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Leicester City confident of winning their final two games, says boss Nigel Pearson

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Nigel Pearson said his Leicester City side can take a lot of confidence after twice coming from behind to claim a draw at fellow play-off hopefuls Crystal Palace.

Strikes from Andy King and Chris Wood gave City a share of the spoils at Selhurst Park on Saturday.

Pearson said he was pleased with his side's display, although the point saw them drop out of the Championship play-off places.

However, he said there was every reason to be optimistic that they could beat both Watford and Nottingham Forest in their final two games to make it into the play-offs.

"I thought we were the better side and played pretty well," he said

"We twice had to come from a goal behind. The players showed a lot of quality on what was a difficult pitch, and I thought we were the better side.

"I have said to the players we have two games left now and we have to make sure we win them both.

"If we show the positive qualities we showed (against Palace), then we have a great chance.

"At any other time, we would be talking about this as being a really good point."

Pearson added: "It is not games like this that has put us in this situation, it is the performances against Derby and Barnsley.

"What we have to do is focus on what we can influence – and that is the last two games.

"We have to take the positives from (the Palace result) and move forward, because we have a really good chance."

City had fallen behind to Danny Gabbidon's first-half header, and then Stephen Dobbie struck from the edge of the box to put the Eagles back in front in the second half.

"Clearly, their biggest threat was going to be from set-plays as they had a big side," said Pearson.

"Unfortunately, we conceded one from a set-play, but we were very unlucky with the second one in terms of ricochets.

"I thought we played well. It was just slightly unfortunate to concede the two goals, and we created a number of good situations as well. There are a lot of positives."

Leicester City confident of winning their final two games, says boss Nigel Pearson


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