Leicester City manager Claude Puel has set his side the aim of putting in a strong final push in the Premier League and nailing down a seventh-placed birth starting on Saturday lunchtime against Stoke City.
"It is a good challenge to try to secure a good place in the table. For the moment seventh is Burnley and it will be tough against all these teams around us, but it is an exciting challenge," he said.
Club captain Wes Morgan is in line for a return from injury for the home side, while Shinji Okazaki remains sidelined.
Jamie Vardy has been in fine goalscoring form, netting five in his last five, and will have the reintegrated Riyad Mahrez supporting his efforts to make it six from six at the King Power.
All is rosy in Leicestershire, then, but you couldn’t say the same about the state of affairs up the A50 in Staffordshire.
Stoke City have been on a putrid run of form for some time and sit one from bottom of the Premier League with only a villainous West Brom propping them up.
"Everybody says that 40 points is the [safety] mark, but I don't think this season it will be anywhere near that. I know we can win games and that's what we will try and do," said manager Paul Lambert in his press conference before the game.
It’s not exactly the sort of inspirational chat that Stoke fans would like to hear from the Scotsman and they’ll be without the experience of Peter Crouch on the day.
Young forward Tyrese Campbell has been excelling in the PL2 and is in line for inclusion into a squad desperately in need of a shot in the arm.
Verdict: Leicester have been impressive at home of late and Puel’s steady hand has managed them through the latest Mahrez saga ably. They’ll likely prove too strong for a Stoke side who are bad at the best of times and worse on the road.
