Leicester must come back down to earth, says Ranieri

Record signing Islam Slimani, who replaced Okazaki in the Champions League, is expected to make his Premier League debut.

He said: “When I was a kid it is something you dream of doing, scoring in this competition”. “We have to perform better offensively and defensively if we want to win that kind of game”. Plucked from obscurity by then Reading boss Alan Pardew in 2008, he’s now the Premier League’s joint top scorer on four goals alongside two rather well-known strikers called Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Diego Costa. The Foxes still look a strong outfit at home but given they’ve got to recover from a mid-week trip to Belgium and they’ve yet to get going in the league we don’t anticipate a thrashing.

“Our first Champions League match was a good victory”.

“Forget Brugge, forget [the 4-1 loss at] Liverpool. Of course, Burnley want to increase the tempo because they might think we’re exhausted but I don’t believe it”.

Leicester are [1.56] to bag the three points on Saturday and that might well be enough for many to pull the trigger. “They told me they are OK and they must show this on the pitch”. After the high of Europe, how will their team adapt to the bread and butter of Premier League football, especially when the first team to test the theory, Burnley, are just the sort of low-key team side that could catch them out?

“It’s a fantastic way of management in my opinion”. We can’t always get everything ideal. Despite the fact that Claudio Ranieri his statements, trying to take the pressure off the players, repeating nearly every conference, Lester – an outsider, apparently, himself prophesied.

With their scheduled away game at Liverpool being switched to Turf Moor due to the rebuilding work at Anfield, Burnley fans have seen their team in action on the road just once in the Premier League this season.

“They played Man City away and he was asked what are you going to have to do at City?” I suspect this will be tight, with Burnley nicking a goal early and then trying to hold on, but ultimately coming up short. We hope to go through the group and play again. It’s refreshing to hear a manager say that.

Even looking back to last season’s triumphant campaign, it’s evident that they’re not sure-things at home and their tally of 12 wins from 19 matches was extremely low for a title victor.

Finally, it’s always worth backing players to stay hot when they get hot so have an anytime scorer punt on Michail Antonio to continue his eye-catching start to the season at West Brom.