Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers is delighted to be working with Jamie Vardy.

The Premier League's leading scorer heads to Aston Villa on Sunday in inspired form, scoring in each of his last seven appearances, and with nine in total in those games to take his tally to 14 for the season, and 23 overall following Rodgers' arrival in February.

"The huge credit is to him," insisted Rodgers. "He's an incredible talent who has all the attributes that big teams look for in their profile of a striker - fast and hard working. Through all my days, that's the profile of player I like, too.

"Coming into here, I knew he was one of the best in Europe, and it was a case of giving him the confidence to show that.

"Sometimes players can get into their early 30s and be written off. But in seeing his energy and speed, it was a case of him fitting into how we wanted to work, which I felt would be fairly easy.

"And he wants to work, to run in behind, to press, so with how I like teams to play, he was a natural.

"So the huge praise goes to him, to take on board what we wanted, and then to have that consistency and hunger, and that's proven very impressive."