Leicester City go top of Premier League after victory at West Ham

We started well, but after 10-15 minutes, they were quicker than us.

Okazaki was involved in Leicester’s well-worked second in the 38th minute, feeding Marc Albrighton who burst into the West Ham box and cut the ball back for Mahrez to sweep home.

Ranieri, whose regular rotation policy when at Chelsea was much derided, kept an unchanged side at the Boleyn Ground. Able to defend for long periods themselves, Ranieri’s outfit are well-organised and looking a lot more impressive than many expected.

“We want to achieve 40 points to maintain the Premier League (status)”, the Italian coach said. With every player though, they just have to learn lessons from this game and every other one. It could be, could be.

Here’s the play as we all saw it on television broadcast. I am called the Tinkerman, after all.

Leicester was in the headlines for the wrong reasons during the week, with striker Jamie Vardy fined after he was filmed using racist language toward a Japanese man in a casino.

Japan global Okazaki, who joined from German club Mainz this summer, opened his Leicester account in style in the 27th minute when he headed home the rebound after Adrian had kept out his initial volley.

Former transfer target Bafetimbi Gomis came back to haunt 10-man Newcastle United as he scored the first as Swansea cruised to a 2-0 win at the Liberty Stadium.

The Foxes took the lead through new signing Shinji Okazaki’s first goal, with Riyad Mahrez ensuring that Dimitri Payet’s finish for the Hammers was a mere consolation.

This would be a tough and entertaining match as both teams are out to follow-up their great starts in the latest season.

West Ham wanted a penalty on the stroke of half-time as Schmeichel and Diafra Sakho collided inside the Leicester box after the Senegal forward had poked the ball past the Foxes’ goalkeeper, but referee Anthony Taylor was unmoved.

“If David Sullivan and David Gold have told Slaven Bilic that they expect to get into Europe this year then I think it’s way beyond the capabilities of the squad at this moment in time”.

Schmeichel shrugged off any relief to focus on the team’s strong bond. Russel Martin and Steven Whittaker netted in the first half before Nathan Redmond struck after the break as Alex Neil claimed his first English top flight win. We did that and we’ve got to try to keep that going for as much as we can now’.

“It is all part of being a good team, the stuff off the pitch is just as important as on the pitch and it shows in the results”.