Vardy is in talks to extend his Leicester deal until 2019 and after last night’s win reiterated his desire to stay: “It’s nothing people don’t know”.
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“I don’t (think I’ve scored better)”. “I’d been looking all game and he (Mignolet) was quite far off his line and so as soon as Riyad (Mahrez) played the ball through and it’s bounced quite high and I’ve got no support, I thought I’d take my chance”. But a goal is a goal and more importantly it’s a win for the club.
“No Vardy, no [Riyad] Mahrez, none of those type of players to add the finishing touch”.
Jamie Vardy insists he is injury-free and ready to keep Leicester’s title charge on track.
The commentator, getting progressively louder and louder, also called the goal “outrageous” and “a goal you would expect a team who are going to win the league to score”.
No one’s sleeping on Leicester City anymore, and if they are it’s because we’re all involved in a dream. “He watched the ball arrive, watched the opponent and watched the goalkeeper”.
There were smiles all over Hodgson’s face when the cameras inside the ground panned to him, but they were about to get even bigger as Vardy latched onto Okazaki’s deflected shot to steer the ball past Mignolet to double his side’s advantage.
His first was straight out of the top drawer, volleying home from 30 yards past the despairing dive of Simon Mignolet in the Reds’ goal.
Leicester held on to beat Liverpool 2-0 and retain its three-point lead in the standings.
After narrowly avoiding relegation last season, the Foxes have been sensational this campaign, thanks in large part to striker Jamie Vardy, who once again shone in front of his home fans, scoring one of the best goals of the season.
“The good thing with a clear plan is you know about it, so they won’t change a lot – but all the other teams knew about it too and they couldn’t avoid their strengths for 95 minutes”.
Asked if he was pleased to see his team work hard, he replied to BBC Sport: “It is rare a journalist says something more positive than the manager”.
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“I think we didn’t start the game well – we let Leicester come into the game and didn’t defend aggressively enough”, he said.
