Tuesday 1 March 2016 07:18, UK
Claudio Ranieri has told his Leicester players they must learn to deal with the pressure which comes with being league leaders.
The Foxes lead the Premier League by two points ahead of Tuesday's visit of West Brom to the King Power Stadium, having lost just three league games this season.
They beat Norwich 1-0 on Saturday to stay top and, while Ranieri played down his side's chances of winning the league, saying Tottenham and Arsenal are the title favourites, the Italian insisted Leicester need to show they can cope with the added attention they are receiving.
He said: "I don't ban [any title talk]. They must grow up with the pressure, that is good, but for us it's not important to win the title. It's important to improve our performance match after match.
"We don't think about it, we are thinking about what we are doing well and badly. We try to improve what was bad from the last match."
Leicester relied on a late Leonardo Ulloa goal to beat Norwich after being frustrated by the battling Canaries at the weekend and Ranieri, who is without hamstring injury victim N'Golo Kante for the next two games, expects mid-table West Brom to pose similar problems.
He said: "When you play against teams like Norwich, and West Bromwich, we have to be patient and find the solution. The first match against West Brom [a 3-2 win in October] was tough. They scored first, and we slowly got better. I am waiting for the same this time.
"We have to continue to play our football, be intelligent, and take the right moment.
"It's important to concentrate. They are very good on the counter-attack with [Salomon] Rondon, [Stephane] Sessegnon and [Saido] Berahino, and they are also very dangerous on the corner. They've scored eight or nine goals from set-plays.
"If we take a clean sheet we can do something. They have a lot of players who impress me. Did you see Norwich? They started the match with the long ball and said 'come on then'. We have to patient and find the right solution."
