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Brendan Rodgers hailed Jamie Vardy as “world class” when the Leicester forward came off the bench to chase Arsenal once again.
The forward scored the winner at Emirates to move the Foxes to a Premier League pinnacle point, though Leicester took advantage of their luck after the Gunners saw Alexandre Lacazette’s header dubiously ruled out, much to manager Mikel Arteta’s chagrin.
Arsenal, who tried to sign Vardy in 2016, will be sick of seeing the 33-year-old, who has now scored 11 times in 12 games against Londoners.
“In every game he seems like he’s scoring, he’s disappointed that he hasn’t scored another,” Rodgers said.
“He is a world-class forward, an incredible talent.”
Vardy missed the previous two Leicester games before last night’s win with a calf problem.
Rodgers insisted he didn’t want to take any chances with his talisman attacker and Vardy agreed, saying: ‘Coach and I spoke yesterday and that was always the plan because I’m coming back from a little trouble.
‘You don’t want to be dumped directly, it’s about feeling the way back. It was probably going to be the last 20 minutes or half an hour and that’s what has happened.
Fortunately I went in and made an impact. ‘
But Leicester was in debt with a controversial decision to nullify Lacazette’s goal in the first half, which would have put the Gunners 1-0 up.
It is understood that the goal was disallowed by a Granit Xhaka foul on Foxes goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel in the run-up to goal.
But Arteta said: ‘They have not given us an explanation why. It’s tough because Granit is behind Schmeichel, she’s not in front of him and the ball is away from him.
“We can have our opinion, but we have specialists, the referees, to make the decisions.
“They made a call that it wasn’t allowed, but it obviously had a massive impact on the game because there were two teams where the margins were minimal.”
Equally, however, Rodgers pointed to another disconcerting decision by Craig Pawson not to hand Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin a second yellow card after a headlong lunge on James Justin.
“It was interesting, it’s a foul, so you would have to ask the referee,” added Rodgers.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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