Rodgers not concerned by gap

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers insisted his side are ignoring the growing gap to Liverpool after battling Norwich held them to a draw to end their winning run.

Tim Krul’s own goal cancelled out Teemu Pukki’s ninth of the season to leave second-placed Leicester 10 points adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool.

The Foxes were denied a ninth straight top-flight win by the excellent Canaries, with

Jamie Vardy also drawing a blank, halting his run of scoring in eight consecutive games.

Liverpool’s earlier 2-0 win over Watford maintained their form, but Rodgers admitted the gap to his former side is not his focus.

He said: “It’s not something we’ve spoken about – everyone else has.

“These players have been brilliant, it says everything we have drawn a game and everyone is disappointed.

“We weren’t quite at our level, but we managed to get back and get a point. We’ll press the rest button and get ready for a (League Cup) quarter-final on Wednesday (at Everton).

“It was probably the right result; we didn’t start so well and our passing was slow.

“Norwich played well in the opening period. We needed to change it – it wasn’t quite working for us.

“We made the change (Demarai Gray for Kelechi Iheanacho), and we were better.

“In the second half we were much better.”

Pukki opened the scoring after 26 minutes when he found the corner from Emi Buendia’s defence-splitting pass.

But Krul turned the ball into