Ranieri: Leicester City have the neutrals’ support

West Brom Head Coach Tony Pulis has said it would be fantastic if Leicester went on to win the Premier League and shake up the top four.

According to the BBC, City fan Keval Nakeshree put the stake on at the start of the season, gambling on his team topping the league at Christmas with odds of 1000 to 1.

Claudio Ranieri is eager to keep Leicester City supporters’ dreams of a sustained Premier League title tilt burning bright into 2016. “We had our moment after the game to speak about the game, then you have to ignore it, use the information and look forward”. “We need to be concentrated [on Saturday] from the first second”.

“I have big respect for Claudio and the whole Leicester squad because they are doing really well”. It is stupid if we have pressure. Why? We hope to continue this winning streak. With Friminho and Couthino playing more through the center this is a team that has pace and trickery but this time of year the weather is not condusive to the type of ball that they want to play.

Danny Drinkwater (hamstring) and Matty James (match fitness) are set to miss out for Leicester while Klopp will be without Martin Skrtel (hamstring) for six weeks as the German seeks to end a hard run of results.

Mahrez cost the club a meagre £300,000 in 2014 when they signed him from Le Havre in France, making a sale for the quoted figure one that would yield a huge profit.

Jurgen Klopp is expecting Liverpool to learn the lessons of their loss to Watford when they play host to Leicester.

He added: “I have good strikers”.

Leicester City will be looking to consolidate their position as league leaders when they take on Liverpool at Anfield on Boxing Day.

Much of Leicester’s success has stemmed from having two of the league’s outstanding performers in top scorer Jamie Vardy (15 goals) and Algerian Mahrez, who has scored 13 and laid on a further seven. “It’s better this season than last season so we can’t complain”.

Liverpool are marginally odds-on at 10/11 with Sky Bet as Leicester are rated 14/5 outsiders to maintain their most unlikely of title tilts with a win.