Craig Shakespeare hopes to continue in Leicester hot-seat

The England striker scored twice in Leicester’s 3-1 victory over Liverpool at the King Power Stadium on Monday night – the first game of the post-Ranieri era.

Senior Leicester players, including Vardy, have rallied against suggestions they plotted the Italian’s downfall since his departure.

The win will do Craig Shakespeare’s chances of landing the job until the end of the season no harm.

Fans gathered at the Clock Tower at 18:00 GMT where they sang Leicester City and Claudio Ranieri songs alongside a gospel choir from De Montfort University.

“I could see in their eyes that they were up to the fight in the warm up”, the 53-year-old Shakespeare said.

You’ll struggle to find a more popular manager in England, but Jurgen Klopp’s stock fell significantly on Monday night as his side lost 3-1 at Leicester City.

“But when the play broke down, they were always the ones to pick up the [loose] balls and were getting on to us”.

Danny Drinkwater got into the action minutes later, scoring an absolute screamer of a volley from 25 yards to double the Foxes lead. “I spoke to them in the dressing room, that’s not enough for sure, not even close to being enough”.

My remit was one game, and that’s what I said.

Liverpool have now won just two of their last 12 games and are effectively out of the title race given they are 14 points behind leaders Chelsea. Does it faze me? No.

The former assistant manager knows the club inside and out, having been first team coach for eight of the last nine years, and is believed to be popular with the players.

“All we have to do is play football on the pitch”.

“We should get criticised”. Of course, performances have influence on these things.

But let’s throw a few more tweets in, just to make our point. “We reminded the players of what they did past year”. Ultimately for Leicester, and any team that has recently been promoted, staying up is the number one priority as the financial benefits are huge compared to playing in the Championship. It was clear how emotional the game was because if Leicester didn’t show emotion it would be really unusual.