Leicester vs Chelsea
England – Premier League
Date: Saturday, 1 February 2020
Kick-off at 12:30 UK/ 13:30 CET
Venue: King Power Stadium (Leicester)
England – Premier League
Date: Saturday, 1 February 2020
Kick-off at 12:30 UK/ 13:30 CET
Venue: King Power Stadium (Leicester)
Team News
Leicester
Ndidi Wilfried's return to fitness is a boost for Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers, who remains without Daniel Amartey and Nampalys Mendy.
Matty James nearing a return to fitness, but unlikely to be suitable to start here.
Jamie Vardy is expected to lead the line after coming up against Aston Villa on Tuesday night, while Dennis Praet, who is an unused sub in Villa Park, is set to get the nod ahead of Youri Tielemans.
Chelsea
Tammy Abraham, Reece James and Olivier Giroud, the latter of whom has been linked with a move this month, all will be judged.
However, Frank Lampard can not call the injured trio of Marco van Ginkel, Christian Pulisic and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
After a man of the match performance in Hull, Fikayo Tomori may get the nod to start alongside Antonio Rudiger in the heart of the Chelsea defense.
Leicester City vs Chelsea head to head
Chelsea have scored eight goals in their last 5 league fixtures, manage to keep a clean sheet in the process and conceding 5. Leicester, on the other hand, has scored 11 goals and had kept no clean sheets, conceded 6.Since 2015, Blues and Foxes have met on 10 occasions in the league, with Chelsea winning 4 Leicester 2 and 4 draws.Only won 5 of their last 10 league meetings have seen more than 2.5 goals scored, with each of the last two seasons saw at least 1 played.In goalless be their last six Premier League meetings, the home side have failed to win a single game, after going to pull three of them and lost the remaining three.
Prediction
It is one that is really hard to call between two young teams are pushing hard to finish in the top four and many thought they would not be in this situation at the start of the season. Given Chelsea injury they will be hampered in this game, especially at the top, and that should even things out. Leicester struggled for momentum but the Foxes have quality in attack to make the most of the Chelsea defense leaked. Expect a high scoring, entertaining draw. 2-2.
