However, Ranieri feels that while Leicester’s fellow contenders may talk his side up in public, privately they do not see them as a genuine threat.
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Leicester City won 1-0 at Tottenham Hotspur to rekindle their unlikely Premier League title challenge and draw level at the top with Arsenal who conceded a late goal to draw 3-3 at Liverpool on Wednesday.
Unfortunately that’s tailor made for Leicester who defend in depth, don’t bother much about possession stats and rely on pacy counter attacks to get their goals.
Although remaining unbeaten under Hiddink, Chelsea is 12 points behind fourth-place Tottenham.
“Leicester have done brilliantly proving everyone be they bookies, pundits and all the other so called experts completely wrong”, said Betfred boss Fred Done.
Ranieri has played down Leicester’s chances of the title in the past but said his squad are starting to believe they can stun the league.
They now sit equal with Arsenal on 43 points. I want to show our character and strength. Leicester is a team that shook the world this season, as noone could predict that a team that was at 14th place last season would be standing at the top of the league.
Vardy, who missed Sunday’s match because of a minor groin operation, had few chances against Spurs and extends his run without a goal to five matches. The match is like a training session for him.
“But we want to have them all saying, “Yes, now, Leicester are fighting for the top four”.
But this season has proved to be a amusing season in the Premier League. Both sides looked to accept a goalless draw until an unmarked Huth gave his side the three points following Christian Fuchs’ corner.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side are short odds favourites to bounce back from their defeat to surprise package Leicester City on Wednesday but new Paddy Power customers can take a huge 4/1 (5.0) on the home side in Saturday’s early kick off.
In his post match comments after the league game against Leicester, Pochettino was starting to sound uncomfortably like Arsene Wenger, explaining how unlucky we were and how we deserved something from the match.
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“Micah is fully fit, if really needed he could have played on Tuesday but sometimes when we have two or three games in a row it could be not the best to play him”. “We need to take the positives and prepare for Saturday”.
