📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 0-3 Championship victory over Preston North End.

In that match, Leicester City managed 66% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 11 of them on target. For Leicester City, goals were scored by Jamie Vardy (36', 52') and Kasey McAteer (67'). At the other end, Preston North End had 5 shots at goal with 1 on target.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that much solidity has been shown by the Leicester City rearguard. Leicester City have kept it tight, with the total number of goals that have gone in at their end during their past six games standing at 4.

Their prior results show that Leicester City:

• are unbeaten in the league by Blackburn Rovers in their previous 4 games.
• are undefeated in their last 4 league matches at home.

Blackburn Rovers

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In the game prior to this, Blackburn Rovers drew 0-0 in the Championship tie with Coventry City.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers managed 51% possession and 30 shots at goal with 8 on target. Coventry City got 6 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

John Eustace's Blackburn Rovers have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 7 times in the course of their most recent six matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during the equivalent period comes to 9.

Coming into this meeting, Blackburn Rovers have not emerged victorious against Leicester City when they've played them away from home in the last 9 league matches. A very poor run of away results.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 25/08/2012 shows that Leicester City have won 3 of these and Blackburn Rovers 2, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A sum of 19 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 12 of them from The Foxes and 7 for Rovers. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was Championship match day 9 on 01/10/2023 when it finished Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Leicester City.

On that day, Blackburn Rovers managed 48% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Sammie Szmodics (9').

Leicester City got 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Wout Faes (4'), Jamie Vardy (28'), Kelechi Ịheanachọ (82') and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (88') scored.

The match was refereed by James Linington.

ℹ️ Team News: Leicester City

The Leicester City boss Enzo Maresca will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game with a completely injury-free group ready to go.

We think that The Foxes should use a 4-3-3 formation and select Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Wout Faes, Jannik Vestergaard, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Harry Winks, Hamza Choudhury, Abdul Fatawu, Jamie Vardy and Stephy Mavididi.

📰 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

From a largely available group of players, there is only the sole fitness worry for the Blackburn Rovers manager John Eustace to be concerned about. Arnór Sigurdsson (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

We reckon that Rovers seem most likely to elect for a 3-4-1-2 formation, starting the game with Aynsley Pears, Hayden Carter, Kyle McFadzean, Benjamin Chrisene, Callum Brittain, Harry Pickering, Sondre Tronstad, Joe Rankin-Costello, Sam Gallagher, Sammie Szmodics and Tyrhys Dolan.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Blackburn Rovers are dangerous enough to find the back of the net against this Leicester City lineup, however it realistically won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re going for a narrow 2-1 winning margin for Leicester City at full-time.

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

Andre Moura, 11:08 04/05/2024