Leicester defender Wes Morgan insists his side can follow up last season’s shock title success with a second consecutive Premier League crown.

The Foxes stunned the Manchester heavyweights, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs to claim the Premier League crown last year but few are expecting them to repeat their achievement.

Morgan however, remains confident Leicester can defend the trophy and Claudio Ranieri’s men are available at 26.00 to win the Premier League outright.

The defender is well aware that opposing teams will have an added incentive to down Leicester this season as they are the champions, but that doesn’t mean he thinks they will not be involved in the battle for the top prize once again in 2016/17.

He told the BBC: “Last season no-one thought it was possible and we did that, so why not? We’re defending champions, we’re full of confidence, we know what we’re capable of.

“On our day we are capable of beating anyone so I don’t see we can’t go ahead and do it again.

“We’re going to have to be ready for the onslaught, so to speak, but that’s to be expected as defending champions.

We’ll be ready when the time comes. “Leicester have lost star midfielder N’Golo Kante to Chelsea this summer but the capture of Nampalys Mendy from Nice may fill the void created by the France international’s departure.

Ranieri has also snared forward Ahmed Musa from CSKA Moscow in a £15million deal and the Nigeria international may prove to be a very shrewd signing, given his impressive pre-season display in a recent friendly defeat to Barcelona.

Leicester are 2.05 to win their Premier League opener at newly-promoted Hull City next weekend.