National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Leicester W or Manchester City W that keep their silverware dream alive.
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 W form and stats
Leicester W was eliminated in the semi-finals last season in the League Cup Women.The story so far in the Wsl 1 Women for Leicester W at their home stadium (Pirelli Stadium) is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats. This match is a League Cup Women match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss in this competition.
The fans are hoping that Leicester will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Wsl 1 Women game against Reading W.
Before that, Leicester W had a Wsl 1 Women home game versus Birmingham W which ended with a victory 2-0.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Leicester W had similar winning odds as today, and found five games. In these, the hosts won one, drew zero and lost four. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Leicester W lost four similar games by at least two goals.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Leicester W, as the Wsl 1 Women home game vs Brighton W is only four days away.
Leicester have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot.
Manchester City W form and stats
Manchester was sent out of League Cup Women in the quarter-finals last season.Manchester City W's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Manchester City W collect 13 points from their 6 away matches in the Wsl 1 Women. 4 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the League Cup Women stats, they have 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Manchester play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 6-0 victory visiting Brighton W. As mentioned above, Manchester City W was the only team on the pitch versus Brighton W in their previous game, winning 6-0. This could be a tougher task.
Preceding that game was the away Wsl 1 Women victory against Birmingham W with the score of 3-2.As mentioned earlier, Manchester will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 15 wins (13 by two or more goals winning margin), zero draws and zero surprising defeats.
Manchester have another game away in just three nights, a Wsl 1 Women match against Aston Villa W. A grim diary for the guests!
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Manchester alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (19 from 6 played). As for defending, Manchester City W rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last five meetings: zero - zero - five (Leicester W wins - draws - Manchester City W wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Hemp 5 goals |  G. Stanway 3 goals | H. Raso 3 goals |
Leicester W missing players
Manchester City W missing players
| Leicester W | Manchester City W | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 15 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 14 | 5 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 32 | 15 | Scored | S | 25 | 67 | ||
| 40 | 13 | Conceded | C | 13 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 88% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 60% | 56% | ||
| 16% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 10% | 20% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 8.2 | ||
| 5.7 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 3 | ||
| 1.4 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10.3 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 13.4 | ||
| 4.4 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 6.6 | ||
| 29% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 41% | ||
| 10.3 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.8 | 6.2 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 2.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester United W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Manchester City W | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Leicester W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Durham W | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 |
| 5 | Everton W | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Arsenal W | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Chelsea W | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 21 | 21 |
| 3 | Tottenham W | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 4 | Manchester United W | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 5 | Manchester City W | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 16 |
| 6 | Reading W | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 | Brighton W | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -3 | 15 |
| 8 | West Ham W | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 13 |
| 9 | Everton W | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -7 | 11 |
| 10 | Aston Villa W | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | -16 | 10 |
| 11 | Birmingham W | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 | -20 | 4 |
| 11 | Leicester City W | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Leicester W | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 14 | -19 | 3 |
