Intro:

Manchester City, Manuel Pellegrini, Leicester, Nigel Pearson, Premier League

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager:

"Well I think that always when you don't have the result that you need (in the last match, after 2-1 defeat against Liverpool in the Premier League), the next game is very difficult. And that's why today, the it was most important was to win the three points. After that I think that we did a normal game. We dominate the game. We have good possession of the ball. Maybe Leicester is a team that is at the bottom of the table but if you see the last three results that they had, they draw against Liverpool, against Everton and they were very unlucky not to draw against Arsenal so it was important for our team to keep a clean sheet and to try and dominate from the beginning. Maybe we scored too late the second goal that can give our team to play more calm but I think it was a normal game."

SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager (on the title race):

"We're not thinking about Chelsea. We must think about our team, we must try to win our games. We can do nothing about what Chelsea will do. For me it is very important to try and improve our performance to try to win our games and we'll see at the end of the season if Chelsea drop points or if they don't but we're not thinking about that."

SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Pearson, Leicester City manager (on his players' performance):

"They gave everything they had tonight. Very disciplined, very organised. I think we created a very frustrating first half situation for City but of course to concede right on the stroke of half time gives them an advantage in which we need to be slightly more offensive in the second half but credit to our players I thought we still carried a threat throughout the game."