Brendan Rodgers insists Leicester are better equipped to handle the pressure at the top of the Premier League thanks to their experiences last season.
Leicester meet Manchester United on Saturday and just as they were 12 months ago, the Foxes are the closest challengers to Premier League leaders Liverpool yet their form dipped in the second half of the campaign and they ended the season fifth.
Though 2019-20 was still an impressive season for Rodgers' side, he is confident they are stronger now than they were a year ago.
He said: 'This Christmas, compared to last Christmas, it's a different feeling. There's a feeling of maturity and development.
'The team is growing the longer we are together. That's only a good sign, if you want to be continuously improving.
'Last season was probably the first time in a number of years where the team had been right up there so that feeling was new to a lot of the players and that can lead to some inconsistency.
'We are up there again so we've shown over these last 18 months there's a nice progression but you've also got to keep that humility and keep working well.
'The players believe in what they are doing. There is a nice quiet confidence and we are winning games like at Tottenham on Sunday.
'When people talk about the top six, their definition is the top six budgets. I don't think it's about where you are as a football team.
'We don't have the finances of the top six but let's see if we can work in a different way to get in there.
'We were able to do that last season and let's see if we can do it again this season.'
Leicester produced one of the greatest shocks in English football history when they won the title in 2015-16, and Rodgers feels the sport needs such tales to keep fans' enthusiasm intact.
He added: 'For everyone in football [unpredictability] is so important. Nobody would want to have the same teams up there all the time. There has to be the possibility for the great story.'
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They're not gonna finish top 4 lol