No goal power at King Power for Leicester, Man City

Manchester City have gone off the boil after a good start to the season and the team should have been placed higher than third in the Premier League table at the end of the year, goalkeeper Joe Hart has said.

Wes Morgan sees no reason why Leicester City can not continue its sparkling form in 2016 ahead of the club’s game with AFC Bournemouth.

“We want to develop and get more points in these very important moments in the league”. It was hard. We played well, we created some chances.

“For us it’s important to concentrate 100 per cent”.

“Jamie and Mahrez have said we want to stay we want to fight to the end”.

The uncertainty of the Premier league has reached new heights this season and with nearly half of it still remaining we can be sure to expect the unexpected.

Leicester City have surprised all this season, vacating the top of the Barclays Premier League for the majority of the competition.

Leicester have failed to score in their last two games having found the back of the net in each of their first 20 matches in all competitions this season.

“This is another aspect”, said Ranieri. I wanted to see how my players responded after the Liverpool defeat and they responded well.

Man City manager Manuel Pellegrini was buoyed by the clean sheet but, with Sergio Aguero needing “two or three more games” to return to top fitness after injury, expressed frustration that his side lacked a cutting edge. We had more possession, more attempts, more options but it was a tough game against a tough team playing away.

“In the second half of the season we will keep improving and if you ask me if I’m happy, I say yes because we are near the top of the table”.

“We handled him quite well here in the first game [in August] and our defenders will need to be alert because he is one of those players who only needs one chance to have an impact on the game”.

Title rivals Manchester City and Arsenal face Champions League ties with Dynamo Kiev and Barcelona respectively when that competition resumes in February while City are also in the League Cup semi final against Stoke.