Ranieri: I was ‘so worried’ before late win

Premier League leaders, Leicester City, have had a couple of weeks to reflect upon their heartbreaking defeat at Arsenal and on Saturday (today) welcome lowly Norwich City on matchday 27.

Jamie Vardy has won more penalties in the Premier League this season alone (6) than all of the other 19 Premier League teams.

Guus Hiddink’s Chelsea extended their unbeaten run to 11 league games in a 2-1 comeback victory at in-form Southampton, who had won five and drawn one of their previous six league matches.

Villa scored a late consolation when Leandro Bacuna thundered into the corner for Remi Garde’s side.

“I don’t know if it gives me an advantage – but, believe me, I am their fans when they play in Europe: ‘Come on, man!'” Ranieri said, smiling.

They’re still on top, but North London duo, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, are now just two points behind following the former’s win at another title rival, Manchester City.

Neil added: “There have been teams in the league that have got points off them, we have been watching a lot of footage of teams who have played against them this season to see how they went about it”.

Leicester went into the game looking to recover from their late loss at Arsenal, and it looked like they would have to settle for a point against struggling Norwich. I’m very focused on these five matches – after we can say where we are: “We are here, OK, keep going”, or ‘No, what happened?’. It’s a question I’ve asked on the show nearly every week whether it was Mark Lawrenson, Brian Kerr or Jason McAteer we talked to. “We didn’t have a great game, but we deserved to win and are happy about it”. “I don’t think it is very heavy”. They deserve to have a rest.

Danny Simpson will be suspended for the visit of Norwich but Daniel Amartey, the Ghana worldwide signed for £5million in January, is ready to make his Premier League debut. We set ourselves the target of doing as well as we can.

“Whatever way you want to cut it, people want to win”.

But Wenger refused to read too much into the wins as the Frenchman explained that he never expected Manchester United to lose those two games against minnows.

“They might still moan about the performance but that is the nature of football”.

“They have struck upon a way they are comfortable playing and they have had players who have made differences in crucial games”.

“Someone is always not going to be happy and people are entitled to their opinion”.