Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri is confident a good turn he did for Fulham coach Claudio Ranieri will not come back to bite him when his side clash with the Premier League's bottom club on Sunday. Sarri, who will hope his side rebound from the 3-1 reverse by Tottenham Hotspur last Saturday, extended an invitation to his fellow Italian to watch a training session when he was in England earlier this season.

"I spoke with him for three days -- I don't remember exactly -- one month ago, or 45 days ago," said Sarri, who dined with Ranieri afterwards in the Chelsea training ground canteen. "He came to Cobham to see two, three trainings. He wanted to speak with me, with Gianfranco (Zola)." Ranieri, who was out of work at the time but was hired by Fulham last month after they sacked Slavisa Jokanovic, had years earlier allowed Sarri, then a banker who on the side coached amateur team Antella, to watch a training session at his Serie A outfit Fiorentina.