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Convincing wins over the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea FC have proved that the Foxes can perform well on a consistent basis.

Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez has proven he should be considered among the Premier League’s best players, according to team-mate Leonardo Ulloa.

Tireless chasing, selfless running in behind combined with a clinical eye for goal has seen the forward endear himself to the Leicester City fans. “He has been (playing) at a good level and there is no substance in that rumour”. But it has lost just one of its last five matches and has closed to within eight points of safety.

Still, the fairy tale was finally expected to end during their current trio of fixtures, at home to Liverpool and away to Manchester City and Arsenal.

That was a 5-2 hammering at the King Power Stadium in September – a result many expected would precipitate a return to the lower regions of the table.

The onus is on Arsenal so Leicester can sit back, let the home side dominate possession and then try and pick them off as they have done repeatedly this season. For us it’s important to play and continue in this way because it is a unusual league.

“He thinks about his game a lot, a he works really hard and he has exhilarating pace”.

Mahrez’s skills and pace has enhanced Leicester’s counter attacking style and they frighten teams with their ability to play on the break.

“[A win] can maybe prepare you in a better condition for the next game”, said Wenger, pointing to the importance of momentum and confidence built up from beating Bournemouth. I just wish we were in a relegation scrap again. “We’re just enjoying the ride”, said Jamie Vardy, who leads the Premier League with 18 goals. Lineker does not hold out too much hope for any of England’s three representatives going all the way in this year’s competition, tipping Barcelona to finally end the sequence that has seen the holders fail to retain their title ever since the new format was introduced in 1992. Arsenal are already trailing in the title race and can not afford to drop any more points.

“We’ll just take every game as it comes, knuckle down and hopefully keep picking points up”.

Leicester spent most of the past decade outside the Premier League, while Tottenham’s target is usually a top-four finish, something they have achieved only twice since 1992. Not even when Blackburn Rovers won the championship back in 1995 was the English game turned upside down like it has been this season.