Faith can move mountains, and Chelsea will want to show back-to-back victories without conceding have built momentum as we travel to Leicester in the Premier League on Saturday.

Tuesday’s passage into the Champions League quarter-finals by overturning Dortmund’s first-leg lead at a reverberant Stamford Bridge keeps a silverware target in the Blues’ sights, but the priority now must be climbing up the table.

The Foxes have seen their cushion above the relegation places thinned to two points, but the home crowd could be roused by the sight of three former heroes, Ben Chilwell, Wes Fofana and N’Golo Kante, turning out in the visitors’ livery.

This is the seventh 3pm Saturday outing of the Blues’ league campaign, the first being the reverse fixture at the Bridge in August. Back then, a Raheem Sterling brace was sufficient for the 10 men of Chelsea to claim three points, despite Harvey Barnes’ reply.

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The Londoners, without a domestic win on the road in eight attempts, will want to continue the good work of the past week with a convincing display in the East Midlands.

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Graham Potter has to balance maintaining a winning chemistry with the desire to ease the workload for some and include others who missed out the midweek triumph. Mason Mount has served his UEFA suspension and ineligible players such as Benoit Badiashile, David Fofana and Noni Madueke will be pressing for minutes along with Mykhailo Mudryk, uninvolved on Tuesday.

As the last two results proved, this is a unit still discovering its potency and potential. Kai Havertz showed he has courage with his retaken penalty, though it was gratifying to see no shortage of team-mates willing to take responsibility if required.

With his thumped opener, Raheem Sterling also became the first Blues star to reach double figures in goals and assists this season; two of those came in the 2-1 victory over the Foxes seven months ago at the Bridge.

The back three and wing-backs have also looked coherent and solid, playing higher upfield, and midfield is gaining possession further upfield. However, there is always room for improvement at both ends, including the low-hanging fruit of set-plays.

Four top-flight clubs have allowed opponents more good goalscoring opportunities relative to corners taken than Chelsea, and the seven goals conceded from such situations have knocked eight points off our tally.

In the opposition area, Wes Fofana’s salmon-leap against Leeds brought our fourth corner-goal of the campaign, though Ben Chilwell’s recent deliveries have been a vast improvement. The concerted pressing of opponents has also improved in recent performances, and this weekend’s hosts can come a cropper playing out from the back when harassed.

N’Golo Kante may not quite be ready to feature against his former club, and Armando Broja and Thiago Silva are definitely sidelined. Edouard Mendy is making progress in his recovery and Cesar Azpilicueta could have recovered from concussion.

Combined goals and assists all competitions 2022/23

Scouting the opposition – Leicester

Fifteenth-placed hosts Leicester City have conceded at least once in each of their last 10 matches overall, and in nine of the past 12 at the King Power Stadium. They did not score in six of those home fixtures and have not registered a shot on target in the past two games, despite 12 attempts.

Skipper and leading marksman James Maddison’s quality has stood out in a team lacking form. The number 10 in Brendan Rodgers’ 4-2-3-1 has created numerous chances in recent weeks, despite three straight defeats without finding the net.

Upfront, bustling Nigeria striker Kelechi Iheanacho has been preferred to the 36-year-old Jamie Vardy, whose only league goal came in October. In goal, Danny Ward has faced the fourth-most efforts on target (113) and has the fourth lowest saves-per-shot on target rate in the top flight (63.7 per cent).

First-choice left-back Victor Kristiansen has joined James Justin and Youri Tielemens on the absentee list and Jannik Vestergaard is out of favour, but second leading scorer Harvey Barnes and veteran Jonny Evans may be fit.

The quest for the third

A special atmosphere and passionate display at Stamford Bridge saw two-time Champions League winners Chelsea progress for the 12th time in 18 attempts at overturning a European first leg deficit.

The 2-0 defeat of Dortmund was the Blues’ fifth win in eight playing against Europe’s elite this campaign. Had that Champions League form (effectively two points per game) been replicated in the Premier League, we would currently sit in third place on 50 points.

As it is, Graham Potter’s men are one of four names already in the bowl for next Friday’s draw alongside AC Milan, Bayern and Benfica. The last-eight line-up will be completed next week, with host Man City and RB Leipzig tied 1-1 after the first leg, Porto entertaining Inter, who lead 1-0, Napoli holding a 2-0 advantage against visitors Frankfurt, and Liverpool travelling to Real Madrid having lost 5-2 at Anfield.

Timo Werner’s Leipzig would be the only previously unexplored destination for the Blues in the draws on 17 March, which include the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

We’ve been framed

The frame of the goal played a part in limiting Chelsea’s joy on Tuesday, as it has all too regularly in the top flight this season. Only five teams have seen a strike rebound to safety off the opponents’ post or bar more times than the Blues’ 11.

That is despite the Londoners’ ranking only 11th overall for shots attempted with 296, compared to 432 by Arsenal, who have hit the frame the same number of times. In other words, 3.7 per cent of Chelsea efforts have struck metalwork compared to just 2.5 per cent for the Gunners.

New balls

Conditions may be icy but the Premier League match ball will shed its high-visibility yellow winter plumage from this weekend. Teams have already been training with its replacement, a white Nike Flight with its characteristic ‘X’ graphic, this time in crimson with a purple shadow.

Chelsea at bottom-half clubs

Leicester, currently occupying the 15th rung of the Premier League, are one of three bottom-half clubs Chelsea still have to visit before the end of the season. The Blues have beaten three, drawn with two and lost to two of the previous seven. Aston Villa, currently 11th but level on points with the Londoners, travel to West Ham on Saturday.

Many happy returns, Chelsea FC

As ever at this time of year our gratitude must go to the people who had the foresight to set up Chelsea Football Club on this day in 1905, during a meeting above the Rising Sun (now Butcher’s Hook) opposite the Stamford Bridge grounds.

Over the 118 years of drama, comedy, tragedy and triumph that have followed, the club has touched the lives of millions and we have a special article celebrating the building of the first ever Chelsea squad here

• by club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton