A clash between last season's top two

It's back to the 1975/76 season for our last top flight meetings. We lost the Filbert Street encounter 3-2 but beat them 1-0 at Turf Moor.

We twice came from behind at Filbert Street, Peter Noble scoring from the penalty spot for the first and Leighton James getting the second. Noble suffered a groin injury taking the penalty, He missed all but four of the games until the last six of the season whilst James was only one game from the end of his first spell as a Claret.

Keith Newton scored the goal at Turf Moor in what was a first home win for new manager Joe Brown.

There were two seasons in the late 70s and one in the early 80s when we were in the same division but, that apart, we were mostly below them until Leicester suffered relegation from the Premier League in 2002 and our visits there resumed.

A 2-0 League Cup defeat in 1995 proved to be our last ever appearance at the old Filbert Street ground. It was still standing across the road from the new stadium when we visited in 2002 but was soon to be demolished.

George Boyd thinks West Brom was a one off

Our visits to the new stadium, initially known as the Walkers Stadium, proved successful. We drew one of our first five visits 0-0 but the other four were all won 1-0 with the winning goals coming from Ian Moore, Ade Akinbiyi and then Andy Gray twice.

The last of them was the day Steve Davis was in charge in November 2007 but it was the last time we've won there with two defeats and two draws since.

We are not going there at the best of times. We suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat at West Brom last Sunday with a number of players out injured. The one shining light was the second half performance of substitute Nathaniel Chalobah on his debut as a substitute but he too has been added to the casualty list with a wind pipe injury sustained in the Under-21 Cup defeat against Hull.

The players remain positive and George Boyd, who made his debut at Crystal Palace three weeks ago, said: "I think Sunday was a one off. We were well below par, I think everyone on the pitch was.

"That wasn't us physically. It was nowhere near it and at this level if you are 10% off it you are going to get punished. We put it down as a blip because apart from Sunday our performances have been good.

"We're creating chances and I think we had 18 attempts on goal against Sunderland. The chances are there. We're not struggling to create and I'm in no doubt that goals will eventually come."

Boyd said of his first impressions to life at Burnley: "I'm loving it. I've settled in really quickly. There's a great team spirit here and it is important that we stick together as a group. As long as we do it, the goals and wins will come and we'll be fine.

The good news coming out of Turf Moor is that all of Danny Ings, David Jones, Dean Marney and Matt Taylor are expected to be fit for our home game against West Ham in two weeks time. The bad news is that none of them are expected to feature again tomorrow with Chalobah added to that list.

Sean Dyche has admitted: "We now have the challenge of finding the players who can adapt to the task or how we can flex the tactical shape in order to slot players in so they're comfortable and they're in the best position.

"It's finding that balance, with no guarantees of course, because we will arguably have to put people in unfamiliar spots. One thing we can guarantee though is that we'll give everything to win and we've seen that so many times."

It's difficult to work out just what the team might be but he'll select from the following: Tom Heaton, Kieran Trippier, Michael Duff, Jason Shackell, Ben Mee, Steven Reid, Ross Wallace, Scott Arfield, George Boyd, Michael Kightly, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Matt Gilks, Kevin Long, Michael Keane, Stephen Ward, Ashley Barnes, Marvin Sordell, Danny Lafferty.

Leicester have no such problems and their two injury doubts, Ritchie De Laet and Esteban Cambiasso, have both been passed fit after picking up injuries in the defeat at Crystal Palace last week.

They've made a decent enough start to their first season in the top flight since that relegation in 2002 and currently sit in 12th place with 9 points from their 6 games. At home they've drawn against Arsenal and Everton whilst beating Manchester United and away from home they've won at Stoke but lost the other two at Chelsea and Crystal Palace.

Much has been said of our inability to get a goal and that it will be a club record if we fail to score tomorrow, and before last week another talking point was the fact that we'd kept three consecutive clean sheets.

It's not a similar story at Leicester. They've kept one clean sheet but have conceded two or more in four of their six games. They've failed to score just twice and, with the 5-3 win over Manchester United, have scored nine times.

They've continued one thing from last season and already scored twice from the penalty spot. Both were in the United win and the first of them, converted by David Nugent, was the turning point and a shocker of a decision from referee Mark Clattenburg who failed to award a free kick against Jamie Vardy for a blatant foul on Rafael.

Vardy scored the fourth goal in that game. Nugent and Cambiasso were also on the scoresheet. They haven't scored in any other games and are joined on one goal by Chris Wood. However, Leonardo Ulloa, the big summer signing from Brighton, has netted five league goals for them with only Chelsea's Diego Costa having scored more Premier League goals this season.

Ulloa is expected to line up in a Leicester team that shouldn't show much change from the one that played at Palace last week.

That team was: Kasper Schmeichel, Ritchie De Laet, Wes Morgan, Liam Moore, Paul Konchesky, Dean Hammond, Esteban Cambiasso, Danny Drinkwater, David Nugent, Jamie Vardy, Leonardo Ulloa. Subs: Ben Hamer, Andy King, Marcin Wasilewski, Jeff Schlupp, Danny Simpson, Matty James, Riyad Mahrez.

Last Time We Were There

Burnley were top of the league when ahead of last season's Championship game against Leicester at the King Power Stadium. We were above QPR on goal difference and one point ahead of Leicester.

There was good news for Burnley fans ahead of kick off with Dean Marney returning to the side after injury. In the only change after the 1-0 home win against Barnsley he came in for Brian Stock who would go on to make just two more substitute appearances for us.

We thought this was going to be a difficult game and so it proved. Leicester got on top right from the kick off. They poured forward. Lloyd Dyer and Anthony Knockaert were threats down the flanks and it was all hands to the pumps to keep us level.

Danny Ings equalised just after half time

But it wasn't one of the aforementioned players who produced the opener on 14 minutes but referee Andy D'Urso who inexplicably awarded them a penalty. He gave it against Ben Mee but television pictures showed that no foul had been committed as Jamie Vardy went down.

Predictably David Nugent stepped up and scored from the spot and we were a goal down.

As the half wore on so we got more into the game and as half time approached there was nothing between the teams. But right on the whistle Vardy shot just wide. A goal then and it would have been all over but it allowed us to go in just one goal behind.

The second half was a different story. We drew level very quickly when Danny Ings got between defenders to convert a Kieran Trippier cross. There were less than 90 seconds gone and it prompted an excellent second half performance from the Clarets.

Our best chance to win it came when Sam Vokes got clear, one-on-one with Kasper Schmeichel, but the keeper won the day with a good save.

A late Leicester charge came to nothing, other than Tom Heaton making one good save to keep out a deflected shot, and we'd earned ourselves what was, in the end, a fully deserved point in what was surely going to be one of the toughest games of the season.

I think any good judges would have left that game believing they'd seen the top two in action, the two that could be expected to go on and win promotion.

The teams were;

Leicester: Kasper Schmeichel, Ritchie De Laet (Marcin Wasilewski 70), Wes Morgan, Liam Moore, Paul Konchesky, Anthony Knockaert, Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Lloyd Dyer, David Nugent (Gary Taylor-Fletcher 69), Jamie Vardy (Jeff Schlupp 83). Subs not used: Conrad Logan, Ignasi Miquel, Dean Hammond, Andy King.

Burnley: Tom Heaton, Kieran Trippier, Michael Duff, Jason Shackell, Ben Mee, Scott Arfield, Dean Marney, David Jones, Michael Kightly (Keith Treacy 72), Danny Ings, Sam Vokes. Subs not used: Alex Cisak, Kevin Long, Danny Lafferty, David Edgar, Brian Stock, Junior Stanislas.

Previous Games against Leicester

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