Leicester have scored more league goals than anyone else this season and will face a Chelsea side with the third-worst defensive record in the top flight.
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Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, has explained that Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy will succeed anywhere.
Vardy, 28, picked up his consecutive Premier League Player of the Month award.
“If Leicester are where they are, it’s because the manager and players are doing magnificent”, Mourinho added.
The Foxes are the form team in the league as they head into the clash at the King Power Stadium on the back of an eight-game unbeaten streak.
Before that that game they had got seven points from their last three games in all competitions, and seemed to be on a road to recovery.
“Independent of the Bournemouth defeat, I think in the last couple of months everyone is improving, the team is improving”, Mourinho said.
The former Arsenal skipper has witnessed a dramatic loss in form this year after he played an instrumental part in delivering Mourinho’s third title at Stamdford Bridge last year, but the Portuguese says he is not alone in underperforming this term.
He said: “Sympathy? Yes, but I have a good relationship with all the managers”.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he has been slightly overwhelmed by the club’s supporters following their Champions League victory over FC Porto.
Mourinho said he expected Vardy’s record, which he earned with a goal against Manchester United in late November, to last.
“They are there because they are doing magnificently well, we are where we are because we are doing badly”.
The club have looked like they’ve turned the corner, only to suffer a setback, just as was seen against Bournemouth last Saturday.
“I’m so sorry that I can’t play, that I can’t be on the pitch to take some responsibilities”.
“I don’t think we can win the League”, the 24-year-old told the BBC on Thursday.
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“We changed so many things in that period, so many players were leaving when Claudio left, so many players were coming: Petr Cech, Paulo Ferreira, (Ricardo) Carvalho, (Didier) Drogba, (Arjen) Robben, Tiago, (Alexei) Smertin”.
