Leicester VS Manchester City ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )
PREVIEW & TIPS FOR Leicester vs Manchester City
Leicester City and Manchester City play at King Power Stadium in a 12th round Barclays Premier League duel. The history of direct matches played at this stadium favors the visiting team, who in the last 4 games won 2, drew 1 and lost 1. However, in the last match at this stadium, in a match for Barclays Premier League on 10-12-2016, Leicester City only managed to win, by (4-2). The goals of the match were scored by J. Vardy (3 ‘, 20’ and 78 ‘) and A. King (5’) for Leicester City and A. Kolarov (82 ‘) and Nolito (90’) for Manchester City. Particular attention needs to be paid to the home / off condition as Leicester City presents different results at home and abroad.
Leicester Team News
The home team is currently in 12th place with 13 points earned after 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses. In the penultimate match, he won at home to Everton by (2-0). In the last match, he tied it out for Stoke by (2-2). This is a team affected by the house factor, stronger when you play in front of your fans, since in the last 30 matches he has 4 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses as a visitor, with 17 goals scored and 19 conceded, against 8 wins, 4 draws and 3 home defeats, with 26 goals scored and 17 conceded. For the championship, Leicester City had 7 points in 15 chances, after 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in their last 5 games at their stadium. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 games, but his attack has regularly scored as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches in this competition. In 11 games in the competition, he never managed to turn the scoring in the 6 games in which he suffered the first goal.
Leicester vs Manchester City Stats
Leicester City come to this game with a 2-2 draw against Stoke City, adding the sixth official game without proving the taste of defeat: goals were scored by Iborra and Mahrez. In this home game coach Claude Puel must keep the team in the usual 4-2-3-1 with Vardy being the most offensive reference of Leicester City: this player is the best finisher with 6 goals scored. We emphasize that the ” foxes ” only add up to 2 wins in 5 games played at home. For this game the coach can not count on James, Huth and Iborra, players who recover from injury.
Manchester City Team News
The visiting team is currently in 1st place with 31 points, after 10 wins and 1 draw. In the penultimate match, he won out for West Bromwich by (2-3). In the last match, won at home to Arsenal by (3-1). This is a team little affected by the house factor, that is, presents similar results at home and away, since in the last 30 games has 10 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses as a visitor, with a total of 36 goals scored and 14 conceded. Already inside the home, he won 13 victories and 2 draws, with a total of 48 goals scored and 8 conceded.
For this competition, it registers a sequence of 5 victories in the last games like visitor. His attack has been marked with great regularity, since he has always scored at least one goal in the last 10 games in this competition. This is a team that does not usually find it difficult to open the scoring chart: it scored the first goal in 9 of the last 11 games for the Barclays Premier League, of which 9 reached the interval in lead in 7 and managed to always maintain the lead until the end of 90 ‘.
Manchester City come to this round motivated by the victory over Arsenal by 3-1, adding in this way the ninth consecutive win in the league: the goals were scored by De Bruyne, Agüero and Gabriel Jesus. Usually the team led by Spanish Pep Guardiola lines in 4-3-3 privileging possession and organized attacks: De Bruyne and David Silva are the main organizers of the game, both being of great quality of pass and vision of game. Argentinian Agüero is Manchester City’s top scorer with 8 goals scored. For this game the coach does not have Otamendi, suspended, besides Mendy, Sterling, Kompany and Delph, injured.
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