EPL form a worry as Leicester enters defining week in Europe

But speaking afterwards, the Italian sought to dismiss the suggestion that cracks are beginning to appear in his Leicester outfit and was instead keen to focus on his side’s positives. If you don’t have confidence you don’t try to react, but we did that well.

“I just think a lot of the chances I was getting last year have not been there this year”.

“We had a fantastic reaction”.

Leicester will be without record signing Islam Slimani for Tuesday’s clash with Bruges after he failed to recover from a groin problem that also ruled him out at Watford. I am pleased with our performance. “I’m proud of them”.

Mahrez had an effort eight minutes after the break as Ranieri’s men pushed for an equaliser, but the Algeria worldwide saw it blocked deep in the Hornets box. At the beginning we were losing 2-0, but we got back in the match.

“Prodl is back, too, and I hope that will help get the confidence back to (how it was) before we played Liverpool”. The spirit, everything was right. They play well, create chances and have good players.

But the close season brought with it a period of soul-searching after Arsenal triggered a release clause in his contract with a £22 million (RM119.9 million) bid.

“There’s no concern at all”, said the 29-year-old, whose side are on the brink of the Champions League last 16 ahead of Belgian side Club Brugge’s visit on Tuesday next week.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has said he believes the Foxes will see “a new Jamie Vardy” after the striker ended his goal drought by scoring for England against Spain. “We did the same against Hull City but unfortunately against Hull City we couldn’t score. We still need to understand how his [Okaka’s] condition is at the moment, but he should be available at least from the bench”.

The Foxes’ historic 5000-1 success delivered a total economic output of £193m, generated taxes of £78m and supported 2,500 jobs, the report by EY for the club and the Premier League estimates. “But I don’t think there’s been a big difference in our approach”.

“I expect a game completely different from the one we had against Liverpool, but I want them to show it on the pitch rather than me talk about it”.

“We wanted to attack from the beginning, we wanted to do the same against Hull but that time we didn’t score”.

Leicester could also become the first team since Malaga in 2012/13 to win their group in their first Champions League appearance. “We played the same way as other games”.