Leicester are set to kick off their Championship campaign on Sunday as they welcome Coventry City to the King Power.
The game will be Enzo Maresca’s first competitive game in charge and gives him an opportunity to lay down a marker as to his intentions for the season.
The line-up will show the huge nature of rebuild which the Foxes have undertaken this summer already.
It is expected there could be as many as four new signings named in the line-up for the game.
This will be their first game in the Championship for 10 seasons.
It’s also possible that as few as two of the 11, who played the clubs final Premier League game, could start this game on Sunday.
Predicted Leicester XI
The first of the debutants will come in goal with Mads Hermansen almost guaranteed to start. He comes in to solve one of Leicester’s biggest issues last season.
In the full-back positions, we expect Ricardo Pereira to play on the left with Timothy Castagne in the right back slot.
In the centre-back positions, it is unknown the status of Conor Coady’s injury however it would be likely he misses this fixture along with Wout Faes who’s been missing from the past two games.
Therefore we expect that Jannik Vestergaard will start in defence, with new signing number two, Callum Doyle next to him.
In midfield, new signing Harry Winks will start as he already had made himself one of Maresca’s top men.
With him could be Wilfried Ndidi and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in either of the other midfield positions, with Dennis Praet possibly injured.
The from three will be hugely different to the line-up Leicester departed the Premier League with.
We expect Kasey McAteer to start on the right as he impressed against Liverpool. On the left we see Stephy Mavididi walking straight into the team with options out wide poor.
Up front will probably be the ex-Manchester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho who will be hoping to light the second division on fire this season.
Leicester predicted XI: Hermansen; Castagne, Vestergaard, Doyle, Ricardo; Winks, Ndidi, Dewsbury-Hall; McAteer, Iheanacho, Mavididi