If Chelsea beat Leicester tonight at the Liberty Stadium, would we be entitled to call the result an upset? If Leicester triumph, would it be all that surprising?  The answer is, of course, nope. Expect Chelsea to have lots of the ball. Expect Leicester not to care one little bit. Last week, in their 3-0 demolition of Swansea, they had just 39% of possession, yet they utterly dominated their Welsh opponents. It is the Premier League’s worst kept secret that Leicester’s strength is their counter-attacking, with Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez ably assisted by Mark Albrighton, Jeffrey Schlupp and N’Golo Kante (and to a lesser extent: Danny Simpson, Nathan Dyer, Danny Drinkwater).  Chelsea’s back line is hardly the quickest. What John Terry, Gary Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic would do to be able to spent some of their considerable wages on another yard of pace. If they are not afforded the protection they need in midfield, this could be another embarrassing night for José Mourinho.  All eyes will be on Claudio Ranieri, facing his former club in the Premier League for the first time since he left Chelsea in 2004. Stuart James has written a quite lovely piece on the Italian, which you can read at your leisure here.  Related: Claudio Ranieri’s legacy to Chelsea hints at bright future for Leicester  Trevor Birch, Chelsea’s chief executive when Ranieri was in charge, argues that without the current Leicester manager, Chelsea might never have been bought by Roman Abramovich.  Finishing second to Arsenal’s Invincibles was no mean achievement and in many ways it was a freak result against Monaco. And don’t forget that the year that he took us to fourth place [in 2003], the only player that we signed was Enrique de Lucas on a free transfer. It was the fact that we beat Liverpool in that final game and got into the Champions League that was instrumental in attracting Abramovich. So Claudio played his part, if you like, in saving Chelsea.  The Italian has always been a popular man in London – he donated all the proceeds of his autobiography, Proud Man Walking, to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital – but because of his affable nature, has perhaps not always been given the respect he deserves. The statement from Tony Pulis earlier this season that Ranieri’s success is simply based on ‘benefiting from all Nigel Pearson’s work’ seems laughable now. If Leicester win tonight, they return to top of the table with 35 points, a tally they didn’t reach last season until the 9 May. You show ‘em, Claudio.
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