Leicester will arrive at Upton Park full of confidence after an “on fire” performance against Sunderland last weekend.
Boss Slaven Bilic watched their 4-2 victory over Sunderland and believes the Hammers have the firepower to derail the Foxes at the Boleyn. He said: “They are confident, but also we are confident after a good result last week.
“We are playing at home, we know it will be hard, because every Premier League team is hard. But we will try to win again, of course.”
Describing Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri as a great manager, Bilic added: “He has a lot of experience and success. That isn’t going to change the way they are playing.
“They can change 10%, he can change the formations, he can tell them to wait a little bit or press us even higher than they did against Sunderland. But he cannot change the DNA of the players; he cannot change their qualities or weakness, no matter how much he tinkers.
“They are on fire, they scored four goals, they just continue to play the way they finished the end of last season. They are very good at pressing, they react well when they win the ball.
“They have a good delivery from both sides and look dangerous from set pieces. You don’t have to be sloppy for them to punish you, but if you are then you have absolutely no chance against them. We have to be prepared and stop them.”
Let’s get this making excuses before we play out the way yes they got a hat full of goals but they were playing Sunderland who are my favourites to finish bottom,
We should only be thinking about 3 points positive football and starting building a fortress at home,
Any team on there day can beat anyone but that’s not going to happen this week
COYI
I am looking forward to this match, real shame it won’t be televised as anything could happen, I think defensively against Sunderland they were pretty poor and had some decisions go their way at key points but going forward they play like a team with nothing to lose which isn’t true anymore so hopefully we can exploit that with some good defence and counter attacking.