'There's Not Much To Choose Between Wolves & Leicester'
- Leicester City meet Wolverhampton Wanderers at King Power Stadium on Sunday (2pm kick-off GMT)
- Both teams are in-form with Wolves unbeaten in four and City winning their last five games in all competitions
- Wolves Correspondent at the Birmingham Mail, Alex Dicken, discussed the Premier League fixture earlier this week
- You can follow live coverage of the game for free on LCFC TV and LCFC Radio
Due to Leicester's midweek UEFA Europa League exploits, following another Premier League fixture against Leeds United on Monday, the Foxes have had much less time to prepare for the game than the visitors, who haven't taken to the field since last Friday.
Dicken, Wolves Correspondent at the Birmingham Mail, believes there will be little to separate the two sides at King Power Stadium this weekend, mirroring recent clashes that have ended goalless.
He praised the work of both Nuno Espírito Santo and Brendan Rodgers, saying it will be another meeting of two great tactical minds with differing philosophies.
"They are both two very good teams and for me probably the best two teams outside the usual big six," Dicken told LCFC.com.
"Last season, both were right up there and challenging for the Champions League probably until the last two or three games when Wolves dropped out of it and then Leicester missed out on the final day.
"Two very good squads, two very good managers, there's not really much to choose between them. They are different styles in that Leicester have tended to have more of the ball under Rodgers and Wolves a little bit more counter attack based, but they are trying to change that now.
"It's two really good teams and it's a game you can't really call after two draws last season, so you just hope your team comes out on top on the day."
Dicken also spoke more in-depth about the influence of Wolves' Portuguese manager Espírito Santo and how the system he has implemented since arriving at the club continues to pay dividends and produce positive results.
"They started playing three at the back with Nuno in 2017 and they played with a 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 formation," he explained.
"He mentioned about a year ago that he thought football was changing and we think it leaned towards this idea that more teams would start to play three at the back in a way to control games and we are seeing it more and more.
"Arsenal are doing it as well, there's probably six or seven teams in the Premier League now who do it quite regularly and obviously Leicester are one of those. It's more common now and it's clearly working.
"I think there are a lot of benefits to it. Wolves seem to have more of their play on the wings because they play quite wide with two natural wing-backs, especially the two they've got now in Nélson Semedo and Rayan Aït-Nouri.
"There is a massive overload in the middle as well with the two attackers and the two midfielders. It's an interesting system and one that you see quite a lot in international football."
Wolves beat Crystal Palace 2-0 at Molineux Stadium in their last league outing, finishing off an excellent October during which they remained unbeaten, taking 10 points from a possible 12 in the Premier League.
Recent results have been aided by the form of Mexican forward Raúl Jiménez, who has already found the net four times so far this campaign.
Dicken added: "There has been an over reliance on Jiménez in the last couple of years, particularly since [Diogo] Jota left because he was a decent route to goal last season.
"Before the Crystal Palace game, in which two different players scored, he had scored four of their six Premier League goals. When you've got a striker that scores so many goals, it's always going to be the case.
"Similarly with [Jamie] Vardy at Leicester, but not to the same extent, Jiménez scored 27 last season, 17 the year before that, he's comfortably always Wolves' top scorer.
"So there does need to be a time where the players around him score more goals, the onus is really on Pedro Neto and Podence and [Adama] Traoré.
"They also signed Fábio Silva in the summer, another big money signing, but he's only young and not really ready to come into the starting XI yet.
"They are good at set pieces, which has been a big strength of the team, they often score off them, but Wolves need to find other avenues to goal."