Very rarely this season has an opposition manager praised his own goalkeeper after facing Leicester City. In some ways, it tells the story of their campaign.

There have been many matches this term where City have not threatened enough and so not tested the gloves of the opposition number one. There’s also been quite a few games where they’ve scored stunning strikes, leaving the goalkeeper helpless.

In fact, Opta’s data suggests City’s finishing has been so good that they’ve scored 12 more goals than would be expected of the shots they’ve taken. Only Wrexham and Hull have overachieved more.

So it was unusual when Watford boss Ed Still lauded his goalkeeper Egil Selvik as “brilliant” in his post-match press conference, saying the Norwegian “won us a point”.

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