But if a player comes to me and says, “Boss, I want to go there because it’s my ambition” I’ll say, “Go and enjoy and have good luck”. We wanted to restart after the Arsenal defeat, and three points are very important.
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The Manchester United fans who are gathered at the bar in The Transfer Tavern for tonight’s crucial Europa League match are discussing reports praising one of their centre backs.
Cameron Jerome had squandered the outstanding chance of the game for the Canaries just before halftime, glancing a header wide, but though they laboured unimaginatively through much of the second half, Leicester sent the King Power Stadium wild in the dying seconds. It is not important to play well or not – it is important to take the points.
Home goalkeeper Fraser Forster established a new Southampton top-flight record of 708 minutes without conceding a goal, but he was finally beaten in the 75th minute when he allowed Cesc Fabregas’s cross to go past him.
Vardy and Mahrez in particular have taken the Premier League by storm this season and will probably end up fighting it out between themselves for the PFA Player Of The Year trophy. We are now in the quarter-finals and we are the highest-ranked team left in the competition. “That is our mentality”.
The decision proved inspired as the Argentinian scored just his third goal of the season to give Leicester the win.
“Yes, I think we are at the turn, there is the last turn, then the run-in”, he said.
“I tried to make some changes to spread out their defensive line with (Jeff) Schlupp on the left and Riyad (Mahrez) on the right and after I also put on Ulloa because I needed another goalscorer in the box. It was a good choice”. If the other teams start to win, they can win all the matches.
Still, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the vast majority of this season, you’ll be well aware that the Foxes are firmly in the mix to lift the Premier League title at the season’s end.
For Norwich, the result leaves them dangling dangerously close to the drop, level on points with eighteenth-placed Newcastle United, who have a game in hand. I’m sure football purists would think to see a smaller team winning it could be refreshing. We’ll look at the game and know we should have got something better than what we did.
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The midfielder signed from Caen in August and has played in all 27 leagues games under Ranieri, his all-action style the epitome of Leicester’s approach that has brought so many plaudits.
