📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 6-2 FA Cup triumph against Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Leicester City had 54% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Leicester City, the scorers were James Justin (8', 63'), Stephy Mavididi (35'), Facundo Buonanotte (38'), Jamie Vardy (51') and Wout Faes (93'). For their opponents, Queens Park Rangers had 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Jonathan Varane (18') and Rayan Kolli (45') scored for Queens Park Rangers.

Matches featuring Leicester City have tended to be engaging ones lately with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 24 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 8 of those belonging to Leicester City. That being said, it remains to be seen if such a trend will be replicated in this upcoming match.

Analysis of their past results shows that Leicester City:

• haven't won against Crystal Palace in their last 3 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league matches.

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace will go into the meeting following a 1-0 FA Cup win to defeat Stockport County in their last fixture.

In that game, Crystal Palace managed 75% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Crystal Palace was Eberechi Eze (4'). Stockport County had 6 shots on goal with 4 on target.

Looking at their form, and Crystal Palace have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 11 goals in all. In defence, Crystal Palace could really do with shoring things up.

Analysis of their past results shows that Crystal Palace:

• have not registered a win against Leicester City when they've played them away from home in the last 4 league matches. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 26/04/2021 shows that Leicester City have won 2 of them and Crystal Palace 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

A combined sum of 17 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 9 of them from The Foxes and 8 coming from The Eagles. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The previous league match between the two was Premier League match day 4 on 14/09/2024 when it ended Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester City.

That day, Crystal Palace had 67% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Jean-Philippe Mateta (47', 92').

At the other end, Leicester City had 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Jamie Vardy (21') and Stephy Mavididi (46') scored.

The match was refereed by Tony Harrington.

📰 Team News: Leicester City

Wilfred Ndidi (Hamstring injury), Mads Hermansen (Groin injury), Ricardo Pereira (Hamstring injury) and Issahaku Fatawu (Cruciate ligament surgery) will not be taking part for Leicester City boss Ruud van Nistelrooy.

We think that The Foxes may well opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one and select Jakub Stolarczyk, James Justin, Conor Coady, Wout Faes, Victor Kristiansen, Harry Winks, Boubakary Soumare, Jordan Ayew, Bilal El Khannous, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy.

ℹ️ Team News: Crystal Palace

It’s our belief that The Eagles could decide to play in a 3-4-2-1 lineup by sending out Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guehi, Daniel Munoz, Tyrick Mitchell, Jefferson Lerma, Will Hughes, Ismaila Sarr, Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

💭 Prediction

Here is a game where Leicester City may not find it easy to hit the back of the net against this Crystal Palace outfit who we think might get the vital goal that wins it.

We’re therefore anticipating a very even match with a 0-1 win for Crystal Palace when the referee blows for full-time.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

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Lucas Pereira, 19:01 15/01/2025