Leicester’s season starts now, says Ranieri

Not even a thunderous summer downpour could rain on the Leicester roadrunner’s parade as he latched onto Danny Drinkwater’s pass to cheer a drenched Claudio Ranieri on the King Power side-lines. This season is different.

“Now is too early to say if wind is behind us”.

Also in common with the Leicester of last season is Hull’s work-rate off the ball.

“They connect well”, the Italian manager said.

A lively encounter in north London was then up for grabs, with Spurs looking the more likely winners after staging a series of late attacks. Here’s all the info you need about the ground.

Leicester City had certainly hoped that their Premier League title defense would get off to a much better start than it has.

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– Six of Danny Drinkwater’s eight Premier League assists have been for Vardy goals.

Swansea: Neil Taylor is out, still recovering from global duty over the summer.

Claudio Ranieri: “It’s good to achieve points but also Swansea want to come here and will try to do their best”.

“These three points are very important…in two matches at home we took four points which is okay”, Ranieri told the BBC. We are used to it because in Wales the weather is not very good’.

“I am very disappointed because he is a very good lad”, said Ranieri. Wes Morgan fired home a second early in the second half and when the hapless Amat brought down Shinji Ozaki, Leicester should have sown it up. It’s important to remember that. “Leicester are a strong team – they are nearly the same as last season”.

“They can play together and when they do they will frighten people”. “We worked this week and we prepared a game with other solution for us offensively but we didn’t have the possibility to play well, I think, because of the intensity of Leicester”.

Francesco Guidolin has confirmed Swansea are in the hunt to sign a new centre-back, but he is focused on the Leicester game for now.

Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy runs through to score their first goal against Swansea City during their Premier League match at King Power Stadium, Aug 27, 2016.

The Leicester pressure was maintained, though, and two inviting crosses could have led to goals.

Taylor has yet to feature in the Premier League and made his first club appearance of the season in Tuesday’s EFL Cup second-round win at Peterborough.