Leicester go into 2016 second in the Barclays Premier League behind leaders Arsenal on goal difference after only beating the drop last season.
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The 64-year-old Ranieri has added just three players to Pearson’s squad in Gokhan Inler, N’Golo Kante and Yohan Benalouane.
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Ranieri said: “Of course I am disappointed but if I analyse all the match, they played well in the first half”.
“We need to win all our home games and be damn hard to beat in our away games and take victories and enjoy it with our fans, who were great again tonight”.
Manchester City, if you listen to their players, have never quite hit top gear and I heard Joe Hart saying after their midweek game with Leicester that they still had another gear to find.
A draw at -2.5 goals tempts as a 15/4 shot and 15 goal Jamie Vardy, 13 goal Riyad Mahrez and two goal Josh King offer value as anytime scorers at 20/21, 13/8 and 5/2. “We must be confident because we are Manchester United, we are one of the biggest teams in the world”.
Four minutes before half-time Vardy was presented with a glorious chance to score – an opportunity he has buried many times already this season.
“We are a solid team and we want to continue together with everybody”.
Their next challenge comes in the form of Bournemouth at King Power Stadium, and Ranieri is expecting a tougher test than against Manuel Pellegrini’s side.
Ranieri says now that Leicester are starting to build their team and confidence and wants to see his Foxes fight everybody, despite still being considered underdogs in the grand scheme of things.
Leicester had the first chance of the match when Mahrez impressively met Marc Albrighton’s deep cross and diverted an acrobatic effort just over, but it was the visitors who should have taken an early lead. They have had two attempts to surpass that without success so far, but they will enter Saturday’s match as heavy favourites, and only one more point is needed before Leicester’s target shifts.
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“In the second half of the season we will continue improving. We have played everyone now this season and we have showed we are more than capable of playing up there with the best of them”.
