Leicester City vs Chelsea: Paul Merson drops prediction

Former Arsenal star Paul Merson has dropped his prediction for this weekend matches, and it included that if Chelsea vs Leicester City.

The Blues will head to the King Power Stadium to battle it out with the Foxes in their first game after the international break.

Chelsea will hope to emerge, winners, having been held down to a 1-1 draw vs Burnley.

Merson, in his statement, stressed that Chelsea were the better side vs Burnley, but they were not ruthless enough.

Leicester City are seated at the 12th spot on the EPL log and would hope to move higher on the log table by defeating the toppers Chelsea this weekend.

Providing his predictions, Merson told Sportskeeda, “I’m going to go for a Chelsea win. They were by far the better team against Burnley but weren’t ruthless enough in front of goal. The Premier League will come back and bite you in the backside if you don’t take your chances and that was exactly the case with Chelsea before the international break. They have a lot of injured players at the moment, but Chelsea’s squad is massive and they should be able to cope. Leicester City 1-2 Chelsea.”