Shaky top table potboiler in Championship as Bristol City have come the 124 miles necessary to duel with Leicester City at their King Power Stadium.
- Leicester City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Bristol City have not yet lost a game away.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Leicester City form and stats
Leicester City have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Championship. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
A good away victory last time out for Leicester City, who won 2-0 against Norwich City (placed 5th). Faes, defender, was given a rating of 7.84/10 in that game, top of the team. Faes won 8 of 9 duels.
Before that match, a win away at Southampton.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Leicester City matches with similar probabilities have ended with 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat (from 5 games).
The manager Maresca will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Liverpool in only four days.
The Leicester fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 3 matches.
Bristol City form and stats
Bristol City are happy with their away performances in the Championship so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels.
The followers enjoyed Bristol City's previous fixture versus Plymouth Argyle (placed 18th), a 4-1 win played at home. Midfielder James was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.7. James scored one goal and had 36 successful passes (of 40 total).
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against West Bromwich Albion.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Bristol City when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 6 matches with the visitors losing 3 times, drawing 0 and winning 3 games.
Bristol find the net regularly in their away games. 4 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Bristol City as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Leicester City victories, two draws and four Bristol City wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. McAteer 4 goals |   S. Bell 3 goals |  K. Dewsbury-Hall 2 goals |
Leicester City missing players
Bristol City missing players
| Leicester City | Bristol City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 5 | 7.7 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 6.3 | 5 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16.1 | 18.7 | 21 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 19 | 16.3 | 13.4 |
| 5.4 | 4.7 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 3.7 | 3.1 |
| 34% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 36% | 41% |
| 13.1 | 12.3 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.7 | 11.7 |
| 4 | 4.7 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 9 | 5 | 3.7 |
- Bristol City have not yet lost a game away.
- Bristol City have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Leicester City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Leicester City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Leicester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Preston North End | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 |
| 2 | Leicester City | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 3 | Ipswich Town | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 |
| 4 | Sunderland | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | Hull City | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 7 | Bristol City | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Birmingham City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 9 | Leeds United | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 10 | Cardiff City | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| 11 | Millwall | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Blackburn Rovers | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 10 |
| 13 | Southampton | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Watford | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 15 | West Bromwich Albion | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 16 | Huddersfield Town | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 17 | Coventry City | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| 18 | Plymouth Argyle | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 7 |
| 19 | Stoke City | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 20 | Queens Park Rangers | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 21 | Rotherham United | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -9 | 4 |
| 22 | Swansea City | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
| 23 | Sheffield Wednesday | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 2 |
| 24 | Middlesbrough | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 2 |
- Leicester City
- Leicester Mercury - (local newspaper)
- Bristol City
- Bristol Live - (local newspaper)
