📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 1-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Plymouth Argyle.

In that match, Leicester City had 70% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Plymouth Argyle had 5 shots at goal with 3 on target. Mustapha Bundu (21') scored for Plymouth Argyle.

It has been seldom in recent times that Leicester City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Leicester City have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, letting in 9 goals during that time. Previous results aside, time will tell if that pattern might be sustained here in this match.

A look at their previous results shows us that Leicester City:

• haven't lost in the league to West Bromwich Albion in their previous 6 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

West Bromwich Albion

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Sunderland in Championship action, West Bromwich Albion will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, West Bromwich Albion had 50% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Sunderland got 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. Pierre Ekwah (45') scored for Sunderland.

Carlos Corberán's West Bromwich Albion have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 9 times in the course of their latest sextet of matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during that period equals 6.

Leading up to this clash, West Bromwich Albion:

• have not emerged victorious against Leicester City in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 7 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 29/04/2017 shows that these fixtures have ended in disappointment for West Bromwich Albion. They’ve not managed to get any wins at all while Leicester City have been too good for them, getting wins in 83 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 14 from The Foxes and 3 coming from The Baggies. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league game between the two was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Leicester City.

In that match, West Bromwich Albion had 40% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Josh Maja (89').

Leicester City got 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (72') and Harry Winks (94') scored.

The match was refereed by Tim Robinson.

📰 Team News: Leicester City

The Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this game with a completely healthy squad to pick from.

We think that The Foxes will probably go for a 4-3-3 system for the game, beginning the first half with Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Wout Faes, Jannik Vestergaard, James Justin, Harry Winks, Wilfred Ndidi, K. Dewsbury-Hall, Issahaku Fatawu, Jamie Vardy and Stephy Mavididi.

ℹ️ Team News: West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion manager Carlos Corberán has to currently contend with reduced team options. Jayson Molumby (unknown injury) and Daryl Dike (Achilles tendon surgery) miss out here.

We’re of the thinking that The Baggies might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Alex Palmer, Darnell Furlong, Cédric Kipré, Kyle Bartley, Conor Townsend, Okay Yokuslu, Alex Mowatt, Tom Fellows, Grady Diangana, Michael Johnston and Jed Wallace.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Leicester City have it within them to score a couple of goals when they come up against West Bromwich Albion, who might well find it a difficult task to get a goal of their own.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 2-0 winning margin for Leicester City at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 11:05 20/04/2024