Christmas number one leaves Ranieri beaming

Leicester’s rise has been one of the most remarkable stories of recent times, and they have become the neutrals’ favorites in the title race.

“But two things were very, very fantastic for me”.

The game was 10 minutes old before the first real threat was posed as Leicester’s Marc Albrighton fired in a low cross that Okazaki reacted to quickest but his flicked effort flew over Tim Howard’s crossbar.

“The very fact we’re asking this question, it would seem ludicrous a couple of months ago even with the great, great start”.

Roberto Martínez two goals “should have been enough to win a home game”, theory was flawed because the second, from Kevin Mirallas, arrived in injury time and Everton were dead for quite some time by then, the lack of leadership glaring.

They calm the storm, cancel out our danger players and we get punished.

Riyad Mahrez celebrates scoring the second goal for Leicester from the penalty spot in their Premier League match against Everton at Goodison Park.

“The performance in a defensive way was very good because Everton moved the ball very fast to try and create some space and if I think how many saves Kasper (Schmeichel) made, there were not too many”.

“Why are we under pressure – why stress?” he asked.

Branislav Ivanovic, Pedro and Oscar scored the goals to lift them to 15th, albeit still only four points above the bottom three.

Leicester, who avoided going down in May thanks to a late run of victories under Nigel Pearson, began the season at odds of 1,000-1 to be top of the Premier League at Christmas.

The former Leicester striker continued his questioning over the appointment via Breath Sport when he said: ‘Claudio Ranieri is clearly experienced, but this is an uninspired choice by Leicester.

In contrast, average resale ticket prices for Champions League games at Arsenal (£165) and Manchester City (£147) are slightly more expensive than Premier League games – which on average cost £164 and £133 to attend at Arsenal and City respectively. Leicester are just in that mode at the moment, ‘ he told the Sun.

The goals we’re conceding have been from individual mistakes and it’s decision-making.

Hopes of a comeback were raised when an excellent flick from Barkley set up substitute Mirallas and the Belgium global smashed a shot home at the near post with one minute remaining. It is hard for the other teams to play against us.

“It is not a time to blame the unfortunate action of the referee, we need to be better”.