Leicester W vs Manchester City W: Soccer match preview

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Competition: England Women's Super League
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: King Power Stadium (32312 seats)

The visiting Manchester City W side are probably front runners at Leicester W, as the visitors enjoy a 20 point lead from their eleven league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Leicester W have the fewest scored goals (5) in Women's Super League
  • Manchester City W have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

This should be an entertaining fixture with lots of action and energy as both sides are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!

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Leicester W form and stats

Leicester W's struggle is real here at King Power Stadium with only 3 points collected from 6 Women's Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-0-5.

The home followers witnessed a 2-2 draw against Reading W in the FA Cup Women last time out and are looking for a win here.

Before that fixture, a home loss in the League Cup Women against Manchester City W.

It should be added that a look at the 10 latest league games reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Leicester W here at King Power Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 6 games). As for conceded goals, Leicester's unpleasant statistic is 17 goals surrendered. When Leicester W hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Reading W, Liverpool W and Brighton W), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Manchester City W form and stats

Manchester City W have an excellent away record in the Women's Super League so far with 4-0-2 from 6 games. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Manchester City W's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Chelsea W game.

The supporters enjoyed Manchester's previous fixture versus Sheffield Utd W, a FA Cup Women win (7-0) played at home.

Ahead of that, the League Cup Women victory away at Bristol City W.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Manchester City W manager Taylor as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Arsenal W.

Manchester have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The 9 most recent games featuring these sides have all ended as Manchester City W wins. Are we destined for another one?

The dueling parties have battled earlier this season: Manchester City W - Leicester W 4-0.

Top Goalscorers

Manchester City WK. Shaw
K. Shaw
9 goals
Manchester City WL. Coombs
L. Coombs
4 goals
Manchester City WJ. Blakstad
J. Blakstad
2 goals

Leicester W missing players

Manchester City W missing players

Leicester W Manchester City W
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 6 3 Played P 1 6 11
1 1 0 Won W 1 4 7
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
9 5 3 Lost L 0 2 2
5 4 0 Scored S 3 12 23
25 17 13 Conceded C 0 7 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 83% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 91%
60% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 64%
30% 33% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 27%
10% 17% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 9%
20% 17% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 55%
10% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 36%
70% 67% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 9%
 
2.6 2.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 7.8 7.4
4.3 4.8 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 2.8 3.1
1.2 1 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 0.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.6 5.4 5 Shots (avg) S ( 20 13.7 14.2
2.6 3.2 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5.7 5.4
9% 6% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 35% 39%
 
11.7 11.6 14.7 Shots against (avg) S A 3 6 6.5
5.3 6.8 9 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2.3 2.5
Key stats in Women's Super League this season:
  • Leicester W have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Leicester W have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Leicester W have the fewest scored goals (5) in Women's Super League
  • Leicester W have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Women's Super League
  • Leicester W have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Women's Super League
  • Leicester W have the most conceded goals (17) at home in Women's Super League
  • Leicester W have the the worst goal difference (-13) at home in Women's Super League
  • Leicester W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Manchester City W have created more than twice as many corners as Leicester W.
  • Manchester City W have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Manchester City W have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Manchester City W have scored more than double the goals of Leicester W.
  • Manchester City W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Manchester City W 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 United W 11 9 1 1 31 6 5 4 0 1 20 3 6 5 1 0 11 3 25 28
2 Chelsea W 11 9 1 1 32 9 5 5 0 0 14 4 6 4 1 1 18 5 23 28
3 Arsenal W 10 8 1 1 26 6 6 4 1 1 15 5 4 4 0 0 11 1 20 25
4 Manchester City W 11 7 2 2 23 11 5 3 2 0 11 4 6 4 0 2 12 7 12 23
5 Everton W 11 6 0 5 16 12 6 3 0 3 9 10 5 3 0 2 7 2 4 18
6 Aston Villa W 11 5 1 5 16 21 6 3 0 3 11 12 5 2 1 2 5 9 -5 16
7 West Ham W 12 5 0 7 15 22 6 3 0 3 9 10 6 2 0 4 6 12 -7 15
8 Tottenham W 10 3 0 7 12 19 4 1 0 3 1 8 6 2 0 4 11 11 -7 9
9 Liverpool W 10 2 2 6 11 22 5 2 0 3 4 7 5 0 2 3 7 15 -11 8
10 Reading W 12 2 1 9 14 27 6 2 1 3 6 9 6 0 0 6 8 18 -13 7
11 Brighton W 9 2 1 6 11 32 4 1 1 2 5 14 5 1 0 4 6 18 -21 7
12 Leicester W 10 1 0 9 5 25 6 1 0 5 4 17 4 0 0 4 1 8 -20 3

Read more about Women's Super League

The FA Women’s Super League (FA WSL) is the highest level of women’s football in England. It has been through numerous format changes since its first season in 2011. Eleven teams play 20 fixtures to create the final league table and decide who are champions.