We know what they will talk about for years to come. We know what will rack up the hits on Youtube. Vincent Kompany's goal was as extraordinary and exhilarating as anything we have seen as Manchester City have bludgeoned their way in to English football's VIP area over the last decade. If it proves to be a goal to win a high quality Premier League title race then it feels about right. Ultimately, though, it was arguably not the decisive moment of this captivating game of football. No, that came with only a matter of minutes left and started with the latest in a series of breaks from midfield from young Leicester midfielder Hamza Choudhury. Vincent Kompany's thunderbolt was the difference as City edged closer to the league title Kompany celebrates his fantastic long-range strike in front of the jubilant home supporters Speeding away from sky blue shirts, the 21–year-old looked up and played a perfect pass infield to Leicester substitute Kelechi Iheanacho. On the edge of the penalty area with pretty much only the goalkeeper to beat, Iheanacho should have scored. It was a huge moment in the former City trainee's career and a huge moment in this season. He blew it. The ball, struck first time with his left instep, curled wide of the post and it was game over, maybe title race over too - but the beauty of it was that it happened at all. The joy in it was to be found in Choudhury's lung-burning dash. The young English man has had a terrible week, punished stupidly by the FA for something he posted on social media when he was quite literally still a child. Yet here he was a magnificent presence for Leicester, covering acres of ground as his team ran City desperately close. Choudhury typified this game and typified his team's approach. He was competitive and he was honest. He cared and he really, really wanted to win. Kelechi Iheanacho missed a golden chance at the end to put a huge dent into City's title hopes Hamsa Choudhury impressed in the heart of midfield for Leicester against the title-chasers This game didn't have to be like this. A win for Leicester would have moved them up a single place in the league table while a draw would not have taken them anywhere. So, it was a bit small beer really. Something else clearly motivated Leicester, just like something else clearly motivated Newcastle against Liverpool on Saturday. So two days after seeing Liverpool scared witless in the north-east, here we watched Leicester play with central defender Harry Maguire as a makeshift centre forward for the final ten minutes. Here we saw Kasper Schmeichel run so hard to try and keep a ball in play in injury time that he almost ended up in the stand. It was combative and real and coming so close to the end of a season during which so many teams have looked beaten before kick off against our two best sides, it was quite uplifting. We don't know for sure what drove Newcastle and Leicester to get busy when, mentally at least, they could have been on the beach. We can only guess that it was partly motivated by pride – it would have been quite something to end one of two long winning streaks – but equally two managers will have had an awful lot to do with it too. Rafael Benitez and Brendan Rodgers both believe they belong at the top level. Both have been there. Now their circumstances are more modest and this round of fixtures provided them with opportunity to remind people just how relevant they remain. Certainly this was a Leicester display straight out of the Rodgers playbook. The visiting team pressed City feverishly and looked to break on the few occasions one of Pep Guardiola's players did cough up the ball. Brendan Rodgers came close to doing his former side Liverpool a favour against Man City This was how Rodgers' Liverpool used to play and they almost won a league title. This was how his Celtic team played and they led City three times at Parkhead in the Champions League before drawing 3-3 in Guardiola's first season in 2016. So we probably shouldn't have been surprised. Leicester were ambitious and aggressive and should have scored first, Kompany somehow blocking Choudhury's early shot at a time when City were still looking for some sense of calm. There were other moments, too. Maguire's stroll down the left side set up a James Maddison chance, for example, as Leicester chased the game. Ultimately, Leicester were second best. Of course they were. Everyone tends to be against this City team. The first half was open and even but eventually, as the second period wore on, the sheer weight of City's possession wore their opponents down. As Kompany prepared to strike his decisive blow, Choudhury decided not to close him. He chose to track a runner on his left side instead. It wasn't as if a defender was going to score from there, after all. It proved a bad judgement call, a mistake. It was just about the only one he made on another great night for the Premier League. Rodgers speaks to his former Liverpool player Raheem Sterling after the full-time whistle All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility