Stoke City vs Leicester City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be hoping to bounce back here following the 0-1 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Bournemouth.

In that game, Stoke City had 52% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Bournemouth had 10 shots on goal with 2 on target. Junior Stanislas (79') scored for Bournemouth.

Fewer than three goals per match were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Stoke City have taken part. Regarding the goal distribution in that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 5 and The Potters managed a tally of 3. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend might persist in this next game or not.

Leicester City

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Leicester City come into this clash following a 1-2 Premier League win to beat Newcastle United in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Leicester City managed 57% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Leicester City, goals were scored by James Maddison (55') and Youri Tielemans (72'). Newcastle United had 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Andy Carroll (82') was the scorer for Newcastle United.

During their six previous matches, Brendan Rodgers's Leicester City have found the back of the net 10 times therefore giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.67.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 19/09/2015 shows that Stoke City have won 0 of these games & Leicester City 2, with the number of draws standing at 4.

A total of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 7 of them for The Potters and 12 belonging to The Foxes. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league game featuring the two was Premier League match day 28 on 24/02/2018 and the score finished Leicester City 1-1 Stoke City.

On that day, Leicester City had 65% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target.

Stoke City had 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. Xherdan Shaqiri (43') and Jack Butland (70' Own goal) scored.

The referee was Michael Oliver.

📰 Team News: Stoke City

Rabbi Matondo (Gastric problems) and Adam Davies (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury) will not be taking part for Stoke manager Michael O'Neill.

🗞️ Team News: Leicester City

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to select from, Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, Stoke City will surely be able to breach the defence of this Leicester City outfit, however a single goal likely won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a 1-2 win for Leicester City by the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 00:08 05/01/2021