Should he score by the banks of the Tawe this weekend, Vardy will become the first player to score in 12 consecutive top-flight games since Jimmy Dunne for Sheffield United in 1932.
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“We take one point, it’s good for the table and Jamie breaks the record”.
City beat Southampton 3-1 at home to end a sobering week on a high, following losses to Liverpool in the Premier League and Juventus in the Champions League. Leicester continues to play magnificent and has solidified its position in the top four of the league.
“I could not play with them”. It’s the way I play and, if I have to play through it sometimes, that’s what I’ll do.
Asked about the buildup to the match he said: “If I’d let it get to me it would affect my performance so I have just been keeping my head down”. I’m delighted but the main thing was the performance. “I wrote “Great achievement, great record, 11 games in a row” and the date”.
“Our mentality was to try to win”.
Chris Smalling is enjoying his consistent run of games at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal and is thankful of his style of management which is helping him improve.
USA residents can watch the match highlights below, from NBC.
“It was good for us but maybe he was very, very angry”. Then we can not train.
“In the first-half, we didn’t dominate as much as we did in the second-half”.
“I am not happy with a point because we were the better team”, van Gaal said.
He said: “If you put two more players into Manchester United’s team, say a Gareth Bale or a Cristiano Ronaldo into that team, that team could win the league”. “We knew he [Vardy] was capable of making a goal like that, so it is a pity that we conceded that goal”.
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Schweinsteiger’s goal that leveled the match was certainly one of heroic feat, as he was being held and pulled by Shinji Okazaki the entire time the ball was in the air on the corner kick. Historically, you would like to see punch after punch, you would want to see bodies being thrown forward, but you might get caught on the counter attack and lose 2-1 that way. “We gave the goal away and other chances that they had we gave away also”.
