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The interviewer continued to question the tactics of the Frenchman, insinuating that it would be a risk to play openly against the Premier League leaders.

But once the dust has settled and Arsenal are hopefully celebrating a vital three points against the current league leaders Leicester City, all eyes will turn north to the Etihad Stadium where another key match will be played.

With the obvious motivation of winning to secure the title against their rivals, it could play right into the hands of the league leaders on this occasion.

Arsene Wenger spoke in the week about the big gap between Arsenal and the current Premier League leaders might just allow the Gunners to play with some of the old fluency and verve that saw us topping the table at the turn of the year and even though the Gunners were knocked out of the Champions League in midweek, there were enough positives from our performance against Barcelona to give us some belief back.

With the Blues drawing with Burnley last weekend and playing against Tottenham Hotspur in today's Capital One Cup final, City had a real chance to pile some pressure on the current leaders, who can now make it an eight point lead if they win their next league game.

It is not exactly like Arsene Wenger to give his rival managers any sort of help in working out how Arsenal are planning to play ahead of a match, especially a match as important as the one against the Premier League leaders Leicester City on Sunday is.

Tonights encounter with Reading Women, will be the first opportunity for Yeovil to show another solid performance, with their last league game against Chelsea, which saw the Glovers hold out the league leaders until over 60 minutes played.

City played for a half with ten men following the dismissal of Fabian Delph for a terrible challenge and Will Grigg scored a late winner for Wigan as the Latics notched up another FA Cup success against league leaders City

His approach is certainly different to that of the main goal creators in the team, Cesc Fabregas and Oscar, and that will be important as the league leaders come up against more and more teams who play with 10 men behind the ball.

United has played well against league leaders Burnley and Middlesbrough this season but fallen off against the lesser sides.

Ipswich could use the boost of three points against the league leaders in this one to get their challenge for a play off place going again.

League leader Michael van Gerwen will come up against Simon Whitlock, with the Australian sitting in fourth place on ten points as he targets a third Play - Off campaign following a strong first half of the season.

In all, he played 50 times for us during that season and memorably scored three consecutive braces against Southampton, Watford and Chelsea around the turn of the year - the latter coming in the form of two near - identical headers as we vanquished the league leaders at White Hart Lane.

After a goalless draw against Chelsea on Sunday, Arsenal remain 10 points adrift the league leaders with 5 games to left to play.

The league leaders look to have the friendliest run - in of their title rivals over the next few weeks, with fixtures against clubs that would normally be labelled «six - pointers» were it not for the maddening reality that the Foxes are playing it so safely in avoiding relegation that they're in danger of actually winning the league.

Tevez has been ostracized by City boss Roberto Mancini since he refused to warm - up during a Champions League group match against Bayern Munich, and has not played for the league leaders since 21 September,League group match against Bayern Munich, and has not played for the league leaders since 21 September,league leaders since 21 September, 2011.

Real Madrid might go into the game with 7 points behind league leaders Barcelona who play against Levante in the early kickoff on Sunday at around 12:00 and that can put some added pressure for Real Madrid to get all three points at any cost.

Last Result: Although they may not have deserved it, Blackburn were beaten 2 - 1 last weekend by league leaders Chelsea in a gripping encounter which had seen Rovers take the lead, certainly not against the run of play mind, through the sparingly used Benjani before Chelsea stormed back to clinch all three points with goals from Nicolas Anelka and Branislav Ivanovic, the latter coming six minutes from time.

Real Madrid's match against Celta Vigo was postponed due to Balaidos being damaged by a storm, meaning the Catalan side have now played two games more than the current league leaders.

The Scot will come up against the world's top two ranked players in Liverpool, as he firstly takes on current Premier League leader Van Gerwen before returning to the stage to play two - time World Champion Anderson.

In the game against the league leaders, Rashford played as lead striker as Zlatan Ibrahimovic was out.

In short, they act like publishers — as well they should, because to play in this league requires measuring yourself against the leaders and taking them on.