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Shinji Okazaki the Latest Unlikely Hero as Leicester City Keep Up Title Push

Shinji Okazaki scored with a brilliant bicycle kick as Leicester City continued their march toward the Premier League title on Monday night with a 1-0 victory at home to Newcastle United.

Almost none of that sentence would have made sense as recently as last August, but with just eight games left in this most unpredictable of seasons, that's exactly what we've come to expect.

Five points clear once again and closer than ever to the title, Leicester continue to make even the biggest doubters believe. With a hero-of-the-day approach and an admirable ability to grind out results, the Foxes are turning the unexpected into the ordinary in their improbable title run.