Premier League Player Ratings: Leicester City 3-2 West Ham

The reigning Premier League champions are the only English representatives in the quarter-finals of the competition after goals from Morgan and Marc Albrighton secured a 2-0 win over LaLiga high flyers Sevilla on Tuesday – overturning a 2-1 first-leg deficit at a raucous King Power Stadium.

Those are arguably just as vital as the 2-0 home win over Sevilla which sent last year’s Premier League champions into the last eight of the Champions League.

West Ham will need to put in a much-improved display from their 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth a week ago, with a tie with Leicester beckoning. “But if you are talking about the performances and results, they are getting the results they wanted”.

Record signing Andre Ayew was in the starting line-up, he has impressed during the last few games so deserved a start. But from the resulting corner, Ayew turned in after Andy Carroll had headed back across goal, giving the home side renewed hope.

“Depending on how long it goes on for, we will be out training because we are travelling down to West Ham afterwards”.

“In the second half when they had to fight for their lives, they have done it because they have momentum on their side”, West Ham manager Slaven Bilic said.

“He is very important and I think all goalkeepers are”, said Shakespeare.

Leicester are unbeaten in five matches in all competitions against West Ham, winning four and drawing one. Lukaku’s value to the team is underlined by the fact he’s the first Everton player to score 21 league goals in a season since Gary Lineker in 1985-1986. Whether this is to be or not to be is one question, but Leicester City will definitely be in attendance at the upcoming Betting on Football Conference in May (3-5).

Whereas Craig Shakespeare’s Leicester have moved three points clear of the drop zone after successive league wins over Liverpool and Hull City respectively.

Billy Jones missed the hosts’ best opportunity with a second-half header as David Moyes’ men halted a three-match losing streak, but again failed to find the net.

“The first was very sloppy from us and then two set-pieces which we know they are good at – we can’t concede goals like that”.

Schmeichel kept Leicester’s lead intact in stoppage time with a reflex save to deny Carroll after Snodgrass’s free-kick had been deflected into the striker’s path.

“We said once the Champions League draw was made let’s concentrate on the Premier League”.

“[Antonio] felt something. He played the whole game but the medical team have told me now”. Back-to-back Premier League wins has seen the Foxes drift out to 13/2 to face relegation, while they are 33/1 to win the Champions League after reaching the quarter-finals.