Black Stars winger Andre Ayew will come face to face with his worldwide team-mate Jeffrey Schlupp as Leicester City travel to South Wales to take on Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium in the Premier League on Saturday.
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As City dropped to third, Arsenal went to second – two points behind Leicester – by halting a three-game winless run with a 3-1 victory over Sunderland that saw Olivier Giroud score for both teams.
“I think what Jamie’s done in the game now, I think he deserves the opportunity to pit his wits in the Champions League and I think he’s worthy of playing for one of the top three or four clubs in England and also playing for his national team”.
What may ultimately settle this fixture is defence.
“I think he’s very confident, great self-belief”.
Leicester has been the surprise packet this season and sits second on the ladder behind Manchester City on goal difference.
You always feel that Rovers – regardless of how well they are actually doing – are always one or two results away from a crisis so getting some sort of result at Exeter last weekend following on from back-to-back defeats was important.
But Manchester United were unable to follow Leicester and Arsenal’s lead, registering a 0-0 draw at home to West Ham United that left them level on points with City in fourth place.
The Foxes are unbeaten in nine league games, extending their stunning run just months after they barely avoided relegation at the end of last season.
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Premier League leaders City were blown away inside the opening 15 minutes at the Britannia Stadium with Xherdan Shaqiri setting up Marko Arnautovic to score twice for the rampant hosts and they barely threatened Stoke’s goal thereafter.
Since then, the milestones have zipped past: 16 goals in Leicester’s Championship promotion campaign, five in his first season as a Premier League player (including one in a dizzy 5-3 win over Manchester United) and a first England cap last June.
The pair were later involved in an altercation outside the Swansea dressing room, before the Algeria worldwide was ushered out of the stadium by a Leicester official. “We can’t accept how we played today”, City keeper Joe Hart said.
If Swansea’s luck was in on those occasions it was out again at the other end when Gomis was clean through on goal but was denied by Kasper Schmeichel, who had been a spectator for most of the afternoon, and then Sigurdsson beat Schmeichel with a curling effort but the woodwork again came to City’s rescue. Also, it’s: Chelsea vs. Bournemouth; West Bromwich Albion vs. Tottenham; Watford vs. Norwich; and Southampton vs. Aston Villa.
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What has to be understood is that even though goals from strikers are to be expected and scoring them in consecutive games makes for a great graphic or talking point, the actual execution is pure lottery, pure chance, pure luck.
