Leicester City's sacking of Claudio Ranieri was a "bad" decision but it has been vindicated by their results, says West Ham boss Slaven Bilic.

The Premier League champions have not lost a game since Ranieri was dismissed in February and have reached the Champions League quarter-finals.

"No one can say it was the wrong decision, the three results have been brilliant," Bilic said.

"Still for me it was a bad decision, Claudio did very decently with them. But it's the nature of the job, you are the first one to pay the price."

"I said after they changed manager what I thought about it and still I don't understand it," Bilic added.

"But if you talk about results and performances, they got what they wanted."