Leicester City and Liverpool are back in action this week just a few days after they clashed in an EFL classic. Leicester will be and the home fans at King Power stadium will be looking to make amends on 28th December 2021 at 23:00 EAT.
Leicester City in the 10th place with 22 points after the 17 league matches. The home team continues to go through an up and down season – they’ve been unable to string more than two league wins together and they’ve only managed that once.
Brendan Rodgers’s men will be looking to return to the winning ways here following 6-3 Premier League loss in their previous game to Manchester City. In that game, Leicester City had 28% possession, 14 shots with eight on target and goals were scored by James Maddison (55′), Ademola Lookman (59′) and Kelechi Iheanacho (65′). Manchester City got 17 shots with nine of them on target and goals by Kevin De Bruyne (5′), Riyad Mahrez (14′), İlkay Gündoğan (21′), Raheem Sterling (25′, 87′) and Aymeric Laporte (69′).
Meanwhile, high flying Liverpool is in the second place with 41 points and they will be looking to reduce the six point’s gap left by Manchester City. The Reds’ 2-2 stalemate versus Tottenham Hotspur on December 19 ended their six-game winning run in the Premier League and eight-game winning streak across all competitions, with those two dropped points seeing them level with Chelsea having played a game fewer.
Liverpool hasn’t played another game since the 5-4 (AP) Qualifiers fixture last week. In that match, Liverpool had 66% possession, 21 shots with five of them on target and goals scored by Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain 19’, Diogo Jota 68’, and Takumi Minamino 90+53’. Leicester got eight shots with seven of them on target and goals scored by Jamie Vardy (9’, 13’), and James Maddison (33’).
Leicester City vs Liverpool head to head
Liverpool has a good record in the head to head matches against Leicester City having won in 18 out the 33 matches played since 1994. Leicester has nine wins and six matches played out draws.
- Liverpool 5-4 Leicester 22/12/21
- Leicester 3-1 Liverpool 13/02/21
- Liverpool 3-0 Leicester 22/11/20
- Leicester 0-4 Liverpool 26/12/19
- Liverpool 2-1 Leicester 05/10/19
Home
- Man City 6-3 Leicester
- Liverpool 5-4 Leicester
- Leicester 4-0 Newcastle
- Napoli 3-2 Leicester
- Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester
Away
- Liverpool 5-4 Leicester
- Tottenham 2-2 Liverpool
- Liverpool 3-1 Newcastle
- Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
- Milan 1-2 Liverpool
Leicester team news
The home team will miss out the services of Wesley Fofana, James Justin, Jonny Evans, Ricardo Caglar Soyuncu, Patson Daka, Harvey Barnes and Ryan Bertrand who are all recovering from injuries.
Liverpool team news
As for Liverpool, Harvey Elliott, Adrian, Nat Phillips and Divock Origi continue their recoveries from respective injury problems, while Andy Robertson is still suspended and will miss out this fixture.
Prediction and odds
We predict a straight win for the Reds. A fatigued and injury-hit Leicester side on a sticky spell of form facing a refreshed and near-full strength Liverpool outfit.
- Liverpool Win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both teams to score
