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  1. 🎧 The Wolves previewpublished at 20:52 21 December

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    The latest When You're Smiling podcast has landed.

    The Foxes are preparing to face Wolves at King Power Stadium and Owynn Palmer-Atkin is joined by The Athletic's Rob Tanner to preview the bottom of the table clash.

    Plus hear from manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, who provides updates on Mads Hermansen's injury and Harry Winks' availability.

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  2. Sutton's predictions: Leicester v Wolvespublished at 12:06 21 December

    Chris Sutton and Jon McClure

    Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against a variety of guests.

    For week 17, he takes on Reverend & the Makers singer Jon McClure.

    Sutton's prediction: 1-1

    Wolves have just appointed Vitor Pereira as Gary O'Neil's replacement but they could be without their best attacking player, Matheus Cunha, through suspension, and he would be a huge miss.

    They will be hoping for the same bounce in results that Leicester got when they appointed Ruud van Nistelrooy as manager a few weeks back but I think the Foxes were quite fortunate in some of those games.

    Leicester have shown some spirit under Van Nistelrooy, but they are still heavily reliant on Jamie Vardy up front and still leaking goals too.

    Wolves have even bigger problems at the back so Pereira might come in and try to shut up shop, but I don't know if they are capable of doing that - they are still the same players that conceded so many goals under O'Neil.

    McClure's prediction: 1-1

    Wolves have got enough quality to nab a draw here.

    Read the full predictions and have your say

  3. Van Nistelrooy on Hermansen's fitness and what the focus has been in trainingpublished at 11:44 20 December

    Josh Lobley
    BBC Sport Journalist

    Leicester City boss Ruud van Nistelrooy has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Premier League game against Wolves (kick-off 14:00 BST).

    Here are the key lines from his news conference:

    • Van Nistelrooy says it's a "possibility" that Mads Hermansen will be involved this weekend after he picked up an injury against Newcastle.

    • Elsewhere in the squad he confirmed Harry Winks is available for selection, however Wilfried Ndidi is still out.

    • On the challenges of facing a Wolves side who have recently hired a new manager: "You can do some research on what he's done in Saudi and the teams he has managed before. You can look on how Wolves have been playing in the last few months. Will it be big changes or minor? We have to deal with it in the moment itself."

    • He spoke about what the team have worked on in training this week: "We had some good meetings. Set-pieces was a big part of that so I'm expecting an improvement there. We worked on decision making and structure on the ball. We have to protect ourselves better on the ball to prevent counter-attacks."

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  4. Leicester City v Wolves: Did you know?published at 11:42 20 December

    Victor Kristiansen of Leicester City with Matheus Nunes of Wolverhampton Wanderers during the Premier League match between Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers at King Power Stadium on April 22, 2023Image source, Getty Images

    The six Premier League meetings between Leicester City and Wolves at the King Power Stadium have seen just seven goals scored, compared to 21 in the six meetings between the sides at Molineux.