Leicester City travel to North London to face Arsenal at The Emirates in the Premier League on Saturday.
Steve Cooper will take his Leicester City squad to Arsenal knowing that they will not have many tougher tests this season.
Leicester will have to be much-improved from their 1-1 draw with Everton at the King Power on Saturday if they are to have any hope of taking something from the Gunners.
A first league win of season remains elusive, but Cooper could see his side earn a confidence-boosting win over League Two Walsall in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night in preparation for the Arsenal clash on Saturday.
Leicester City learn officials for trip to Arsenal
The Premier League announced the officiating teams for each of the forthcoming weekend’s fixtures on Tuesday.
Leicester’s match against Arsenal will be refereed by Sam Barrott, with Scott Ledger and Wade Smith lineman and Dean Whitestone the fourth official.
Leicester will be hoping that there is no VAR controversy at The Emirates with Cooper still feeling aggrieved about a goal the Foxes conceded in the 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace after it was initially flagged for offside.
The VAR official for the game will be Paul Tierney, with Sian Massey-Ellis his assistant in the VAR room.
Leicester City vs Arsenal VAR official Paul Tierney embroiled in controversy last season
Tierney himself will also behaving for a drama-free afternoon before he concludes the weekend by again acting as the VAR official for Bournemouth against Southampton on Monday night.
Tierney was at the centre of a controversial moment last season involving Leicester’s rivals Nottingham Forest as he failed to return possession to Forest after stopping the game with a Liverpool player down and Forest on the attack.
Instead, Tierney gave the ball to Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher to resume play which eventually resulted in Darwin Nunez scoring a last-gasp winner much to the anger of Forest players, staff and fans.
Speaking on the incident on Match of the Day, Alan Shearer said: “He’s dropped a big clanger, Paul Tierney. He’s got it totally wrong.
“He just blows when Forest have the ball. But what he then does is he give the ball back unchallenged drop ball to the goalkeeper which is totally wrong.
‘It should ba a forest unchallenged drop ball. It wasn’t in the box it was outside the box. I get the time point, it was a minute and 50 seconds later but – and it’s a big but – if you drop it where Forest should have had the drop everything changes.”
Whilst Leicester fans will have had little sympathy for their rivals, they will be hoping Tierney does not make any questionable decisions against them whilst on VAR duty on Saturday.