Leicester marches towards EPL title — 11th April 2016 .As Spurs hit Man United hard

 LEICESTER City’s re­markable surge towards the title shows no signs of slow­ing up after battling to a 2-0 victory over relegation-threatened Sunderland at the Stadium of Light yesterday.

Jamie Vardy’s second-half brace – the striker’s first league goals since Febru­ary 14, seven matches ago – proved to be the difference between the two teams.

Claudio Ranieri’s men have now won their past five league games without conceding, picking up their 14th clean sheet of the cam­paign yesterday. They have lost just three of their 33 league games so far.

With five games left, Claudio Ranieri’s unfash­ionable side need a maxi­mum of nine more points – or three wins to become English champions for the first time.

Their supporters stayed inside the ground well af­ter the final whistle chant­ing “we’re gonna win the league” and it now seems only an astonishing collapse will stop them from lifting the trophy.

Sunderland remain deep in trouble in the relegation zone, though, four points from Norwich City and safety, albeit with a match in hand on the Canaries.

Meanwhile, Tottenham kept her Premier League tittle hopes alive with an emphatic victory over Man­chester United at home.

Spurs went into this game 10 points adrift and, had they lost, the title race would have been as good as over. Instead, it lives again. There may be a significant margin at the top, but there is hope. Increasingly, for United, hope is fading.

Dele Alli made the breakthrough by getting be­hind United’s defense and Tottenham never looked back from there .

Within four minutes, Tottenham were home and hosed. Erik Lamela swung in a cross from the left which Toby Alderweireld met with a fine header, ris­ing higher than the nearby Michael Carrick and Mar­cos Rojo – indeed higher than anyone in the area.


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