Chapter 1: What were the key moments in the Leicester vs. West Ham match?
Extraordinary. But it was never going to be straightforward. But what twists and turns in the title race in that second half here at the King Power Stadium. Kasper Schmeichel shaking his head for the Leicester fans. He went from jubilation at half-time to despair after the sending off of Jamie Vardy, then the penalty, to jubilation again with that penalty late on.
And eventually a draw that will feel like a win. Huge, huge decisions by John Moss at the King Power Stadium. What next in this extraordinary title race? The fact is Leicester need eight more points now to be champions. Elsewhere today, Liverpool have beaten Bournemouth by two goals to one. They're eighth in the table on 51 points now, level with Southampton.
West Ham's point is there on 53, three behind Manchester United. European hopes still alive.
Chapter 2: How did Jamie Vardy's sending off impact the game?
And Leicester, the gap at the top is eight points. It is over to Spurs, who play on Monday night football. What will their fans have made of that last ten minutes or so?
Well, Claudia, what did you make of that? I waited a difficult match and it was very, very tough. We were lucky at the first minute when they had a chance to touch the ball, to post and after we scored a goal, played our football against a very good team and we lost the chance at the beginning of the second half when Okazaki made a cross and Vardy was very close to finishing the action.
And then after the send-off changed all our matches. What's your opinion of the sending-off? I don't know. I judge my players, not the referee. The referee watches this, it's OK. So you say you judge your players. What do you mean by that? If some players don't play well or make some mistakes, I speak with them and we try to improve their performance. But the referee is not my matter.
Did you speak to Jamie Vardy? What's he said about the sending off? No, nothing. Do you want to know something about Jamie? Ask Jamie, not me. He hasn't said to you whether he thought it was or wasn't? No, I think also you already watched the full, if it was or wasn't. Then why we had to say something? No. Okay, I accept what you're saying. How proud are you of the way your team fought back?
Fantastic, fantastic. This is our soul. We play every match with this, you know. Blood, heart and soul. It's magnificent. Thank you. I say thank you to my players, to the fans. We must believe every time. And this point is very, very important psychologically. Why do you say that? No, because after 2-1, to go back in the last minute is very, very important.
You think, ah, my effort, something produced. That is important. Did you show nerves today, do you think, your team? No, no, no. No, I mean in a positive way. Yeah. No, I don't know the word nervous. I know West Ham is a good team. It's a good team with good players. I said to the previous, you know, they move the ball very well. They have three good strikers. They can change everything.
And also they deliver the ball very well. But we closed very well. All the space, they were dangerous just in the free kicks and corner. And that for me is very, very important. Thank you. Thank you.
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Chapter 3: What did Claudio Ranieri say about the match performance?
Thank you. Slavin, your thoughts on an extraordinary game of football?
Yeah, I'm... We are gutted, you know, because at the end I think we've done enough to win the game. Before the last five seconds of the game, where we made one mistake, we didn't want to kick the ball, like long balls, wide sides, we lost the ball there, then that move... You want me to talk about the penalty? That's why you called me here, to be fair. One of the reasons.
The game went that way, it was hard for the referee, with the crowd. The crowd, not only here, they are always asking for... Every long ball is a handball or it's a penalty or that, so it's not easy for the referee. To be fair, I feel for him, although it's not a penalty, of course, but it was hard for him. We spoke to Andy Carroll, he said he didn't even make a challenge.
Of course, you don't have to speak to Andy about it. It wasn't a penalty, the player went down, he made a touch and went down, it's not a penalty. But all I'm saying with all this... pressure and situation, they are top of the table and you have 30-whatever-thousand people screaming on every decision, handball or penalty or both. It's hard for him.
Do you think the penalty you did get was fully deserved? Well, to be fair, on the one hand Leicester is right when they say, why a penalty? Because they are doing that. all year basically in a box outside the box on set pieces on long throwings whatever they they play that kind of football and many times they got away with that so
We showed character, we showed quality, we showed character even in the first half. They scored a goal like they scored a few of them that way from a counter-attack from our corner but then we didn't lose shape, we didn't lose composure and we were rewarded with the penalty. We put them under pressure.
We coped well in the second half with their counter-attacks with Wardy, with Okazaki, with Mahrez and then we came back and after the equaliser we didn't stop. We were searching for a second goal. We had our full backs up. I mean, Cresswell scored a goal from the position of a left-finger or whatever, so we showed determination to try to win the game.
He scored a great goal, we scored a goal, and then that happened. Is the frustration yet another draw? It is a big frustration for us, I mean, it's a good result, don't get me wrong, but we deserve to win the game, and we've done enough to win it. Slavon, appreciate your time. Thank you very much.
Emil, you went through it with them, particularly that last 20 minutes or so. How do you reflect on that point?
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Chapter 4: What were Slaven Bilic's thoughts on the match outcome?
It's a difficult one for me. I'm not sure how you see that. It's a coming together.
It's always the typical one. Let's give credit to Ojoia and his calmness and the way he struck that into the back of the net. But if that happens in midfield, everybody blows the whistle for a foul. I don't know why, as soon as you're in the box, people always try to say, do I think it's a penalty? I don't think so, because it's really a shoulder-to-shoulder. If it was in the back of him, maybe.
But maybe the pressure of blowing up for a penalty there and not there, and maybe also the fact that now everybody does respect Leicester in a way. So you get your reward and you get those type of penalties like they used to get back in the days at United, if I can say.
On that note, he finished 2-2. What a second half that was, full of incident and controversy.
Here's Bellassi. And he goes to the target and it's crept in! Yannick Bellassi completely takes Petr Cech by surprise. And the goalkeeper won't look back on that with too much fondness. Palace are level here. It's another devastating blow for Arsenal.
And that's the way it finished. Arsenal won, Crystal Palace won. The home side in total had 21 attempts at goal, six on target. Palace scoring with one of their two on target. Look at this, the home side much more of the ball for the fifth time this season, over 17%. The passing, look at the touches in the opposition area as well, yet it finishes all square.
Perhaps Petr Cech will feel he could have done better with the equaliser. He is with Greg Whelan. Well, Petr, commiserations on seeing the wind slip away at the end. Are you still wondering how it did?
Well, we had chances to score the second goal. They didn't find the back of the net and they had a few counter-attacks already in the first half. We were dealing with it very well, but at the last moment we knew that they are dangerous at the counter. They've been waiting for a counter-attack the whole game and unfortunately for us they managed to find one with the goal.
Considering the extent to which you dominated the ball throughout this game, should the game have been made safe perhaps before they equalised, do you think? Well, regardless, we should have seen the game go off, and I think this is obviously two drop points, very important.
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Chapter 5: How did Leicester adapt after Vardy's red card?
It finished 2-2 here. The gap is eight. It's over to Tottenham. We'll see you tomorrow night.