‘We never panicked, we trusted Vardy’
SIX WEEKS ago, Leicester were in the relegation zone, Jamie Vardy could not buy a goal and the club were facing the indignity of going down as champions. Suddenly everything in the garden is rosy again and it is partly on the back of Vardy finding his touch. He has scored six goals in his past seven matches – more than he had managed all season. Five league wins in a row have rocketed Leicester up the table and they are now 11th.
Leicester travel to Everton tomorrow hoping for another win before Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final with Atletico Madrid.
Defender Danny Simpson said: “Strikers go through it. I don’t know why some people panic because he is not going to score every game. He is still the same player, it had just not been happening.
“But in training nothing changes with him. He is always the same. His attitude and his confidence never differ. He still believes in himself.”
Skipper Wes Morgan looks set to miss the game in Madrid. He is definitely out tomorrow after failing to recover from a back problem and manager Craig Shakespeare admitted that he is losing his race to be fit.
Everton manager Ronald Koeman has told England to forget about picking midfield star Tom Davies this summer, insisting he needs time off.
Davies, 18, has made eight appearances for England Under-19s, who will be in the European Championship in Georgia in July, and is also on the radar of Under-21 boss Aidy Boothroyd, whose team compete in the Under-21 Championship in Poland in June.
But Koeman said: “Tom needs a summer of rest and Steve Walsh [Everton’s director of football] has spoken to the people at the FA about this. He will get three or four weeks off in the summer.
“He will also not play in the Under-19s tournament and maybe in future it will be the Under-21s or the national team for him.”