Leicester City top Hull City for second win in a week

Having taken temporary charge of Leicester’s two games following Claudio Ranieri’s sacking, Shakespeare has now led Leicester to two much needed league wins to haul themselves further away from the battle at the foot of the table.

“You could tell from the first 10 or 15 minutes, the way we started the game and pressed”.

Jamie Vardy has netted only five times before the Liverpool game, but last season’s sensation “exploded” against his favorite Premier League opponent – five out of last six Leicester’s Premier League goals against Liverpool have been scored by Jamie Vardy.

Riyad Mahrez gifted Craig Shakespeare his second win in as many games by showing the same trickery which saw him crowned African player of the year in 2016.

It was against the run of play when Hull took the lead after 14 minutes.

Caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare went back to last season’s winning formula by recalling Shinji Okazaki to the starting 11.

Mahrez scored his first goal from open play in the Premier League this season.

“I think its bigger [against Hull than Liverpool]”.

“The owners will make a decision for the good of the club and until I talk to them I don’t know what that will be”.

“I’ll leave that to the powers that be”, said Shakespeare when asked about the managerial search. “We need to think game by game and right now we only think about Leicester on Saturday”, added the manager, whose team host fellow strugglers Swansea City after the Leicester game.

However, they fell behind to a 14th-minute goal from Clucas, who was released by the Foxes as a schoolboy.

Hull are now four points adrift of safety and boss Marco Silva conceded they are facing an uphill task.

“But the most important thing is when we have a chance to score, we score”.

“Now is the moment to rest and analyse the game with the players and then we work towards the next game against Swansea”. We must put back-to-back wins together.

Marko Arnautovic’s first-half double helped Stoke bounce back from their recent hammering to beat Middlesbrough at the bet365 Stadium.