📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 3-1 Championship victory over Norwich City.

In that match, Leicester City managed 61% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Leicester City, the goals were scored by Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (33'), Stephy Mavididi (61') and Jamie Vardy (93'). At the other end, Norwich City had 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Gabriel Sara (20') scored for Norwich City.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Leicester City have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Leicester City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 10 goals along the way.

Coming into this fixture, Leicester City are unbeaten in the league by Birmingham City in their last 6 matches.

Birmingham City

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Birmingham City will go into this encounter following a 1-0 Championship win to defeat Preston North End in their previous outing.

In that match, Birmingham City managed 54% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Birmingham City was Jay Stansfield (68'). Preston North End had 4 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

It has become apparent that Birmingham City have had real problems scoring goals in their past six games, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 3. In those fixtures, The Blues have also seen the collective goal tally of opposing teams equal 6. Historical results aside, it remains to be seen if the trend shall persist in this upcoming game or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that Birmingham City:

• have not registered a win against Leicester City when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 6 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A quick look at past results between these clubs stretching back to 12/04/2013 reveals that these fixtures have been a source of anguish for Birmingham City. They have not managed to get themselves any wins at all while Leicester City have just been stronger than them, winning in 83 per cent of those games played.

A combined total of 21 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 14 from The Foxes and 7 belonging to The Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

🗞️ Team News: Leicester City

The Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca has zero fitness worries to speak of before this game owing to a fully healthy group available to select from.

We are thinking that The Foxes should make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation, beginning the first half with Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Jannik Vestergaard, Wout Faes, Callum Doyle, Wilfred Ndidi, Harry Winks, Issahaku Fatawu, K. Dewsbury-Hall, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy.

📰 Team News: Birmingham City

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there is just the one fitness worry for the Birmingham City gaffer Gary Rowett to contend with. Alfie Chang (Knee injury) won’t be playing here.

We reckon that The Blues will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, starting John Ruddy, Ethan Laird, Dion Sanderson, Emanuel Aiwu, Lee Buchanan, Krystian Bielik, Seung-ho Paik, Koji Miyoshi, Jordan James, Juninho Bacuna and Jay Stansfield.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Birmingham City have the firepower to get a goal against this Leicester City team, but it realistically won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Leicester City at full-time. Should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 13:02 06/04/2024