The Championship league table tells the truth about these teams to this date, with Leicester City ahead of Stoke City by 17 points. Tipsway previews the game:
- Leicester City have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Championship
- Stoke City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Leicester and Stoke City.
Leicester City form and stats
Leicester City have collected 12 points from their Championship home games so far after 4-0-1. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.
A nice win for Leicester City last time playing, versus Preston North End. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-0 with Iheanacho and Dewsbury-Hall (2) scoring for the victors. Dewsbury-Hall (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 9.44/10. Dewsbury-Hall scored two goals, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 37 successful passes (of 39 total).
In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting Blackburn Rovers.Leicester have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at King Power Stadium with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Leicester City are not conceding a lot of goals here at King Power Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.
Stoke City form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Stoke's previous game was their home loss versus Southampton (0-1). Attacker Léris got a player rating of 7.34 in the game. "Man of the match" Léris hit three key passes.
Prior to that result Stoke City won their away game at Bristol City. The scoreline was 3-2.Stoke struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 8 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Leicester City have not lost in the last 7 matches (3-4-0) facing Stoke City.Top Goalscorers
  K. Dewsbury-Hall 5 goals |  K. McAteer 4 goals |   A. Cunha Vidigal 4 goals |
Leicester City missing players
Stoke City missing players
| Leicester City | Stoke City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 60% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 60% | 50% |
| 5.4 | 7.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.8 | 6.8 |
| 5.3 | 3.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.8 | 5 |
| 2.5 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.2 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15.2 | 16.8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 13 | 13.5 |
| 5.3 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.6 | 3 |
| 40% | 32% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 37% |
| 11.9 | 9.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.5 | 15 | 12 |
| 3.4 | 3.2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 6.6 | 5.1 |
- Leicester City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Leicester City have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Championship
- Leicester City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Championship
- Leicester City have the most scored goals in the second half (13) in Championship
- Leicester City have the the best goal difference (+15) in Championship
- Leicester City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Leicester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Stoke City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Stoke City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Stoke 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 | Leicester City | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 27 |
| 2 | Ipswich Town | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | Preston North End | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
| 4 | Sunderland | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 19 |
| 5 | West Bromwich Albion | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Leeds United | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 7 | Norwich City | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Cardiff City | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 16 |
| 9 | Hull City | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 10 | Southampton | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 12 | Birmingham City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 15 |
| 13 | Coventry City | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 14 |
| 14 | Millwall | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 14 |
| 15 | Swansea City | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| 16 | Plymouth Argyle | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 17 | Middlesbrough | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 11 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 19 | Huddersfield Town | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 20 | Blackburn Rovers | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 21 | Watford | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| 22 | Queens Park Rangers | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -8 | 8 |
| 23 | Rotherham United | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 | -12 | 5 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 2 |
- Leicester City
- Leicester Mercury - (local newspaper)
- Stoke City
- StokeonTrent Live - (local newspaper)
