Leicester chase one more win to avoid drop

The renewed feel-good factor at Leicester City is seeping away and the Premier League champions still have work to do ahead of Saturday’s trip to West Bromwich Albion.

Craig Shakespeare, who took over as manager following titlewinning boss Claudio Ranieri’s sacking in February, has lost just three of his 11 games in charge.

Yet the third of those defeats, at Arsenal on Wednesday, left the Foxes still with just 37 points and glancing over their shoulders at potential relegation problems

with five games remaining.

One more victory should allay any lingering fears, but until the 40-point barrier is passed, Shakespeare knows his own long-term future is unlikely to be resolved by Leicester’s Thai owners.

“When they first appointed me

I said if they want to (talk) that is fine,” he said. “I am quite comfortable, but my remit was to the end of the season.

“I said before we need some more points on the board and we are disappointed not to get them, but we move on now to Saturday.”

Shakespeare will be keen to restore Wes Morgan to the heart of his defence for the trip to Albion, where the Leicester manager played as a midfielder and cut his teeth in coaching.

Morgan returned from a back injury for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final defeat to Atletico Madrid, but the centre-back then suffered a hamstring problem that forced him to miss the 1-0 midweek loss at the Emirates Stadium.