DEFENDING champions Leicester City should have a spring in their step again when they welcome Burnley to the King Power Stadium on Saturday.
Claudio Ranieri’s men crashed 4-1 at Liverpool last weekend – the second defeat of their title defence -but made a memorable Champions League bow in mid-week by winning 3-0 at Belgian side Club Brugge.
“This has gone now. It’s been nice to enjoy it, but it’s gone now,” said Marc Albrighton, who opened the scoring in Bruges.
“We’ll have a meeting about Burnley now and we’ve got to get our heads switched on to them. We’ll have no problem focusing on that.
“We know that’s our bread and butter. We need to concentrate on our league form and get some wins there and that’s where it matters.”
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Danny Simpson is hoping to return to The Foxes line-up after picking up a hamstring injury in the defeat to Liverpool.
Islam Slimani started in the Brugge game, and will be hoping he did enough to convince Ranieri to start him against Burnley.
Jeffrey Schlup and Nampalys Mendy are also in contention after recovering from injury, although a lack of match fitness may see them miss out.
Leicester likely: Schmeichel; Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Amartey, Albrighton, Slimani, Vardy.
Burnley likely: Heaton; Lowton, M Keane, Mee, Ward, Boyd, Hendrick, Defour, Arfield, Gray, Vokes.
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