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Leicester City 'under no pressure' insists keeper Kasper Schmeichel

Kasper Schmeichel of Leicester City celebrates
Image: Kasper Schmeichel of Leicester City celebrates

Kasper Schmeichel says no one at Leicester is getting carried away despite needing just 12 points from their final six matches to secure the Premier League title.

The Foxes, who are unbeaten in their last six games, are closing in on the first top-flight championship of their 132-year history.

Schmeichel and his team-mates know how to deal with pressure, having pulled off a miraculous relegation escape last season, and the Denmark international says they are taking it game by game.

"A lot of those players are still here from that period and we know what it's like," said the goalkeeper. "It's a different level this time, but it's the same type of thing. You've got to take it one game at a time.

Leicester City players celebrate against Southampton
Image: Leicester City players celebrate against Southampton

"If we start looking ahead after Sunderland on Sunday then we're not going to put our full focus on Sunderland, which is what we need to do because that's a tough, tough game.

"It's about the whole mentality of taking each game as it comes. We are under no pressure at all and it's great. The pressure was last season when your back is against the wall and you're fighting for you lives.

"A relegation means everything to a club, to a city, to a whole community, as people could lose their jobs. That would have been catastrophic. That was real pressure. This is just great. We're enjoying this."

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Leicester can pile the pressure on title challengers Tottenham this Sunday by going 10 points clear when they face off against Sunderland, live on Sky.

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