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By Alan Shearer
MOTD2 pundit
If I was Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers I believing what a fantastic opportunity I have got this season and would be rubbing my hands.
While Liverpool and Manchester City are miles ahead of everyone else on top of the desk, the other teams who are normally in the chasing pack have all got major problems.
The Foxes will be the’best of the rest’ at the moment in position, and they ought to be seriously thinking they’re able to stay there.
From what we have seen up to now the top six and rodgers targeted, his negative not just have a brilliant probability of making itthe best four is a real potential for them also.
Since their recent performances have shown there is absolutely nothing to dread, they definitely shouldn’t be scared of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham.
Leicester played poorly a week, when they lost to United. They revealed their attributes if they defeat Tottenham on Saturday and deserved the three points.
Mauricio Pochettino’s Spurs staff are having a challenging time away from home, especially right now – they have not managed a league success.
Tottenham have led by a target at half-time inside their previous three away games – against Arsenal, Olympiakos and the Foxes – but failed to win some of them, which tells you they have a softness about them they do not seem able to put right.
They had a fantastic season last time out, reaching the Champions League final and making the top four of their Premier League for a fourth successive year under Pochettino – but they still appear a long way from reaching another level and lifting a serious title challenge.
Arsenal showed good character to return from 2-1 down to beat Aston Villa with 10 guys on Sunday but that win doesn’t disguise the truth that they’ve got enormous problems defensively.
They are all around the place, although it isn’t simply their own back-line to blame, because their midfield does not have enough players who seem able to monitor runners.
Chelsea, who have not kept a clean sheet in eight matches this season, are at a similar boat.
They showed that they will score goals and carry a risk however, unfortunately for manager Frank Lampard they always look like conceding them.
Therefore you will get a good deal of inconsistency A great deal of the players are young and innocent – and that is costing these aims.
They’ll add some good performances – such as they did by their triumph over Wolves and Liverpool on Sunday in their defeat weekend, but they will not always get the appropriate results due to their inexperience.
At least Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs put on the weekend – Manchester United did not even manage a lot of the in their dismal defeat at West Ham.
When he confronted the media afterwards old Trafford boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was optimistic, but he must be aware of exactly how bad his group were.
I know why he defended thembecause he has any young players and he doesn’t want to ruin their faith by criticising them but I believe he will soon be saying things independently.
They had been bad all lacking any ingenuity, urgency or spark in addition to fight attack. It was simply unacceptable.
It’s now clear that a massive gamble was taken by United if they asked players that are untried or unproven goalscorers to replace him and sold striker Romelu Lukaku.
Marcus Rashford has talent, but he has lots of improving to do. Mason Greenwood has enormous potential, but it is a big ask for him to direct United’s attack at the age of 17.
Greenwood ill and with Anthony Martial hurt, they did not have a recognized to substitute Rashford once he limped off after an hour.
I’ve got some sympathy for Rashford, that didn’t score in open play to the sixth successive match this season, since it wouldn’t give me great hope of getting 25 or 30 targets if I had been playing in that team – but he has got to help himself also.
We still don’t understand if the 21-year-old is going to wind up as as a centre-forward, but when he is going to be a top-class striker with a killer instinct then his motion in the box needs to improve dramatically, and he wants to learn to score the horrible aims as well.
United’s squad is lacking from midfield as well as up front, something that was highlighted by their bench on Sunday if they sent to Jesse Lingard, Fred and Angel Gomes to attempt to save some point.
But Solskjaer has to locate some creativity from somewhere, so it’s vital that he gets more out of Paul Pogba if the France midfielder contributes to fitness.
Teams around the rest are sitting and hitting, but they also need to discover a way to break down the sides who defend themselves.
We saw them struggle to do when they lost at home to Crystal Palace in August, and it had been exactly the same contrary to the Hammers, that had been well organised and didn’t give much space away.
It’s fine if playing the rest is United’s program A, but what are?
We haven’t seen anything to indicate that Solskjaer has found a response yet, however, the 1 consolation for him is that a number of the other clubs are struggling.
Alan Shearer spoke to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
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