Marc Albrighton’s Top Five Premier League Moments

The 28-year-old has etched his name into Leicester City folklore since joining the Club in the summer of 2014, first helping the Foxes to stay up before going on to lift the title.

There are also two entries from Albrighton's spell at Aston Villa, where he emerged from the Midlands side's academy to play over 100 times for his boyhood club.

Aston Villa 2 Manchester United 2
Saturday 13 November, 2010
Young (pen) 72, Albrighton 76 / Macheda 81, Vidic 85

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"My friend had said my mum was crying in the stand so when you can make your mum cry at a football match, by doing the right things, it’s obviously special." That's how Albrighton described scoring against Manchester United in a 2-2 draw at Villa Park in 2010.

We played Manchester United at Villa Park and we had a really young team out. We had a lot of injuries, playing against Sir Alex Ferguson’s team at the time, I think [Paul] Scholes played and some other top-class players. We looked at the team sheets before and knew it was going to be a tough ask. We ended up going 2-0 up and I scored the second, which was my first goal in front of the Holte end, which was my dream as a boy. We ended up going on to draw the game 2-2 which was disappointing, I think we conceded in the last minute. So it was a disappointment but it’s one I’ll never forget scoring and being on the same pitch as some of them stars. I’ve got a lot of family and friends that are Villa fans and they were all there on that day. My friend had said my mum was crying in the stand so when you can make your mum cry at a football match, by doing the right things, it’s obviously special.

Aston Villa 1 Arsenal 2
Saturday 21 December, 2011
Albrighton 54 / Van Persie (pen) 17, Benayoun 87

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As the scorer of the 20,000th Premier League goal, in a 2-1 defeat by Arsenal in December 2011, Albrighton's name will be in the history books forever.

The next one, again at Villa park, we played Arsenal in a night game. Villa Park under the lights was a special occasion. I remember being 1-0 down at half time and we came out in the second half and had a real go. Early on I think the ball dropped to Per Mertesacker and I just nipped in front of him to go one-on-one with Wojciech Szczęsny and just put it through his legs to score a goal, which I thought was just an equaliser at the time. It wasn’t until after that game that somebody walked in and told me it was the 20,000th Premier League goal that I scored and I’d won £20,000 to give to a named charity, so it was obviously special for me to score that and donate the money to a good cause.

Sunderland 0 Leicester City 0
Saturday 16 May, 2015

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Albrighton played a significant role in securing City's Great Escape of 2015.

The year we stayed up was a difficult year for me. I hadn’t played much in the earlier parts of the season but the last nine games I came in and I think I showed the Leicester fans what I’m capable of. I feel from then on I’ve gone from strength to strength. Those last nine games were massive and the one that stands out was the one where we stayed up and that was Sunderland away. I think a 0-0 draw secured it so it wasn’t the most exciting game but for what it meant and the celebrations afterwards were incredible and to be a part of that and to have played my part was huge for me.

Tottenham Hotspur 0 Leicester City 1
Wednesday 13 January, 2016
Huth 83

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Everyone in blue, including Albrighton, had to be at their very best to sink Spurs in January 2016.

Tottenham away, White Hart Lane. We took a bit of a battering for the most part but one corner, one Robert Huth header, at the back post, a great header across the goal into the far top corner snook us a 1-0 win. With them hot on our tails towards the end of that season, it was proving crucial. It summed our game up in a nutshell, Kasper [Schmeichel] had a busy afternoon. The woodwork was hit a few times and we rode our luck a few times but we went up the other end, scored a great goal and came away with all three points. It was a defining moment for us collectively, it brought us all closer together knowing how hard we’d worked for each other for those 90 minutes.

Manchester City 1 Leicester City 3
Saturday 6 February, 2016
Agüero 87 / Huth 3, 60, Mahrez 48

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Many of City's players say this victory was the moment they realised history was within their grasp.

The next game was the one where we thought “this could be on” and that was the most memorable game that I’ve played in, Manchester City away. I think we went into that and a lot of questions were being asked. This is their toughest test, can they do it? Will they get rolled over? If we beat Man City then that’s them almost out of the title race. We started off great again, I think Huthy got an early goal within six minutes. We grew into the game with confidence and at one point we were 3-0 up. It was surreal to be thinking we were on our way to achieve something special if we could just see it through. We walked off the pitch at the end and we got a standing ovation from not just our fans but from the Man City fans as well. I remember walking off that pitch with the rest of the players and the manager and it’s one of those moments that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and it’s a feeling I’ll never forget.