Robert Huth scored twice as Leicester sensationally thrashed title favourites Manchester City 3-1 to continue their remarkable challenge for the Barclays Premier League crown. My mind goes over seven days and the next game against Arsenal, a tough match with fantastic players.
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“I am sorry because we know it’s a insane league and we have to try in this insane league and there are some big teams who have to win”, Ranieri said.
Here’s what we learned from a potentially seismic afternoon at the Etihad.
Leicester’s German defender Robert Huth wheeling away after scoring his second goal of the game and his side’s third goal. As for Manchester City, poor defending was largely to blame for their 1-3 home loss.
On this evidence, Toure is out of City this summer.
Furthermore, the four-goal swing in goal difference meant that as well as a six-point lead over City, Leicester’s goal difference of +20 is now just one goal worse than their chief rivals’.
Leicester City boosted their title chances by beating Manchester City on Saturday, and Darius Vassell says the Foxes are now in control.
“It is insane. It is a insane Premier League”, Ranieri told BT Sport. Sergio Aguero claimed a late consolation.
Suddenly, with the assured excellence of Leicester’s victory over a Manchester City side that cost more than 200 million pounds ($290 million) more to assemble than Ranieri’s, a team with the best home record in England, it dawned once and for all that this wonderful story was no fluke.
Replays suggested that the corner for Leicester’s third goal might have been awarded as a goal-kick, while Huth appeared to foul Martin Demichelis as he converted.
He helped Leicester securing promotion in the Premier League in his second season at the club, and played a major role for the Foxes last season, as the club narrowly escaped from relegation. We played first against a very good team. “There are 39 points to play for, nothing is finished”.
While some still believe Leicester City lacks the experience to maintain their current form to the final match of the season and thereby lift the Premier League title, almost everyone is convinced that the team will be in the UEFA Champions League next season.
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Elsewhere, Adam Johnson and Jermain Defoe scored as second-bottom Sunderland came from 2-0 down to snatch a 2-2 draw at Liverpool, whose manager Jurgen Klopp was absent due to appendicitis. They got the goals at the right times and they looked solid.
