Manchester City v Leicester City

Vardy grabbed both goals in the Foxes 2-0 midweek victory over Liverpool as they maintained their three point lead at the top of the Premier League.

Vardy’s exploits in front of goal this season – he has 18 Premier League goals – have been pivotal to Leicester’s surprise title challenge.

“Today Vardy and Kane show big quality and the same quality as Aguero”, Pochettino said.

Even Vardy had to concede on Sky Sports: “To be fair, I don’t think I’ve scored a better goal than that”.

“I’ve got no problems and, as each game comes, we’re going to get better and stronger and hopefully I’ll get the season out with no more niggles, ” he said.

After a brief lull at the start of last month, when he had a minor groin operation, Vardy is back to full strength and manager Claudio Ranieri believes he is at 100 per cent again.

“The goal was a fantastic goal”.

Joe Hart has hailed Manchester City star striker Sergio Aguero as a “killer” on the pitch ahead of Saturday’s title showdown with Leicester.

Schmeichel becomes City’s third player of this campaign to be nominated for this monthly award, the two others being Vardy and Mahrez.

“We know it will be another tough match (at Man City)”.

Great goals have to be appreciated in whatever circumstances they come in. For a bit of extra value, take the 7/5 they are leading at half-time and go on to win. United is in fifth place, five points off the Champions League qualification spots and 10 points behind Leicester.

They rarely threatened the Foxes and Christian Benteke had another anonymous outing from the bench to further cast doubt over his role in Klopp’s team.

Faltering Arsenal failed to win for a fourth league game in succession as they suffered a night of frustration at home to Southampton in a 0-0 stalemate.

He said: “We had opportunities in the box but we didn’t find the right decision often enough. He got one chance, stuck it in the corner and won us the game”. We had the ball in their box and didn’t shoot.

Ranieri’s side continue to swagger through the league having banked an extraordinary 50 points from 24 games, while also possessing the league’s most prolific goal-scorer in Jamie Vardy and one of the top assist providers in the country in Riyad Mahrez.

He has scored seven goals in seven games after his latest strike, in a 3-0 win over Stoke on Tuesday that relieved pressure on manager Louis van Gaal. I don’t feel too good in this moment.