📊 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City enter this game following a 2-2 Premier League drawn game versus Brighton & Hove Albion.

In that game, Leicester City had 41% possession and 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Leicester City, the scorers were Stephy Mavididi (38') and Caleb Okoli (74'). At the other end, Brighton & Hove Albion had 21 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. João Pedro (31', 55') scored for Brighton & Hove Albion.

An interesting feature of recent Leicester City games is the number of results with a nil in them.

From their prior six clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on BTTS would have been a losing one.

Their prior results show that Leicester City:

• have not beaten Liverpool in their last 4 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 9 league games. No joy for the home fans.

Liverpool

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Liverpool will go into the game after a 2-1 Premier League win to defeat West Ham United in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Liverpool managed 55% possession and 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Liverpool, the goals were scored by Luis Díaz (18'), Andy Robertson (86' Own goal) and Virgil van Dijk (89'). West Ham United got 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Liverpool have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in all. At the back, Liverpool could really do with shoring things up. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/12/2021 shows us that Leicester City have won 1 of these and Liverpool 5, with the tally of drawn results being 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 for The Foxes and 13 being from The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league match between these clubs was Premier League match day 18 on 26/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Liverpool 3-1 Leicester City.

On that day, Liverpool had 69% possession and 20 shots on goal with 7 on target. The goals were scored by Cody Gakpo (45'), Curtis Jones (49') and Mohamed Salah (82').

For their opponents, Leicester City got 4 shots at goal with 1 on target. Jordan Ayew (6') was the scorer.

The referee was Darren Bond.

📋 Team News: Leicester City

Issahaku Fatawu (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Harry Souttar (Achilles tendon rupture) aren’t available for Leicester City boss Ruud van Nistelrooy.

We think that The Foxes should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, handing starts to Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Wout Faes, Conor Coady, Luke Thomas, Wilfred Ndidi, Boubakary Soumare, Bobby Reid, Bilal El Khannouss, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy.

📋 Team News: Liverpool

Liverpool boss Arne Slot has not got a full squad to pick from. Tyler Morton (Shoulder injury) and Joe Gomez (Hamstring injury) miss out here.

We believe The Reds will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Alisson Becker, Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, K. Tsimikas, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai, Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Leicester City will likely be able to get a goal against this Liverpool lineup, but one goal likely won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We are therefore anticipating a close game with a 1-2 victory for Liverpool when the referee blows the final whistle. It should be a decent one.

Peter Guest, 15:02 20/04/2025