Shakespeare warns Leicester to beware sting in tale
LEICESTER, United Kingdom: Craig Shakespeare refused to declare Leicester’s survival battle won despite leading his team into the top half of the Premier League table.
Shakespeare’s team moved to 10th place after a 2- 0 victory against Sunderland on Tuesday that left beleaguered Black Cats boss David Moyes looking doomed to relegation.
T he t r iumph ex t ende d Shakespeare’s winning run at the start of his Premier League management career to five games and took the Foxes to nine points above the bottom three.
But Shakespeare, who replaced the sacked Claudio Ranieri, refused to accept the job of staving off relegation is complete.
“No, I am still not going to say that because I think we are never quite sure if other teams are capable of going on good runs,” he said.
Shakespeare admitted that his start to life at the helm had exceeded his own expectations, with his Midas touch extending to inspirational substitutions against Sunderland.
He made a double change, bringing on Marc Albrighton and Islam Slimani, and seven minutes later the pair combined for the opening goal before Albrighton teed up Jamie Vardy for the second.
“I am real ly pleased with the impact of the substitutions because that is what you make them for.”
Meanwhile, Moyes is enduring a far more torrid time than Shakespeare, with poor results on the pitch combined with controversy off it.
Hours before kick- of f at Leicester, his club were forced to back him publicly over his threats to ‘slap’ a female reporter who recently quizzed him about his job security.
But Moyes conceded his rock bottom side, now eight points from safety, face an almost impossible task to save themselves from relegation after back- to- back losses at Watford and Leicester. — AFP