consecutive games on the way to his tally of 15 league goals this season.
Fourth-place Tottenham had only lost two games – like Leicester – before their top-four faceoff at White Hart Lane.
Clearly they are doing something better than we are and if we want to improve we need to learn from them.
Bookmakers are braced to shell out millions if Leicester City win the Premier League title.
But he was recalled by Leicester manager Ranieri in one of nine changes to the team that had earned an FA Cup replay with a 2-2 draw at the same ground three days earlier.
The Foxes have had an outstanding season so far, and sit second in the table after accumulating 40 points from 20 matches, despite being one of the favourites to go down at the beginning of the season.
Ranieri, speaking ahead of his side’s trip across the Midlands to bottom of the table Aston Villa, said on Friday: “This is a young team and because last season was about fighting for survival they know the bitter taste of fighting at the bottom”. It won’t help me to sign them.
There was no goalmouth drama at the Etihad Stadium, although Manchester City’s efforts to reduce the gap at the top were hit when they were denied a late penalty for a foul on Raheem Sterling by John Stones. It’s important, it’ll [be] “yes or no” as to how I manage him.
“We can play really well and believe in your philosophy, and need to accept that another team can play in a different way”, he said. They have won most of their games like this and they play their game very well. That was fantastic because they wanted to win.
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“In the last month and a half, I have not seen Jamie at training because always there was a little problem. If we can add some player, we are open to it”.
