Mauricio Pochettino hoped the Premier League leaders would be tripped up by their top scorer’s ban but they reached into reserves of manpower and spiritThe question everyone wanted to know the respond to was how Leicester City would cope without Jamie Vardy,their leading goalscorer and one of the central characters in English football’s most unlikely narrative. The response was delivered triumphantly by the Leicester City supporters in the closing minutes as “4-0 to the one-man team” reverberated round the King Power Stadium.
Whether Mauricio Pochettinos claim that Vardy’s suspension would absorb a “big impact” on Leicester’s title pursuit was a waggish attempt at intellect games or a genuine assessment of how he saw the situation, it turned out to be no more than wishful thinking on the part of the Tottenham Hotspur manager.
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Source: theguardian.com