Manager Claudio Ranieri was not downbeat following defeat to Arsenal earlier today.
Making the trip to the Emirates Stadium to face off against one of the few sides to beat us already this campaign, Leicester came out on the wrong end of a two one defeat having been reduced to ten men, but we did of course take the lead through Jamie Vardy’s penalty and Arsenal needed a five minutes stoppage time winner to take the game.
For Ranieri as he spoke to lcfc.com in his post game press conference, whilst there was obviously disappointment at the defeat, he wasn’t going to get carried away as he felt there were plenty of positives he could take.
Not least we remain two points clear of Arsenal in Premier League top spot.
‘It was a good performance. We tried to do our best. We lost the match but I think if we played 11 vs. 11 we could have scored also another goal. We`re disappointed because we saved two great goals with Kasper Schmeichel and then just with the last chance they had they scored a goal. I give compliments to my players because it was the same performance as Manchester City. There we won, but today we lost. I`m happy with our performance, not with the result, but the performance was good. Of course everybody is sad but I told them from the beginning, the performance is important and the performance was outstanding.’
With wriggle room at the top of the table and now a short break in the fixture list, Ranieri went on to say that all that matters is the side keep taking it one game at a time and we neither get to high or too low – and certainly don’t forward think things.
‘For us it`s not important now to think about whether we`re top of the league or not. We want to fight and we want to continue to show this kind of performance and at the end we`ll see where we are.’
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