Premier League: Burnley - Leicester City pre-match guide and stats

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Turf Moor (21401 seats)

Burnley have some lost ground to recover from their 18th position, and the first chance is versus Leicester City. Read more!

Insights:
  • Burnley have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Leicester City have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in Premier League

This could be an exciting match with lots of action and excitement as both sides are well recovered since they last played a game. Bring it on!

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Burnley form and stats

Burnley's struggle is real here at Turf Moor with only 7 points collected from 7 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-2. Burnley have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Burnley's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Huddersfield Town.

Prior to that, an away loss at Leeds United in the Premier League.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Burnley as they have a new game in only three days, a Premier League match thankfully also at home. Watford are visiting.

Burnley has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Burnley's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Leicester City form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Leicester City so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Leicester have lost on their last two travels.

Leicester go into this game after a win, the home game against Watford that ended 4-1. Choudhury was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.03. The defender Choudhury won 5 of 6 duels.

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Liverpool in the Premier League.

Leicester has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. Leicester have conceded 21 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent registered meeting between these contenders is the Leicester City - Burnley 2-2 played previously this season. Burnley-Leicester City H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Burnley three wins, Leicester City four wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Leicester CityJ. Vardy
J. Vardy
9 goals
BurnleyG. Cornet
G. Cornet
6 goals
Leicester CityJ. Maddison
J. Maddison
5 goals

Burnley missing players

Leicester City missing players

Burnley Leicester City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 7 3 Played P 3 9 18
1 1 1 Won W 1 2 7
8 4 1 Drew D 2 3 4
8 2 1 Lost L 0 4 7
16 8 7 Scored S 5 15 31
27 8 6 Conceded C 4 21 33
82% 71% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
47% 43% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 89% 72%
41% 29% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 44% 44%
6% 14% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 22%
59% 57% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 67%
18% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
41% 43% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 17%
 
4.5 6 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.7 4.8
6.9 5.9 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.9 6.4
2.1 2.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.6 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.9 13.6 14.3 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 11.2 11.7
3.5 4 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 4 4.6
27% 29% 39% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 38%
 
16.9 13.6 14.7 Shots against (avg) S A 15.7 16.1 15.9
4.8 4.1 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 5.2 5.2
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Leicester City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Burnley have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Leicester City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Leicester City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Leicester City have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Leicester City have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in Premier League
  • 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 Manchester City 21 17 2 2 53 13 10 8 1 1 31 6 11 9 1 1 22 7 40 53
2 Chelsea 21 12 7 2 45 16 11 5 5 1 25 10 10 7 2 1 20 6 29 43
3 Liverpool 20 12 6 2 52 18 9 6 3 0 22 6 11 6 3 2 30 12 34 42
4 Arsenal 20 11 2 7 33 25 10 7 1 2 18 8 10 4 1 5 15 17 8 35
5 West Ham United 20 10 4 6 37 27 9 4 2 3 18 15 11 6 2 3 19 12 10 34
6 Tottenham Hotspur 18 10 3 5 23 20 10 7 1 2 16 10 8 3 2 3 7 10 3 33
7 Manchester United 19 9 4 6 30 27 10 5 1 4 17 15 9 4 3 2 13 12 3 31
8 Wolverhampton Wanderers 19 8 4 7 14 14 9 3 2 4 5 7 10 5 2 3 9 7 0 28
9 Brighton & Hove Albion 19 6 9 4 20 20 9 3 3 3 8 9 10 3 6 1 12 11 0 27
10 Leicester City 18 7 4 7 31 33 9 5 1 3 16 12 9 2 3 4 15 21 -2 25
11 Crystal Palace 20 5 8 7 29 30 11 4 5 2 20 12 9 1 3 5 9 18 -1 23
12 Brentford 19 6 5 8 23 26 10 4 1 5 12 12 9 2 4 3 11 14 -3 23
13 Aston Villa 19 7 1 11 25 30 9 4 1 4 15 14 10 3 0 7 10 16 -5 22
14 Southampton 19 4 9 6 20 29 9 2 6 1 9 8 10 2 3 5 11 21 -9 21
15 Everton 18 5 4 9 23 32 9 4 1 4 15 16 9 1 3 5 8 16 -9 19
16 Leeds United 19 4 7 8 21 37 10 3 4 3 13 16 9 1 3 5 8 21 -16 19
17 Watford 18 4 1 13 22 36 10 2 1 7 11 22 8 2 0 6 11 14 -14 13
18 Burnley 17 1 8 8 16 27 7 1 4 2 8 8 10 0 4 6 8 19 -11 11
19 Newcastle United 19 1 8 10 19 42 10 1 5 4 13 22 9 0 3 6 6 20 -23 11
20 Norwich City 19 2 4 13 8 42 10 1 2 7 5 19 9 1 2 6 3 23 -34 10

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The English Premier League is the top level of the English football league pyramid. 20 teams play 38 fixtures each to see who tops the Premier League table. The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world. Seasons run from August to May with most games on Saturdays and Sundays.