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FIRED UP LEICESTER CAN MAKE AMENDS

FEW teams have suffered play-off heartbreak of the magnitude that Leicester did last season.

To be so close to Wembley and to have it snatched from their grasp was something they would have mulled over all summer, but credit to manager Nigel Pearson it appears they have used it to fuel another bid for promotion rather than wonder about how things could and probably should have turned out.

Derby have established themselves as the midtable benchmark in the Championship, not that they would want to.

If you finish above them you’ve had a good year, if you finish below you’re in trouble.

For Leicester to show their strength at Pride Park suggests they will again be battling at the right end of the table and with the experience of last term to power them on few would bet against Pearson’s men being able to go one or two better.

HANDY: Jamie Vardy, right, celebrates with team mates after Derby’s Lee Grant scored an own goal

DERBY CO FORMATION: 4-4-2 LEE GRANT Unfortunate to be credited with the own goal KIERON FREEMAN 6 7 Bombed forward at every opportunity to help his side in attack RICHARD KEOGH 7 Made a timely block to deny Vardy and keep his side in the...