📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City head into this match following a 2-2 Premier League drawn game versus 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 scorers were Conor Coady (16') and Facundo Buonanotte (81'). Nottingham Forest got 15 shots at goal with 4 of them 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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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Brentford in Premier League competition, Ipswich Town and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Ipswich Town had 49% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Brentford had 15 attempts at 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

A review of their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 02/03/2013 tells us that Leicester City have won 2 of these and Ipswich Town 1, with the number of drawn games being 3.

A combined sum of 13 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for The Foxes and 5 coming from The Tractor Boys. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The last league fixture between the two was Premier League match day 10 on 02/11/2024 when the final score was Ipswich Town 1-1 Leicester City.

On that day, Ipswich Town had 43% possession and 14 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Leif Davis (55').

Leicester City had 19 attempts on goal with 6 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) will not be able to play for Leicester City gaffer Ruud van Nistelrooy.

It’s our opinion that The Foxes will possibly go for a 4-2-3-1 formation with Jakub Stolarczyk, James Justin, Conor Coady, Wout Faes, Luke Thomas, Wilfred Ndidi, Boubakary Soumare, Kasey McAteer, Jordan Ayew, Bilal El Khannouss and Jamie Vardy.

🗞️ Team News: Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Arijanet Muric (Shoulder injury), Nathan Broadhead (Hamstring injury), Chiedozie Ogbene (Achilles tendon rupture), Jaden Philogene (Knee injury) and Wes Burns (Knee surgery) won’t be making appearances.

There’s a good chance that The Tractor Boys seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Alex Palmer, Axel Tuanzebe, Dara O'Shea, Jacob Greaves, Leif Davis, Sam Morsy, Jack Taylor, Omari Hutchinson, Julio Enciso, Jack Clarke and George Hirst.

🔮 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.

Lucas Pereira, 13:03 18/05/2025