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Leeds United vs Leicester City

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Elland Road

Date: 25th April 2023

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Leicester City will look to make it two league wins in a row for the first time since early February when they travel to Elland Road to face struggling Leeds United.

The hosts come into this tie looking to end their run of three straight defeats that has left them sitting top of the mini five-team table of Premier League bottom feeders.

They are currently in 16th place, one point ahead of Leicester City and just five ahead of bottom-placed Southampton. A 2-1 defeat to Fulham last time out did not help their survival chances either with Javi Garcia’s side the team with the fourth-worst defence in the league after conceding 56 goals.

They will return to Elland Road for this game and will be desperate to avoid a repeat of their two most recent results here: 5-1 and 6-1 defeats to Crystal Palace and Liverpool, respectively.

Meanwhile, Leicester City won their first three points under Dean Smith last time with a huge 2-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at the King Power Stadium. That result gave them a big leap in the relegation battle taking them out of the bottom three into the much coveted 17th place.

That win also ended a run of four consecutive losses and ten competitive games without a win for the visitors.

However, they failed to keep a clean sheet in the game, so their wait for a league clean sheet now runs for 17 games. The Foxes are the only club in Europe’s top-five leagues without a top-flight clean sheet since the World Cup.

However, they might fancy their chances of ending that run here as they have kept two clean sheets in their last two games against Leeds United. Yet, they will be confident of getting a goal at least, given that they have also suffered just one loss in the last nine head-to-head meetings (W5, D3), failing to score only once.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

December 7, 2024
Everton 01:00 Liverpool
December 26, 2024
Manchester City 13:30 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 West Ham United
Chelsea 16:00 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:00 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:30 Manchester United
Liverpool 21:00 Leicester City
December 27, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 Brentford
Arsenal 21:15 Ipswich Town
December 29, 2024
Leicester City 15:30 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 16:00 Southampton
Everton 16:00 Nottingham Forest
West Ham United 18:15 Liverpool
December 30, 2024
Aston Villa 20:45 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 20:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 21:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 +21 39
2 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 +18 35
3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 +18 33
4 Nottingham Forest 17 9 4 4 23 19 +4 31
5 AFC Bournemouth 17 8 4 5 27 21 +6 28
6 Aston Villa 17 8 4 5 26 26 +0 28
7 Manchester City 17 8 3 6 29 25 +4 27
8 Newcastle United 17 7 5 5 27 21 +6 26
9 Fulham 17 6 7 4 24 22 +2 25
10 Brighton & Hov… 17 6 7 4 27 26 +1 25
11 Tottenham Hotspur 17 7 2 8 39 25 +14 23
12 Brentford 17 7 2 8 32 32 +0 23
13 Manchester United 17 6 4 7 21 22 -1 22
14 West Ham United 17 5 5 7 22 30 -8 20
15 Everton 16 3 7 6 14 21 -7 16
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 7 7 18 26 -8 16
17 Leicester City 17 3 5 9 21 37 -16 14
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 3 11 27 40 -13 12
19 Ipswich Town 17 2 6 9 16 32 -16 12
20 Southampton 17 1 3 13 11 36 -25 6

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