Leicester City vs Ipswich Town Live Stream, Predictions (May 18)

📊 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City head into this match following on from a 2-2 Premier League drawn game against Nottingham Forest.

In that match, Leicester City managed 44% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Leicester City, the goals were scored by Conor Coady (16') and Facundo Buonanotte (81'). Nottingham Forest got 15 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Morgan Gibbs-White (25') and Chris Wood (56') scored for Nottingham Forest.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Leicester City have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Leicester City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 11 goals on the way.

Their past results show that Leicester City:

• have not been beaten in the league by Ipswich Town in their previous 5 games.
• have not won against Ipswich Town in their previous 3 league matches.

Ipswich Town

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Brentford in Premier League action, Ipswich Town and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Ipswich Town managed 49% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. At the other end, Brentford had 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Kevin Schade (18') was the scorer for Brentford.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Ipswich Town, at least three goals have been hit. The average goals scored per match in that spell is 3.17, with the average number of goals for Ipswich Town being 0.83. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Their past results show that Ipswich Town:

• have not registered a win against Leicester City when they've played them away from home in the last 10 league games. Not an away record to be proud of.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 02/03/2013 shows that Leicester City have won 2 of them & Ipswich Town 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

A sum of 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 of them from The Foxes and 5 belonging to The Tractor Boys. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The previous league contest between these sides was Premier League match day 10 on 02/11/2024 when it finished Ipswich Town 1-1 Leicester City.

On that day, Ipswich Town managed 43% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Leif Davis (55').

For their opponents, Leicester City got 19 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Jordan Ayew (94') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Tim Robinson.

📋 Team News: Leicester City

Ricardo Pereira (Muscle injury), Stephy Mavididi (unknown injury), Bobby De Cordova-Reid (Muscle injury), Mads Hermansen (Groin injury), Issahaku Fatawu (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Harry Souttar (Achilles tendon rupture) are not available for Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.

It’s our opinion that The Foxes look set to use the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Jakub Stolarczyk, James Justin, Wout Faes, Conor Coady, Luke Thomas, Wilfred Ndidi, Oliver Skipp, Kasey McAteer, Jordan Ayew, Bilal El Khannouss and Jamie Vardy.

ℹ️ Team News: Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has to currently contend with reduced team options. Arijanet Muric (Shoulder injury), Sammie Szmodics (Ankle injury), Conor Townsend (Thigh problems), Nathan Broadhead (Hamstring injury), Chiedozie Ogbene (Achilles tendon rupture), Jaden Philogene (Knee injury) and Wes Burns (Knee surgery) will not be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that The Tractor Boys appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Alex Palmer, Axel Tuanzebe, Dara O'Shea, Cameron Burgess, Jacob Greaves, Sam Morsy, Jack Taylor, Omari Hutchinson, Conor Chaplin, Julio Enciso and Liam Delap.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Ipswich Town will have to play well to get anything against this Leicester City side who we reckon will manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore seeing a hard-fought 1-0 winning margin for Leicester City at the end of this one.

Let’s see how it plays out.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Checking the betting prices for this game on the 90 min. result market, victory for Leicester City is available for 2.3, a bet on the draw is 3.5 and staking on victory for Ipswich Town will get you 3. They are the best market prices being offered at the moment.

Lucas Pereira, 15:02 14/05/2025