Evenly matched teams: Leeds United vs Leicester City match preview

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sun 07.November
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Elland Road (39460 seats)

Leeds United hope to sell many tickets for this game despite that the season has been gruelling so far with 10 points and a 17th position in the Premier League table. Visiting Leicester City hold 11th place with 14 pts.

Insights:
  • Leeds United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Leicester City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Leicester City could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago.

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Leeds United form and stats

The overall Premier League results playing at home this season for Leeds United are 1-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).

A good away victory last time out for Leeds United, who won 2-1 against Norwich City (placed 20th). The forward Raphinha was declared "man of the match" for Leeds United with the rating of 8.15/10. Raphinha scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 5 of 8 times.

Prior to that, an away loss at Arsenal in the Carabao Cup.

This is expected to be a close game, with Leeds United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Leeds United as a small favourite), we find five games. Leeds United has won zero of these, drawn one and lost four.

Leeds has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Leeds defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Leicester City form and stats

The visitors are W2-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.

Leicester's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Spartak Moskva that finished 1-1. Jonny Evans was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.82. The defender Evans won 3 of 4 duels.

The game before that, in the Premier League, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Arsenal.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Leicester City in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Leicester, two draws and four defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Leicester's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. For Leicester, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Leeds wins - draws - Leicester City wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Leicester CityJ. Vardy
J. Vardy
7 goals
LeedsR. Dias Belloli
R. Dias Belloli
4 goals
Leicester CityY. Tielemans
Y. Tielemans
3 goals

Leeds United missing players

Leicester City missing players

Leeds United Leicester City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 5 10
2 1 0 Won W 1 2 4
4 2 2 Drew D 0 1 2
4 2 0 Lost L 0 2 4
10 5 3 Scored S 2 8 15
17 8 3 Conceded C 1 10 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
50% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 70%
20% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 40%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
70% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 70%
10% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
4.2 5.4 7 Corners for (avg) C F 9 4.6 5.2
5.6 5.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 9 6.6 5.7
2.3 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
14 16.2 18 Shots (avg) S ( 10 9.8 12.4
4 4 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.6 4.8
25% 25% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 44% 31%
 
15.9 16.2 12 Shots against (avg) S A 16 16.6 15.9
5.3 5.4 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4.8 5.2
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Leicester City's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Leeds United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Leeds United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Leeds United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • 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 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 Chelsea 10 8 1 1 26 3 5 4 0 1 16 2 5 4 1 0 10 1 23 25
2 Liverpool 10 6 4 0 29 8 5 2 3 0 10 5 5 4 1 0 19 3 21 22
3 Manchester City 10 6 2 2 20 6 5 3 1 1 12 2 5 3 1 1 8 4 14 20
4 West Ham United 10 6 2 2 20 11 5 2 1 2 9 7 5 4 1 0 11 4 9 20
5 Manchester United 10 5 2 3 19 15 5 2 1 2 10 9 5 3 1 1 9 6 4 17
6 Arsenal 10 5 2 3 12 13 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 2 1 2 3 7 -1 17
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 10 5 1 4 11 10 5 2 0 3 4 6 5 3 1 1 7 4 1 16
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 10 4 4 2 11 11 5 2 1 2 5 7 5 2 3 0 6 4 0 16
9 Tottenham Hotspur 10 5 0 5 9 16 5 3 0 2 4 7 5 2 0 3 5 9 -7 15
10 Everton 10 4 2 4 16 16 5 3 0 2 10 8 5 1 2 2 6 8 0 14
11 Leicester City 10 4 2 4 15 17 5 2 1 2 7 7 5 2 1 2 8 10 -2 14
12 Brentford 10 3 3 4 12 12 5 1 1 3 6 7 5 2 2 1 6 5 0 12
13 Crystal Palace 10 2 6 2 13 14 5 1 4 0 7 4 5 1 2 2 6 10 -1 12
14 Southampton 10 2 5 3 9 12 5 1 3 1 4 4 5 1 2 2 5 8 -3 11
15 Aston Villa 10 3 1 6 14 19 5 2 1 2 9 8 5 1 0 4 5 11 -5 10
16 Watford 10 3 1 6 12 18 5 1 1 3 4 11 5 2 0 3 8 7 -6 10
17 Leeds United 10 2 4 4 10 17 5 1 2 2 5 8 5 1 2 2 5 9 -7 10
18 Burnley 10 1 4 5 10 16 5 1 2 2 5 5 5 0 2 3 5 11 -6 7
19 Newcastle United 10 0 4 6 11 23 5 0 2 3 7 13 5 0 2 3 4 10 -12 4
20 Norwich City 10 0 2 8 3 25 5 0 1 4 3 10 5 0 1 4 0 15 -22 2

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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.