Leicester boss Dean Smith knows that his side's superior goal difference could be key in the Premier League relegation battle.
The Foxes are level on points with both Nottingham Forest and Leeds going into this weekend’s round of fixtures, but lie in 16th owing to their better record.
In a six-team tussle to stay up, which also includes Southampton, Everton and West Ham, Smith knows how crucial it could be.
"We can only take one game at a time and see where that leaves us, the draw against Everton we would like to have had a win and so would Everton, but it moved us up the table two places such is our goal difference," Smith said ahead of Monday’s visit to Fulham.
"It probably gives us a head start on the rest of the teams down there. But we have to have a better performance than we did Monday defensively and if we do that we can go and get a result."
The Foxes are currently on a run of playing on three successive Mondays, which has left Smith, who is on a short-term SOS mission to keep the Foxes up, playing catch-up.
"I am not enjoying the weekends because all I am doing is coaching and watching the results come in," he said. "I would much rather be playing ourselves and watching other results after that.
"It’s all consuming, but we knew it would be, seven weeks, eight games, but we are really enjoying it and we believe we are getting a response from the players."
Meanwhile Sean Dyche believes Everton's performance in Monday's 2-2 draw at Leicester has brought the "feel-good factor" back to the squad, even if it did not result in three badly-needed points in their fight against relegation and they lost captain Seamus Coleman to injury.
Everton remain winless in their last seven games having come from behind to rescue a point at the King Power Stadium, but Dyche was keen to take the positives from a performance in which his side had 23 shots at goal, their most in a Premier League fixture for three and a half years.
As they prepare for another Monday away match – this time a much tougher looking fixture at high-flying Brighton – Dyche said the Leicester game had given his players a confidence boost.
"The Leicester performance was a mixture of what we want," he said. "Good energy and good detail, apart from the mistakes from the goals. We looked a real threat constantly and I was pleased with the team performance.
"It reaffirms to them that we are on the right track. I know we aren’t in the league and the table, but in the performances we are.
"We didn’t get the full reward for it but we did get the reward of the feel-good factor and rightly so. It’s not easy going on the road in the Premier League."
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