Manuel Pellegrini hopes City will kick on from their impressive Boxing Day triumph with another three points at table-topping Leicester. The Foxes stunned the footballing world by reaching the Premier League summit for Christmas Day - but the Chilean insists the achievement is no fluke. Although Claudio Ranieri's men slipped to defeat at Liverpool on Saturday, the City boss dismissed the suggestion the Midlands outfit will fall away from the top and has urged his side to produce the same level of performance which swept Sunderland aside so expertly. Pellegrini told press: "Leicester are top of the table because they deserve to be. They have very important players in a very good moment with high performance. "They beat Chelsea and drew against United - we must consider they will not collapse because they lost. 工程師:"狐狸城值得稱為榜首，他們的重要球員都處於好狀態，他們擊敗了車車跟悶平 阿鬼，我們得要認為他們並不會忽然就失去狀態。" "We knew it was not easy for them to beat Liverpool away so we were confident that we could reduce the gap at the top if we beat Sunderland. "Leicester couldn't win and now we have an important game to finish the first round of fixtures." Though the encounter has been deemed a crucial one in the title race, the boss disagreed. 工程師:"我們都知道客場戰利鳥本就不容易了，所以我們當時很有信心，如果我們擊敗黑貓 我們的差距就會縮小，狐狸城果然沒贏，現在我們有場很重要的比賽在這2015的最後一場。" "We have to play for 63 more points," he continued. "In December, you never win the title. "It's important to try and repeat Saturday's performance in as many games as we can in the second round. "As a team, we have options to fight for the title to the end." "但這並不是天王山之戰，我們還有63分可以拿，你永遠不可能在12月就拿下冠軍，所以 現在最重要的是在剩下的這些比賽踢出很多次像禮拜六那樣的比賽，身為一支球隊，我們 還有機會去爭取冠軍。" With Leicester's top scorers Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez highlighted as the Foxes dangermen, Pellegrini was asked whether he would make special preparations to halt the pair. Vardy may miss the clash through illness but the Chilean insisted - even if he should play - it would be naive to focus solely on specific players. He declared: "Both of them are performing very well but I don't think they can do it if the whole team are not having a good performance. "They are important players but we must think about a lot of different things - not just two players. We must think about Leicester City. "We hope we can beat them but it will be a tough game." 工程師:" Jamie Vardy跟Riyad Mahrez都是很好的選手，但我不認為如果其他隊友狀態不是 這麼好，他們還能這麼高光。他們對狐狸城來說是很重要的選手，但我們得要去思考很多不 同面的事，不只是這兩個球員，我們要面對的是狐狸城這支隊伍。希望我們能擊敗他們。" When quizzed on team news, such as whether Sergio Aguero would return and how long Vincent Kompany would be absent for, he responded: "We will see. "It is important how the players recover. We will try to put the best players in this moment." 談KUN跟孔隊 "我想關鍵在於他們復原的進度，我們會試著擺出最好陣容。" ----------------- -- 2012 EPL CHAMPION 2014 Captal One AND EPL CHAMPION | \/ | / \ | \| | o O O / __| |_ _| |_ _|\ \ / / | |\/| | | - | | .` | o | (__ | | | | \ V / |_|__|_| |_|_| |_|\_| TS__[O] \___| |___| _|_|_ _|_|_ _|"""""||"""""||"""""| {======||"""""||"""""||"""""|| """ | "`-0-0-'"`-0-0-'"`-0-0-'./o--000'"`-0-0-'"`-0-0-'"`-0-0-'"`-0-0-' --

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