Mauricio Pochettino: ‘It is a 10-way Premier League title race’

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Given the complex and competitive nature of the division this season Spurs will be desperate not to slip out of the Champions League positions, having worked so hard to reach them.

Arsenal – Arsene Wenger: “I remember saying two months ago that the team that maintains consistency in their results and performances will certainly have a good chance to [win the league]. I’ll see if he starts from the beginning and if he is ready to come with me on the bench”, Ranieri was quoted saying on The Independent.

Leicester City’s Shinji Okazaki, right, shields the ball from Tottenham Hotspur’s Toby Alderweireld.

“They say Arsenal, Tottenham, United, City, Chelsea, who are used to fighting for the title, say ‘Leicester are there, but can they arrive at the end and fight?'”

“It’s only January. It’s not May”, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri cautioned.

He said: “It is not nice at all, I’m a Villa fan since I was born and it was drummed into me”.

Claudio Ranieri watched his Leicester City team draw level on points with Arsenal at the top of the English Premier League after a 1-0 win at Tottenham on Wednesday, but maintained any title talk was silly.

It is a streetwise style that has carried them to joint-top of the Premier League.

“But we need to give Leicester full credit because the way they fight and believe is unbelievable”.

Watford lost a third straight game as they went down 2-0 to Southampton, who scored in either half through Shane Long and Dusan Tadic.

“We achieved 39 points from the first half of the season and we want to improve”, said Ranieri.

“They know what to do in every single way”, said Vertonghen. Leicester haven’t won a football match since a mid-December away victory against Everton.

Vertonghen has admitted Leicester’s approach to Wednesday’s match was no surprise for Spurs, telling Ham & High: “They always play the same game – they drop and then they count on set pieces or on one of their strikers”. We had 24 to 26 of crosses, more than 62 possession of the ball, we created a lot of chances.