Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Leicester City preview

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sun 20.February
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Molineux Stadium (30852 seats)

Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City have both played out a "par" performance up to now, to use a golf phrase. Both occupy mid-table spots in the Premier League.

Insights:
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Premier League
  • Leicester City have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier League

The visiting Leicester City played their last game only three days ago, a Europa Conference League match.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers form and stats

The story so far in the Premier League for Wolverhampton Wanderers at their home stadium (Molineux Stadium) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.

A good away victory last time out for Wolverhampton Wanderers, who won 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur (placed 8th). Goalkeeper Sá got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.71 out of ten. Sá topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Arsenal (0-1).

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

The manager Nascimento will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Arsenal in only four days.

Wolverhampton Wanderers aren't scoring a lot here at Molineux Stadium in the league, with only 8 goals from 11 games. Wolverhampton Wanderers have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Leicester City form and stats

There's been little loot from Leicester City's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Leicester City only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 3 draws. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Leicester City's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Midfield player Dewsbury-Hall was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.3/10. Dewsbury-Hall scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 45 successful passes (of 49 total).

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against West Ham United in the Premier League.

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

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Europa Conference League trip to Randers.

Leicester City are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 10 away games so far. Leicester City have conceded 23 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have played each other before in this season, with the final score Leicester City - Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 registered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Wolves victories, four draws and four Leicester City wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Leicester CityJ. Vardy
J. Vardy
9 goals
Leicester CityJ. Maddison
J. Maddison
6 goals
Leicester CityY. Tielemans
Y. Tielemans
6 goals

Wolverhampton Wanderers missing players

Leicester City missing players

Wolverhampton Wanderers Leicester City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 4 10 22
11 4 1 Won W 0 2 7
4 2 0 Drew D 2 3 6
8 5 1 Lost L 2 5 9
21 8 3 Scored S 6 15 36
17 9 2 Conceded C 8 23 41
87% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
43% 36% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
22% 27% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 68%
9% 9% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 45%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 23%
26% 27% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 90% 68%
39% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
48% 64% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 10% 18%
 
4.3 4.1 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.8 4.8
5.7 5.4 7 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 6.9 6.3
1.8 1.6 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.3 11.8 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 10.6 11.6
3.6 3.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.7 4.2
25% 20% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 41% 39%
 
12.4 10.7 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14 16.7 16.4
4.3 3.9 7.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 5.8 5.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Leicester City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • 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 the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier League
  • Leicester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Premier League

  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 25 20 3 2 61 14 12 10 1 1 34 6 13 10 2 1 27 8 47 63
2 Liverpool 24 16 6 2 61 19 11 8 3 0 27 6 13 8 3 2 34 13 42 54
3 Chelsea 24 13 8 3 48 18 12 6 5 1 27 10 12 7 3 2 21 8 30 47
4 Manchester United 25 12 7 6 40 32 13 7 2 4 21 16 12 5 5 2 19 16 8 43
5 West Ham United 25 12 5 8 44 33 12 6 2 4 23 18 13 6 3 4 21 15 11 41
6 Arsenal 22 12 3 7 34 25 11 7 2 2 18 8 11 5 1 5 16 17 9 39
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 23 11 4 8 21 17 11 4 2 5 8 9 12 7 2 3 13 8 4 37
8 Tottenham Hotspur 22 11 3 8 28 29 12 7 1 4 18 15 10 4 2 4 10 14 -1 36
9 Brighton & Hove Albion 24 7 12 5 25 25 11 3 5 3 10 11 13 4 7 2 15 14 0 33
10 Southampton 24 6 11 7 30 37 11 3 7 1 14 10 13 3 4 6 16 27 -7 29
11 Leicester City 22 7 6 9 36 41 12 5 3 4 21 18 10 2 3 5 15 23 -5 27
12 Aston Villa 23 8 3 12 31 36 11 4 3 4 20 19 12 4 0 8 11 17 -5 27
13 Crystal Palace 24 5 11 8 32 35 12 4 5 3 21 15 12 1 6 5 11 20 -3 26
14 Brentford 25 6 6 13 26 40 13 4 2 7 14 17 12 2 4 6 12 23 -14 24
15 Leeds United 23 5 8 10 27 46 11 3 4 4 13 17 12 2 4 6 14 29 -19 23
16 Everton 22 6 4 12 28 38 11 5 1 5 18 17 11 1 3 7 10 21 -10 22
17 Newcastle United 23 4 9 10 25 44 13 3 6 4 18 24 10 1 3 6 7 20 -19 21
18 Norwich City 24 4 5 15 14 50 13 2 3 8 8 25 11 2 2 7 6 25 -36 17
19 Watford 23 4 3 16 23 43 12 2 1 9 11 27 11 2 2 7 12 16 -20 15
20 Burnley 21 1 11 9 17 29 10 1 6 3 9 10 11 0 5 6 8 19 -12 14

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