Veteran striker Jamie Vardy is looking forward to a return to playing Premier League football after signing a new one-year contract at Leicester.
Leicester City can extend the gap to third to 13 points with a win over Birmingham City in the Championship on Monday night.
Leicester manager Enzo Maresca says it will be impossible to keep all of his top players happy this season as he aims to take the club back to the Premier League at the first time of asking.
Jamie Vardy has scored 170 goals in 427 appearances for Leicester City.
Leicester's manager, Dean Smith, is optimistic that striker Jamie Vardy's recent resurgence will be instrumental in securing his team's Premier League survival.
Leicester interim coach Dean Smith believed the cluttered fixture schedule has put added pressure on their relegation survival hopes.
While Leicester City manager Dean Smith concedes it has not been Jamie Vardy's most successful season in front of goal, he is adamant the striker is "as important as they come" to the club.
Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe guided the Magpies into the League Cup semi-finals and admitted their 47-year wait for a crack at the trophy had been too long coming.
Kelechi Iheanacho extended his fine FA Cup record by firing Leicester into the fourth round with the second-half winner in a 1-0 victory at League Two strugglers Gillingham.
Clinical Leicester ran riot to climb out of the drop zone and plunge Wolves into turmoil as Molineux threatened to turn toxic.
