Leicester City v Chelsea, SS1, 7:45pm K/O

GavRedKing

Leicester come into the game on the back of an exceptional run of form that has seen them win 4 of their last 6 games and moving out of the relegation zone.

Leicester are a point clear of Sunderland whos have played the same amount of games as Leicester but their game in hand is as difficult as Leicesters as they have to play Arsenal in a re-scheduled fixture. A Leicester win would pull them 4 clear of Sunderland and 7 & 8 pts clear of QPR & Burnley who have played 1 game more.

Chelsea are unbeaten since losing away to Spurs 5-3, playing 13 games, winning 9, a win tonight will move Chelsea 13 pts clear of Arsenal and 1 win from winning the title for the first time since Carlo Ancelottis 09/10 success.

Theres been suggestions that Leicester will rest some players on focus on the weekends game against Newcastle but I just cant see. However, David Nugent, Jamie Vardy and Jeff Schlupp are all doubts for Leicetser.

Remy is out and Oscar, Costa and Courtois are all doubts for Chelsea.

Stat :
There have been just eight goals scored in Leicester’s last six Premier League home matches (five for the Foxes, three for their opponents)


Big game at both ends of the table, Chelsea should have enough to get the job done even against a very resiliant Leicester side.

Leicester 1 - 3 Chelsea

Mickeroo

Can actually see a draw happening here.

Johner

Leicester will be raring to go for this with the form they are in. I think they'll just come up short though, 2-1 Chelsea.

Shanotheslayer

Mickeroo wrote: »

Can actually see a draw happening here.

Agree with Mickeroo.

Bookies odds on Chelsea are way to high for me to think they'll blitz this.

Will be interesting to see how Leciester play.

GavRedKing

I reckon the Chelsea players have more belief now and can nearly touch the title after the last 3 results.

Taking 7 pts from 9 really takes the pressure off. Hopefully it shows and the players respond tonight.

Would much prefer Costa over Drogba, we've not brought any youth players with us so we might even see a return to the false 9 if we dont risk Costa and decide to keep Drogba in reserve.

Barr

Leicesters good run to finish tonight. 2-0 Chelsea.

Guy:Incognito

Title is done and dusted bar the shouting, hopefully Leicester get something.

GavRedKing

Mickeroo wrote: »

Can actually see a draw happening here.

Its likely TBH.

They wont give up many opportunities and we've got 1 crocked CF, 1 injured CF an the others an OAP.

Could be very simialr game to the QPR game a few weeks back, a similar result would be welcoming but this game, for the last 2 or 3 weeks has looked liek it could throw up an upset.

hullaballoo

I'd be more confident of gaining points in the Liverpool game and that's not to knock Liverpool. Leicester have too much quality to be in a relegation dog-fight when you look at some of the other teams down that end of the table so they'll be definitely looking for something out of this. Even a "weakened" Leicester team will still be well up for a fight.

As against that, Chelsea notoriously refuse to show up against bottom-half teams and an unmotivated Chelsea side is a catastrophe in the works. I'm just hoping we don't see a repeat of the meltdown last season, even if it began much earlier.

I'd imagine it'll be a 1-0 affair but I wouldn't bet on who will be favoured by that result.

GavRedKing

hullaballoo wrote: »

I'd be more confident of gaining points in the Liverpool game and that's not to knock Liverpool. Leicester have too much quality to be in a relegation dog-fight when you look at some of the other teams down that end of the table so they'll be definitely looking for something out of this. Even a "weakened" Leicester team will still be well up for a fight.

As against that, Chelsea notoriously refuse to show up against bottom-half teams and an unmotivated Chelsea side is a catastrophe in the works. I'm just hoping we don't see a repeat of the meltdown last season, even if it began much earlier.

I'd imagine it'll be a 1-0 affair but I wouldn't bet on who will be favoured by that result.

The league is all but wrapped up IMO its just a case of when not if, we win it.

Not losin ghte last 3 games put us in a great position, couple that with Utd losing their last 2, it gives us a small bit of breathing space.

Of course I'd love to go into this game and steam roll Leicester but I just cant see it. The squad will know what they have to do to get a result and at this stage thats what we need, another result.

hullaballoo

GavRedKing wrote: »

The league is all but wrapped up IMO its just a case of when not if, we win it.

Yeah, I agree that's the case but I have a huge anxiety watching Chelsea line out against "poor" opposition because the team don't have any natural motivation against them. That's why I'd be more confident coming away from a big game like Liverpool with something added to the points tally.

Leicester are also far from being a poor side and I think a lot of their matches saw them losing despite being a much more dangerous side. When Ulloa lost his form, things really got bad for them and the whole team lost confidence. They're coming out the other side of that now and they're looking for a massive push to keep them up and they deserve to stay up. I just hope they momentarily forget what they're playing for tonight...

GavRedKing

hullaballoo wrote: »

Yeah, I agree that's the case but I have a huge anxiety watching Chelsea line out against "poor" opposition because the team don't have any natural motivation against them. That's why I'd be more confident coming away from a big game like Liverpool with something added to the points tally.

Leicester are also far from being a poor side and I think a lot of their matches saw them losing despite being a much more dangerous side. When Ulloa lost his form, things really got bad for them and the whole team lost confidence. They're coming out the other side of that now and they're looking for a massive push to keep them up and they deserve to stay up. I just hope they momentarily forget what they're playing for tonight...

Leicester arent poor, I'd agree. Pearson has turned them around the last few weeks.

This will be the toughest test they face in awhile though, a title chasing Chelsea, which also addresses another point you made earlier, if the Chelsea players cant get up for it against a "poor" side when the title is on the line, their is something lacking with them.

The squad is certainly in a happier place right now leading from the front and after coming through 3 big tests, tonight will be a 4th and I hope theyre up for it.

Leicester will give us nothing easy tonight, the real difference from last year is our away performances and more importantly, results, have improved.

If Costa is 100% I'd play him, if not, keep him for the next few games.

GavRedKing

Gonna miss the 1st hlaf of this as we have our own match so hopefully when I get home we're 3-0 up

Barr

Woohoo just realised this is televised tonight - time to get some beers in

lertsnim

Leicester will lose but I hope it doesn't start a run of poor result until the end of the season

rottie 11

Confident of a comfortable win here. 1-3

Crann na Beatha

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Panthro

Boring win.
Wooooo!

the_monkey

Tibo is ok ?

Barr

FFS Drogba - he is gone to ****

Panthro

Ara Drogba!

Garzorico

What about the speed of the Blue Kenyan through the middle on that last counter...!

Barr

the_monkey wrote: »

Tibo is ok ?

I'd say so , prob just giving Petr Čech a run

Barr

Huth gone - massive loss for Leicester

Panthro

Huth injured
Dropping like flies here.

Barr

Gary Neville talking a lot of sense there.

the_monkey

nice bit of play ..

Barr

What a clearance from JT

Lukker-

Decent game so far

Barr

Everything is going down the right wing with Chelsea

Lukker-

Barr wrote: »

Everything is going down the right wing with Chelsea

Cos Azp can't get forward, no overlapping fb's. Makes it very crowded on the right.

Lukker-

Shocking challenge from Konchesky.

Crann na Beatha

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hots

Phoenix wrote: »

How we playing?

****e. Ramires Drogba and Ivan doing their very best to give the ball away every time

Lukker-

Haha, was expecting Cambiasso to bury that like he did with Inter against us in the CL. Similar chance

Shanotheslayer

Quality save that by Tibo

Barr

Holy crap how did that stay out

Garzorico

Drogba needs not to play again

the_monkey

jaysuusssss......

Barr

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Quality save that by Tibo

His on the bench;)

Sanity_Saviour

why is Drogba still a football player, his talent is gone

Johner

Stick someone else up front, Drogba is hopeless.

Lukker-

Johner wrote: »

Stick someone else up front, Drogba is hopeless.

He can win knockdowns, that's about all he's good for. Can't seem to play a 5 yard pass, completely kills so many moves.

Shanotheslayer

Barr wrote: »

His on the bench;)

He's that good :pac:

Barr

37 year old Drogba is as bad as Torress…………………… well nearly

the_monkey

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

He's that good :pac:

ah beat me to it !

the_monkey

Petr still showing how class he is, if he leaves who will be the #2 keeper ?

Panthro

Nigel is assaulting The Special One

Lukker-

That's a terrible challenge.

I don't think he meant to hurt him but I'd be surprised if he could carry on.

Sugarlumps

Get in!

Barr

FFS