Leicester are represented in the latest Premier League team of the week that has been selected by BBC pundit Garth Crooks.
Actually Garth is now down as a ‘Football Analyst’ these days, a posh term for a pundit then!
The performance by N’Golo Kante in the two one loss to Arsenal at the weekend at the Emirates Stadium was enough to earn them a place in the side alongside the other, in the opinion of the former Spurs striker anyway, most impressive performers in the topflight over the latest weekend.
I think we’ll already know ourselves, and not just based on the latest performance, why Crooks, we’ll also not argue with it, selected Kante as part of his team but explaining his choice he told the BBC.
‘This was a game between the paupers and the aristocrats. Leicester have players who cost a fraction of the price of Arsenal and get even less in salaries. Yet you would never have detected that in City’s 2-1 defeat at the Emirates. N’Golo Kante epitomises what Leicester is all about and the nearest thing I’ve seen to the former Chelsea and Real Madrid superstar Claude Makelele. Leicester deserved a point in this match and if Danny Simpson and Marcin Wasilewski had not panicked at vital moments against the Gunners it would have been a very different outcome. And this is the point – can Leicester hold their nerve?’
It’s always good to see us represented in this way, and well played to Kante for his recognition, but the most important thing about the weekend was of course showing that Leicester continue to compete even if the result didn’t go their way this time.
A point dropped maybe – but still two clear at the top of the Premier League.
Full Team:
Fraser Forster (Southampton), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Robbie Brady (Norwich), John O’Shea (Sunderland), Lamine Kone (Sunderland), Giannelli Imbula (Stoke), N’Golo Kante (Leicester), Pedro (Chelsea), Willian (Chelsea), Mousa Dembele (Tottenham), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool).
Vital Leicester on:
