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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:

May 11, 2024
Fulham 12:30 Manchester City
AFC Bournemouth 15:00 Brentford
Everton 15:00 Sheffield United
Newcastle United 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Tottenham Hotspur 15:00 Burnley
West Ham United 15:00 Luton Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers 15:00 Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest 17:30 Chelsea
May 12, 2024
Manchester United 16:30 Arsenal
May 13, 2024
Aston Villa 20:00 Liverpool
May 14, 2024
Tottenham Hotspur 20:00 Manchester City
May 15, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 19:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 20:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Arsenal 36 26 5 5 88 28 +60 83
2 Manchester City 35 25 7 3 87 33 +54 82
3 Liverpool 36 23 9 4 81 38 +43 78
4 Aston Villa 36 20 7 9 73 53 +20 67
5 Tottenham Hotspur 35 18 6 11 69 58 +11 60
6 Newcastle United 35 17 5 13 78 56 +22 56
7 Chelsea 35 15 9 11 70 59 +11 54
8 Manchester United 35 16 6 13 52 55 -3 54
9 West Ham United 36 13 10 13 56 70 -14 49
10 AFC Bournemouth 36 13 9 14 52 63 -11 48
11 Brighton & Hov… 35 12 11 12 53 57 -4 47
12 Wolverhampton Wanderers 36 13 7 16 49 60 -11 46
13 Fulham 36 12 8 16 51 55 -4 44
14 Crystal Palace 36 11 10 15 49 57 -8 43
15 Everton 36 12 9 15 38 49 -11 37
16 Brentford 36 9 9 18 52 60 -8 36
17 Nottingham Forest 36 8 9 19 45 63 -18 29
18 Luton Town 36 6 8 22 49 78 -29 26
19 Burnley 36 5 9 22 39 74 -35 24
20 Sheffield United 36 3 7 26 35 100 -65 16

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