Looking to build on Saturday

It's been a strange season so far at home. When you look back to the last season, particularly in the first half of the season, we had a good home record but perhaps one that flattered us with some very fortunate points, such as the home wins against Preston and Watford.

Ben Mee - set to play against his old club

The good fortune then was very much at home whereas it could be said that to date any good fortune has come on our travels, certainly with the wins at Millwall and Coventry.

At home, lady luck hasn't quite been so kind to us. At least one of the three home draws we found ourselves unfortunate not to win, and despite the awful performance against Reading we only lost a point and a clean sheet in the ninth minute of stoppage time.

That led to a lack of confidence in the stands ahead of Saturday's game but for me we turned in our second best home performance of the season, behind only the home draw against Southampton when we played some outstanding football.

Saturday brought a fully deserved three points and now we go into the Leicester game looking for some of the same and another win. Certainly a win would see us go above tonight's opponents Leicester and it would move us much closer to where we would like to be, the top six.

We are currently in 15th place and the highest we've been all season is 14th, that coming after the win at Millwall.

It really is a glass half full/half empty scenario just now. The 'half fullers' will point that four of the last six league games have been won. That's 12 points from 6 games which is very much promotion form.

The 'half empty' group will point to that week on the road recently and the shocking performances at Barnsley and Cardiff with a hardly convincing win at Coventry squeezed between them.

Hopefully we can now continue where we left off against Blackpool.

Eddie Howe has just one additional injury problem. Left back Brian Easton was substituted as early as the 9th minute on Saturday with a hip injury. They are very keen to have him fit and able to continue tonight but the latest news suggested it might be weekend before he's able to resume.

If that's the case then Ben Mee, who came on for him on Saturday, is likely to start at left back with Andre Amougou coming back into the side after being left out of the last two games.

Mee was with Leicester on loan last season and played against us in our 4-0 defeat at the then named Crisp Bowl. Ahead of tonight's game he said, referring to the wins in the last two league games: "These two wins have helped us massively and hopefully we can carry on and get two more before the international break and we will be in amongst it again."

We are expected to line up: Lee Grant, Kieran Trippier, Andre Amougou, David Edgar, Ben Mee, Ross Wallace, Marvin Bartley, Chris McCann, Junior Stanislas, Charlie Austin, Jay Rodriguez. Subs: Jon Stewart, Dean Marney, Alex MacDonald, Keith Treacy, Zavon Hines.

Our Opponents - Leicester City

The plan at Leicester was for Sven Goran Eriksson to spend, spend, spend and take them back up to the Premier League. He certainly did the spending but no matter what happens now to Leicester it will be without the former England manager who was sacked last week.

He was manager for just a few days over a year and made substantial changes to the squad. In the close season alone no less than eleven new players arrived including some big money signings such as Reading central defender Matt Mills and striker Jermaine Beckford from Everton.

Former Burnley loan player David Nugent was amongst them, as were goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, Sean St. Ledger from Preston, and Paul Konchesky who was signed from Liverpool.

It appeared for a time as if their intention was to spend as much as the rest of the Championship put together and for many it was thought they would walk promotion this season.

Maybe they will, but the start was not as they expected or wanted and as such it has cost the former England boss his job. He went after the lost 3-0 at home to Millwall a week last Saturday, their third home defeat of the season. That coupled with no away wins since the opening day of the season, when they beat Coventry 1-0, was enough for the foreign owners to react.

A number of people have been linked with the job, including Kevin Keegan. Huddersfield boss Lee Clark remains the favourite. He was a runner for the Burnley job in January of each of the last two years and despite distancing himself could be a strong candidate alongside former manager Nigel Pearson, currently at Huddersfield.

For now, John Rudkin and Mike Stowell are in temporary charge and they saw their team put up a battling second half show at West Ham on Saturday although they went down to a 3-2 defeat.

They might have to go without both or either of Darius Vassell and Lloyd Dyer. They picked up injuries in Saturday's game. One bit of good news for them is that Matt Mills is available again after serving a three match suspension.

The team at West Ham was: Kasper Schmeichel, Lee Peltier, Sean St. Ledger, Souleymane Bamba, Paul Konchesky, Richie Wellens, Yuki Abe, Andy King, Darius Vassell, Jermaine Beckford, David Nugent. Subs: Chris Weale, John Pantsil, Lloyd Dyer, Michael Johnson, Steve Howard.

Last Time They Were Here

Leicester came to Turf Moor last season on just the third Saturday of the season. They were under new manager with Leicester having replaced Nigel Pearson (who had gone to Hull) with Swansea boss Paulo Sousa, but it was already apparent,  in this just his third game in charge, that it wasn't going to be a lasting relationship between the Portuguese and the East Midlands club.

Brian Laws made one change from the team that had drawn at Ipswich. David Edgar, who had deputised for the injured Tyrone Mears at Portman Road, was suspended but Mears was fit to return in his place.

Graham Alexander completed the scoring

It almost started badly for us when Brian Jensen's first minute error let in Dany N'Guessan, but he recovered to keep the Leicester player out with a good save. Little could he have known that was about it for his work for the afternoon against a Leicester team that had the ability to gain possession but weren't able to do much with it.

We finally got the ball in the net when Andre Bikey headed home a Ross Wallace corner. It was ruled out but only referee Geoff Eltringham will know why although he was indicating that Martin Paterson had been shirt pulling, something no one else had seen.

The next time Bikey went up he caused even more damage. This time he clashed with goalkeeper Chris Weale who, with two minutes of the first half remaining, had to be replaced by Conrad Logan and what a start he had.

With half time almost on us, he took his place in goal, and his first piece of action was to collect the ball from behind him. Wallace hit a speculative effort that deflected off Joao Moreno leaving Logan with no chance.

The brilliant Ralph Coates and Brian O'Neil stepped onto the pitch at half time. Sadly for Ralph it was to be his last ever visit to Turf Moor. What a fantastic reception the two of them received.

It just seemed as though it needed a second goal after the break and it duly came just past the hour. Wade Elliott slipped but was clever enough to get the ball to Wallace who crossed to the far post where Chris Iwelumo made no mistake.

Grezza wrapped it up with a third from the penalty spot to take Burnley to seven points from three games and third place whilst Leicester were down at the very bottom of the table.

The teams were;

Burnley: Brian Jensen, Tyrone Mears, Clarke Carlisle, Andre Bikey, Danny Fox, Graham Alexander, Wade Elliott, Dean Marney (Jack Cork 66), Martin Paterson, Chris Iwelumo (Steven Thompson 76), Ross Wallace (Chris Eagles 66). Subs not used: Lee Grant, Leon Cort, Kevin McDonald, Jay Rodriguez.

Leicester: Chris Weale (Conrad Logan 43), Robbie Neilson (Michael Larney 57), Joao Moreno, Jack Hobbs, Bruno Berner, Andy King, Matt Oakley (Franck Moussa 80), Richie Wellens, DJ Campbell, Steve Howard, Dany N'Guessan. Subs not used: Michael Morrison, Paul Gallagher, Leon Crncic.

Previous Games against Leicester City

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