Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has revealed that he plans to relax during the global break by returning to Rome to spend time with his family.
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English Premier League leaders Leicester City took another big step towards the title with a 1-0 triumph over Crystal Palace.
When Crystal Palace and Leicester City met on the fourth match-day of the 2015-16 Premier League season, nobody could have predicted just where the Foxes would be now. The hosts now are not impressive, and the guests have recently played a very pragmatic. Now it’s up to the others to do something. “The Champions League is close”. Boosted by their FA Cup win over Chelsea I can see them picking up at least a point.
“I’m not dreaming [of the title], I make a comparison between the race for the title, and each match. It was a good match and until the end you don’t know what happens”. It bis a great honour to play for the national side.
“The goal was to save the team (from relegation to the Championship) and now everybody is speaking about us”.
Palace have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 10 league matches, conceding 23 goals. We have achieved the most important goal.
I am slightly baffled by the fact we do not have a win in this run of games.
Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal of the game after 34 minutes, finishing from Jamie Vardy’s low cross.
“We are very solid and compact”.
“They will be hard to catch and they would be worthy champions”. They showed in the first half why they’re top.
“They’re very strong and disciplined defensively”.
West Ham United’s charge into contention for Champions League qualification suffered a late setback at Chelsea where the Hammers were denied victory by Cesc Fabregas’s late penalty.
“We were a lot better in the second half but there is no disguising that we haven’t win for a long time now”.
Elsewhere; there were wins for Manchester United, Southampton, Arsenal, Stoke City, Norwich City and Swansea City over the weekend.
“But the bottom line is to get some points quickly because we need to improve”.
“We know that we are involved in that (relegation fight), but we have enough in that dressing room to not be involved in it”, said the Palace manager.
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In the second half of the season “Crystal Palace” is rarely indulges his fans.
