Pre-match briefing: Leicester City v Chelsea

Tonight the Blues play their final midweek game of the season. Club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton are ready for an away game of great importance…

 

TALKING POINTS

And so the title chase arithmetic becomes a little clearer. The maximum number of points available to Chelsea, who currently have 77 points, 10 clear of the challengers, is 92. Arsenal can make it to 82, with a goal difference that is five worse than the Blues’ at present, but still have to play at Manchester United. Even if the Red Devils win all their four remaining games they can only match the Blues’ current points total, while their neighbours City can only improve that by two.
Five more points and a better goal difference will deliver the fifth league title in Chelsea’s history, six will confirm it outright. If the fired-up celebrations at the end of the Emirates draw are an indicator, confident Chelsea will be out to finish this as soon as possible.
A win tonight would mean the task could be completed at the Bridge in Sunday’s lunchtime encounter with Crystal palace

Pos	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Chelsea	33	39	77
2	Man City	34	34	67
3	Arsenal	33	31	67
4	Man Utd	34	25	65
5	Liverpool	34	10	58
6	Tottenham	34	6	58
7	Southampton	34	21	57
8	Swansea	34	-3	50
9	Stoke City	34	-3	47
10	Everton	34	1	44
11	West Ham	34	0	44
12	Crystal Palace	34	-5	42
13	West Brom	34	-14	37
14	Newcastle United	34	-21	35
15	Hull City	34	-13	34
16	Aston Villa	34	-22	32
17	Leicester City	33	-16	31
18	Sunderland	33	-23	30
19	Queens Park Rangers	34	-21	27
20	Burnley	34	-26	26