In the last five games Gunners won only six points, but they are only five points behind Leicester City with opportunity to reduce that difference to only two points.
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Leicester City have stunned everyone in the Premier League and across Europe with their incredible title challenge this season when they were widely tipped for a relegation fight after last season’s great escape. “Is it possible? Why not?” But once you are top of the league, you can also think about losing what you have.
“We’ll just continue to do exactly the same thing we’ve done all season”. I ask Petr Cech to lead a bit more because they don’t talk too much. Melchiot: “Yes I am and I’m sure a lot of people are because last season Leicester just survived relegation”.
Riyad Mahrez has refused to end speculation linking him with a move away from Leicester City at the season’s end and has admitted he’d be keen to play alongside Lionel Messi one day. First of all (you look at) your attendance and then you are being compared many times to foreign clubs.
Nathaniel Whessell from Brighton put a bet on the Foxes while chatting to pals at a game in Peacehaven last summer and Claudio Ranieri’s men have responded by shocking the football universe. “After that, let’s not count too much on any weakness of Leicester, because they have not shown too many”.
Save for a brutal 5-2 shellacking at the hands of Arsenal (more on that in a second), Leicester has been exceptional, losing only to Liverpool at Liverpool in a should-have-beat-them-handily kind of game.
Leicester City is very lucky with injuries, or absence of them, so Ranieri will have his full crop of players to choose from for the trip to London.
“No. We will try of course to stop their counter-attacking”.
In 2014, Alan and Robbie went backside to backside in a gruelling battle that saw them race to sit on 45,000 seats each at Wembley Stadium, raising much needed funds for Sport Relief.
Tottenham, who travel to Manchester City on Sunday, have quietly gone about their business, with Leicester stealing all the headlines, and find themselves in second place with the best defensive record in the league with only 19 goals conceded in 25 games.
Arsenal had a half-hearted penalty claim turn down after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s cross struck the arm of N’Golo Kante from close range, but it was the visitors – unchanged for the sixth straight game – who created the first major opportunity. “I don’t think that we have a massive problem on that front”.
Betfred boss Fred Done said the bookmaker stand to lose more than £1 million if Leicester pull off the most unlikely title win in English football history.
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Arsenal picked up three points with a 2 – 0 win over Bournemouth at the weekend.
