Premier League Top Scorer: Manchester United Man Is My Toughest Opponent

He said: “The one thing we have had is that everyone is together, everyone is fighting for the same cause which when you are having a hard season is really pleasing and a source of strength in the remaining games”.

Ranieri returned to Italy during Leicester’s break and watched Real Madrid’s 2-0 win over Roma in the Champions League, and admitted he rarely switches off.

The Argentine’s goal, only his third of the season, puts the pressure on Leicester’s closest rivals Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, who host Swansea City and visit Manchester United respectively on Sunday.

But Norwich did not only defend and had opportunities to win it.

Danny Welbeck’s injury-time victor saw Leicester lose 2-1 to Arsenal last time out and Ranieri has warned his players not to take struggling Norwich – or their other opponents – lightly.

The relegation-threatened Canaries looked to be on course for their first away clean sheet of the season, but Leonardo Ulloa got the only goal of the game in the final minute of normal time to secure all three points for the league leaders.

“I don’t know if it gives me an advantage – but, believe me, I am their fans when they play in Europe: ‘Come on, man!'” Ranieri said, smiling. “I don’t want to take a big risk on his fitness”, Hiddink told the BBC.

Comparing the pursuit of the title to a horse race, Ranieri said: “I think we are at the turn, there is the last turn, then the run-in”.

– Norwich have taken one point from their last seven Premier League games. I hope to win something but already we have won – we are safe and now we are dreaming.

The striker – without a goal since December – rose highest to meet Robbie Brady’s 39th-minute corner but glanced a six-yard effort wide. We lost a match in the last second against Arsenal and today we won in the last minute.

“I remember the first match, we had great chances at the beginning”.

For Norwich, the result leaves them dangling dangerously close to the drop, level on points with eighteenth-placed Newcastle United, who have a game in hand. We fight for the maximum, every match three points.

Neil’s focus shifted quickly to the club’s midweek game against Chelsea, saying: “I’m not going to dwell on it too much because we’ve got a game on Tuesday”.

Elsewhere, West Ham moved up to provisional fifth place after a 1-0 win over Sunderland in the early kickoff, while Watford was held to 0-0 at home by Bournemouth, and Stoke beat bottom club Aston Villa 2-1.