Claudio Ranieri praises fringe players as Leicester keep title bid on track

“It is important to be patient, to be solid, to maintain clean sheets, and then you can win at the end of the match”.

In the day’s early game, West Ham United surged into fifth place in the table in what has become their best-ever Premier League campaign in their final season at Upton Park, holding off a stirring fightback from Sunderland to win 1-0.

“You can lose but it’s only one point less than a draw”.

Yes, I realize West Brom appeared to wake up at home and score three against Crystal Palace, but I particularly like Leicester’s defense, which has carried them recently, as it did against Norwich Saturday in their thrilling 1-0 victory.

“We took the risk”.

When asked 24 hours later what he made of those claims, Pochettino said: “I laughed a little bit”.

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. I said: “‘In or out – it’s not important now.’ One point is nothing – we have to win”, he said.

“Always, I believe, because we put this mentality into our players, “we must believe until the end”.

“I hope to win something but already we won, because we are safe and now we are dreaming.” he said. Thanks to extensive TV coverage with NBC & NBCSN (English Premier League) and Fox Sports 1 (Champions League, Europa League, Bundesliga and FA Cup) and social media, you can easily follow the top clubs and players from around the globe.

“I think it was a deserved win for us”, said Chelsea interim manager Hiddink.

Leicester relied on a late Leonardo Ulloa goal to beat Norwich after being frustrated by the battling Canaries but hit back following their previous 2-1 defeat to Arsenal.

The match against Norwich City on Saturday was a new test for the leaders, who have been used to seeing opposition teams come on to them, which has given them the opportunity to counter-attack in such devastating fashion.

“At the beginning I chose King and Danny Drinkwater and they played very well together”.

Leicester midfielder N’Golo Kante has been ruled out of the title-chasing Foxes’ next two matches. We need to focus again. Between that and the spectacular Federation Internationale de Football Association video games, it’s no wonder that younger generations in the USA love the game like never before.

“We need to pick up points, we need to do it quickly, we know that we’re running out of games, but we seem to be confident and we’ve got a lot of belief in the group that we’re capable of doing it”.

Success came after Ranieri threw caution to the wind by sacrificing a defender to deploy a 3-5-2 system late on.