📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City will be hoping to bounce back here after a 2-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Manchester City.

In that game, Leicester City had 27% possession and 1 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. Manchester City got 18 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Jack Grealish (2') and Omar Marmoush (29') scored for Manchester City.

A recurring feature of recent Leicester City games is the number of nil scores.

Taking their previous 6 matches before this one, in 6 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a loser.

Their prior results show that Leicester City:

• have left without a victory over Newcastle United in their previous 4 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 8 matches in the league. It's been disappointing.

Newcastle United

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Newcastle United will go into the meeting following a 2-1 Premier League win to defeat Brentford in their previous fixture.

In that match, Newcastle United had 49% possession and 21 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Newcastle United, goals were scored by Alexander Isak (45') and Sandro Tonali (74'). Brentford got 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. Bryan Mbeumo (66') was the scorer for Brentford.

The numbers tell their own story, and Newcastle United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 9 goals overall. At the back, Newcastle United can certainly do much better. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 12/12/2021 shows that Leicester City have won 1 of them and Newcastle United 4, with the number of drawn results being 1.

A sum of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 for The Foxes and 11 created by The Magpies. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league match between these clubs was Premier League match day 16 on 14/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Newcastle United 4-0 Leicester City.

On that day, Newcastle United managed 60% possession and 27 attempts at goal with 11 on target. The goalscorers were Jacob Murphy (30', 60'), Bruno Guimarães (47') and Alexander Isak (50').

Leicester City got 4 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Thomas Bramall.

📰 Team News: Leicester City

Issahaku Fatawu (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Harry Souttar (Achilles tendon rupture) will not be taking part for Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.

We think that The Foxes could use a 4-4-2 formation, handing starts to Mads Hermansen, Wout Faes, Conor Coady, Luke Thomas, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Boubakary Soumare, Victor Kristiansen, Patson Daka, Bilal El Khannouss and Jamie Vardy.

📋 Team News: Newcastle United

Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has to currently contend with reduced team options. Sven Botman (Knee surgery), Jamaal Lascelles (Fitness) and Lewis Hall (Ankle surgery) are not ready for selection.

We’re of the thinking that The Magpies might make use of a 4-3-3 formation using Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Fabian Schaer, Daniel Burn, Valentino Livramento, Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy, Alexander Isak and Harvey Barnes.

🧠 Prediction

Newcastle United have the ability to create a good amount of chances and successful shots on target.

Conversely, Leicester City may well struggle finding the net themselves although we reckon that they could well end up converting at least once here.

We’re therefore expecting to see a decent 1-3 victory for Newcastle United after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 18:04 07/04/2025