Leicester City stunned Swansea City 2-1 at Liberty stadium on Saturday.

Michael Appleton was in caretaker command after Shakespeare's midweek sacking and Leicester fully merited the three points handed to them by Federico Fernandez's first-half own goal and Shinji Okazaki's fifth of the season just after the interval.

Alfie Mawson reduced the deficit from a 56th-minute corner but Swansea were poor for most of the contest and were indebted to their goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski for keeping them in the contest.

He said: "One game doesn't make you a Premier League manager and I'm very aware of that.

"But I'm also aware that I'd like to think as an assistant I'm more than capable of doing that role.

"I've done it twice now - I had 15 months at West Brom and here at Leicester - and I'd love an opportunity to continue to do that.

"I signed a three-year deal in the summer to be the assistant manager.

"I walked away from an environment at Oxford in League One which was quite stable, and I thought I was doing the same thing at Leicester.

"Nothing's changed from my point of view, I would love to honour the contract I signed in the summer but those things are out of my control."