Ronald Koeman believes Leicester can win the title – and if they did it would be “fantastic” for the Premier League.

Claudio Ranieri’s side are five points clear at the top with 13 games left to play, and face one of their nearest challengers in the shape of Arsenal on Sunday.

Having dispatched Manchester City in clinical fashion recently, it is a game unlikely to daunt the Foxes.

Koeman is very much enjoying Leicester’s high flying form, and thinks they can see it through until the very end.

He said: “I think they can continue like this, because they are still playing with an unbelievable spirit and if I was Leicester, still out of a lot of freshness in the players.

“They have a strong bench, they have good players and they have strikers who can score the goals.

“If you are so long now doing this season on the top of the league and if you beat Man City in the way they beat Man City then everybody can expect Leicester until the end of the season to be fighting for the title.”

Leicester certainly have a distinct advantage in that they have no other competitions to worry about, whereas City, for example, continue to fight on four fronts.

Though Koeman does believe that Leicester will face an unfamiliar type of pressure towards the end of the campaign if they are still in the hunt, he doesn’t expect that to be a factor for some time yet.

“Maybe in the end of the season if they are very close to win something very big, the title, then maybe they will become a little bit more nervous than at the moment,” reflected Koeman, who has won a total of eight league titles as a player and three as a manager.

“Still at the moment the pressure is for the big teams, the pressure is for Arsenal.

“They can play out of that pressure and it’s out of those big ones.

“It will be fantastic for the Premier League if Leicester can win the title.”