Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini feels his side played well

Otamendi arrived at City in August and can already see Kompany’s importance to the side, but said Manuel Pellegrini had the depth to cover his absence.

“In the second half of the season we will continue improving”.

“It (recent results) has given everyone a nice boost at a key time of year, but it’s nothing we did not feel internally was not coming or was overdue, so I would not say it has been anything more than we have deserved”, Howe said at a press conference. We are in the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup and through in the Champions League so I don’t think it is important to split it into home and away.

The Foxes are joint top of the Premier League despite being tipped for relegation after only just avoiding the drop last term. If you ask me are we happy so far?

“They were two really tough fixtures (over Christmas), so this is about making sure we can go into the Leicester game and perform, and the only way to do that is to recover properly”.

Luckily, Klopp is a logical man and he’s picked Jamie Vardy as the player who impressed him most in the first four months of the season.

With their title credential under the microscope after defeat at Liverpool on Boxing Day, Leicester responded with a typically hard-working performance and were a match for City.

Ranieri added: ” They are concentrating, they must be very professional. It will be a hard match.

Vardy is the Premier League’s joint-top scorer with 15 goals while Mahrez has been involved in more goals than any other player in the top division scoring 13 and laying on 7 assists. It’s not easy for us but we want to fight with everybody.

“We are a solid team and we want to continue together with everybody”.