Marc Albrighton [Exclusive]: Leicester can nick sometimes at Arsenal. Vardy? 20 goals"

Exclusive by Alessandro Schiavone

Marc Albrighton is confident that Leicester City can "nick" something at the Emirates when they are up against Arsenal today.

Despite having yet to win a game, the 2016 Premier League champion thinks the Foxes are well-stocked to cause an upset at the home of last season's runners-up.

And their hard-fought 1-1 draw against Tottenham has proved that they can punch their weight against the country's elite.

Albrighton, 34, told Capital Football: “I think whatever game you go to you’ve gotta go with a positivity and that’s what Leicester will go with.

"They’ve proved it against someone like Tottenham, who are a top team, when they came to the King Power.

“In the second half they were more than a match for them. They’ve got to be confident and positive and hopefully they can go and nick something at the Emirates."

The recently-retired midfielder has then put his eggs in Jamie Vardy's basket to play a key role in keeping the Foxes up.

He said: "Jamie is a top professional, an incredible player and some athlete as well.

"I can see him scoring 15-20 goals this season. If he stays fit that's the minimum that he could get."

But are there any parallels between the current stuttering Leicester side managed by Steve Cooper and the one miraculously sealing survival under Nigel Pearson in 2015?

"No, not so much. I think when we first come up all them years ago I think it was quite a settled squad.

"There weren't too many new faces, there was obviously a couple. I think this is more, there have been more signings and they have to gel more."

Which his class of 2015 brilliantly did before going on to stun the world. But why did things come to a head the following season?

Albrighton said: "I think it's a bit of a mixture of everything. Obviously we lost Kante, we was playing more games obviously in the Champions League and there was a lot of focus on the Champions League.

"All in all there was a lot of things that sort of came together which was the cause of us not performing as well as we possibly could."