Jamie Vardy says he is simply “enjoying the ride” and is not even thinking about the leaders Leicester City winning the Premier League.
The Foxes are top of the table by five points and visit Arsenal on Sunday having beaten Manchester City 3-1 on Saturday.
Arsenal are third, level on points with Tottenham, but despite Leicester’s lead, the 18-goal striker Vardy believes they have to stay calm and ignore the hype.
“We’re just enjoying it aren’t we? We’re just enjoying the ride,” the England striker said. “If you start thinking about it too much it’s going to affect you, it’s as simple as that. We’ll just continue to do exactly the same thing we’ve done all season.”
He said of Arsenal: “They’re up there, we’re up there, City are, Tottenham, Manchester United might be 10 points adrift but the way this season’s going those 10 points can be picked up quickly.
“We’ll just take every game as it comes, knuckle down and hopefully keep picking points up.”
Claudio Ranieri’s side have lost just twice in the league all season, once to Arsenal when they went down 5-2 in September and Vardy knows the challenge they face this weekend.
He said: “No doubt it will be tough, we know the players they’ve got are world class but although we lost 5-2 when we played them last time we did show that we can hurt them.
“I think it’ll be a matter of us tightening up a bit defensively which, as we’ve seen, we’ve kept a lot of clean sheets recently. It’s going to be a good, entertaining game.”
Meanwhile, Arsenal have moved to snap up Leicester’s head of technical scouting Ben Wrigglesworth who worked under head of recruitment Steve Walsh at the Foxes. An account claiming to be from Wrigglesworth on social media confirmed the move.
“After three-and-a-half unbelievable seasons, working with amazing people, I am now starting a new chapter,” he wrote.
“It was a very difficult decision, leaving Leicester, but I had to take an opportunity that doesn’t come round often. I only wish the best for Leicester in the future.”