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Carragher: Questions will come for league-leading Leicester

Leicester City will now start to be questioned in their race for the Premier League title according to Jamie Carragher.

The Foxes were beaten 2-1 by Arsenal on Sunday to see their five-point lead at the top of the table cut to just two.

Leicester were unlucky to lose at the Emirates Stadium as the Gunners came from behind following Jamie Vardy's 45th-minute penalty before goals from Theo Walcott (70') and Danny Welbeck (90+5') saw them miss out on the points.

Despite the unfortunate nature of the defeat, Carragher feels that Claudio Ranieri's Foxes will have all the questions thrown at them as they continue to fight for an unlikely premiership in what has been a fairytale season so far.

Carragher said on Sky Sports: "It's massive [for Arsenal]. The points, obviously, and psychologically, but now the questions will be thrown at Leicester: how will they be able cope with people now questioning them? Can they come back from that?

"We've used the fact that they don't have any midweek games as a bonus for them, a plus, an advantage. It could work the other way now, where they have so long to think, especially the way the lost. Dwelling on that, if they'd have got another three points, how far ahead they would have been.

"That's where the questions come, now they've had a setback, how are they going to react? But Thierry is spot on, a crazy decision late in the game when they looked like they'd weathered the storm and it's cost them."

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