Last season’s PFA Player of the Year calmed all the speculation surrounding his future at Leicester by signing a new four-year deal with the Premier League champions.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has paved the way for a move for an experienced defender after insisting he has set no age limit on any new signing.
The Algeria worldwide brought speculation over his future to an end by penning a new four-year deal with Claudio Ranieri’s side this week.
Both the teams have come off a loss on Match day 1 with Leicester suffering a 1-2 defeat at the hands of newly promoted Hull City and Arsenal losing out to Liverpool 3-4 at the Emirates stadium last week.
Arsenal have quite a few injury problems.
The Premier League match between Leicester City and Arsenal will be broadcast live on CNBC.
On the other side, Arsenal lost to Liverpool last weekend so this game will be especially important for them because they don’t want to fall six points behind the competition after just two games played.
In a further blow to Leicester, new signing Nampalys Mendy went off injured early in the second half after getting his studs caught in the turf and appearing to twist his foot. Last year, we won the league. The Chilean grabbed a hat-trick at the King Power last season to help lift Arsenal over the future champions by a score of 5-2.
Kasper Schmeichel cut out Arsenal’s best opportunity in the second half, with Mesut Ozil, making his season debut off the bench, combining with Alexis Sanchez only to have the Leicester goalkeeper slide it to safety.
The former Le Havre man provided 11 Premier League assists as well as 17 goals last season and Wenger says that shows Mahrez is one of the most unsafe forwards in the country.
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The Gunners had a horror start to their season as well. My ambition this season is to make 82 if possible. They can not afford to lose their opening two games for the risk of already being six points behind their title rivals. This looks destined to be a tight affair that ends in a draw.
