Burnley vs Leicester
Venue: Turf Moor
Kick off: 3PM
Burnley can take a big step towards qualifying for next season’s Europa League when they host Leicester this afternoon.
Having won their last four games in a row, the seventh-placed Clarets are six points ahead of the Foxes with six games left to play.
Seventh place in the Premier League will be enough for a European spot, provided Southampton do not win the FA Cup.
“It’s been a while since Burnley have been in European football so it would be great for us to get back there,” said defender Matt Lowton.
“It’s what you want to do as a young footballer. You want to play in the Premier League and you want to play in European football.”
After a mid-season dip, Burnley have recovered impressively in recent weeks as they have won four games in a row, three of which were away from home.
They now face Leicester and Chelsea at Turf Moor over the next week, with the Foxes having lost to Newcastle last time out.
Leicester did win the reverse fixture 1-0 in December thanks to an early goal from Demarai Gray.
Burnley have lost four of their last five home league games against Leicester, but did win the most recent encounter (1-0 in January 2017).
On the other hand, Foxes are looking to win three consecutive away Premier League matches for the first time since April 2016.
After keeping clean sheets in six of their opening nine Premier League home games this season, and conceding just three goals, Sean Dyche’s side have conceded in each of their last six at Turf Moor (nine goals in total).
Burnley possible XI: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Long, Ward, Gudmundsson, Hendrick, Cork, Lennon, Wood, Barnes.
Leicester possible XI: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell, Mahrez, Silva, Choudhury, Albrighton, Vardy, Okazaki.