The manager is determined to return to winning ways after the derby loss and draw against West Brom on Saturday.
“We want to win,” he said. “We want the three points because it’s important for us to recover our position in the table. It will be be tough because Leicester are a team with good players and now under (manager) Claude Puel they try to play a different way, but with the same values. It will be tough and for us, it’s a massive game.”
Leicester have lost just one in the last seven in the Premier League - leaders City at the KP Stadium - and it was suggested to Mauricio that they may also find extra motivation from our last visit to the KP, when we ran ot 6-1 winners in May.