• 53-year-old has won both matches in charge since replacing Claudio Ranieri • He will get job until end of the season and tasked with avoiding relegation

Leicester City are expected to confirm Craig Shakespeare has been given the manager’s job for the remainder of the season. Claudio Ranieri’s former No2 was put in charge in the wake of the Italian’s sacking and has convinced the club’s owners he is the right man to steer the club to safety after overseeing consecutive Premier League wins over Liverpool and Hull City.

Shakespeare and the Leicester players have been on a warm-weather training camp this week in Dubai, where the 53-year-old has held talks with the chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, and his son and vice-chairman, Aiyawatt, about staying on as manager until the end of the campaign. It is understood the owners have offered Shakespeare the position, in a move that will go down well with the players and the fans.

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Although Leicester have sounded out a number of candidates, including the former England manager Roy Hodgson, the instant turnaround since Shakespeare took over has eased the pressure on the owners and Jon Rudkin, the director of football, to recruit a permanent and long-term replacement for Ranieri before the end of the season.

That search was always going to be tricky because of the threat of relegation and the timing. Leicester are entitled to think that the managerial landscape will look very different in the summer, when potential candidates who are currently in work may be more willing to consider other opportunities.

Shakespeare, who is highly regarded by Rudkin, was viewed as a short-term option from the outset, although he needed to have an immediate impact. He has ticked that box by overseeing two victories in a week to lift Leicester to 15th place – the first time the Premier League champions have won successive league games this season – and impressing everyone at the club with the way he has handled the responsibility that comes with the job.

Now in his second spell at Leicester, having come back to the club when Nigel Pearson returned in 2011, Shakespeare has never managed before, although he made it clear as soon as he was asked to take the reins in a caretaker capacity that the position did not faze him.

He has done everything that has been asked of him and more since replacing Ranieri a few days before the 3-1 win over Liverpool, and it would have been seen as a strange decision if Leicester’s owners had risked disrupting things by choosing to look in another direction after the win over Hull. During that 3-1 victory, when Leicester came from behind to win for the first time this season, the fans chanted Shakespeare’s name, urged the board to “sign him up” and, in a sign of just how much things have changed on the pitch in such a short space of time, sang: “We’ve got our Leicester back”.

Shakespeare’s only objective will be to achieve Premier League survival, which is firmly within Leicester’s grasp now they are five points clear of the relegation zone, with 11 matches remaining, including home games against Stoke City, Sunderland, Watford and Bournemouth.

His next match will be in the Champions League next Tuesday, when Leicester take on Sevilla in the second leg of their last-16 tie and in a game that is arguably the most important in their 133-year history.

Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, after Jamie Vardy scored a precious away goal, Leicester know a 1-0 victory would be enough to secure a place in the quarter-finals of Europe’s premier club competition.