Leicester boss Craig Shakespeare delighted with Stoke win

“We shored it up later, so the clean sheet is pleasing”. “One we will be ready for but we have to keep our feet firmly on the ground”.

“There are a lot of twists and turns to come and we’re proof of that”, said Shakespeare. We’re proof of that.

Shakespeare’s brief tenure has been accompanied by the return to form of Vardy.

Ndidi has been my MOM in nearly every game he’s played for Leicester. They are a fully committed side.

“He added: “[Ndidi] is young and we don’t want to put too much pressure on him. “Hopefully he’ll be back for the Liverpool match”.

With Craig Shakespeare in charge, Leicester have won four consecutive games.

The 53-year-old is in good company, joining Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Guus Hiddink and Pep Guardiola as the only managers to achieve the feat.

Compared to last season’s tally of 24 in 36, he’s been hugely sub-par as Leicester follow-up their sensational Premier League title win, with a relegation battle.

The Englishman has scored three times in his last four appearances, whilst he also found the net for England in a World Cup qualifying victory over Lithuania.

Gray impressed in just his eighth league start of the season but conceded he has wanted to play more.

Shakespeare hopes, however, that winger Marc Albrighton will recover from the sickness bug that kept him out of the Stoke win.

Mark Hughes’ Stoke squad are in the middle of the table because they beat who they’re supposed to beat and lose to the teams in the top eight. Simpson got seven per cent of the vote and Vardy six per cent.

Stoke (from): Grant, Given, Shawcross, Pieters, Bardsley, Martins Indi, Muniesa, Cameron, Whelan, Adam, Imbula, Allen, Afellay, Arnautovic, Sobhi, Shaqiri, Walters, Crouch, Berahino, Diouf, Bony.