Team news, stats and prediction ahead of Leicester vs Spurs in the Premier League on Wednesday; kick-off 7.30pm.

Team news

Leicester will have several players back in contention when they host Tottenham in what will be the Foxes' first Premier League game of 2022.

Postponements because of coronavirus have meant the FA Cup third-round win against Watford on January 8 is the only match Brendan Rodgers' team have played this year. However, the break has given Patson Daka, James Justin, Caglar Soyuncu, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas the time they needed to fully recover from injuries, while Boubakary Soumare and Ayoze Perez are both fit again after illness.

Jamie Vardy (hamstring), Jonny Evans (hamstring), Timothy Castagne (thigh), Ryan Bertrand (knee) and Ricardo Pereira (broken leg) remain out and Kelechi Iheanacho, Daniel Amartey, Wilfred Ndidi and Nampalys Mendy are at the Africa Cup of Nations.

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Leicester provisional squad: Schmeichel, Jakupovic, Stolarczyk, Albrighton, Vestergaard, Justin, Soyuncu, Thomas, Dewsbury-Hall, Tielemans, Choudhury, Maddison, Perez, Lookman, Soumare, Nelson, McAteer, Daley-Campbell, Daka.

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Tottenham are still without three key players. Eric Dier (calf), Cristian Romero (hamstring) and Son Heung-min (muscle) are all injured, while there is one Covid problem in the camp.

Steven Bergwijn is back in contention after not playing since Boxing Day.

Tottenham provisional squad: Lloris, Gollini, Emerson, Sanchez, Tanganga, Doherty, Davies, Rodon, Sessegnon, Hojbjerg, Ndombele, Winks, Skipp, Alli, Moura, Gil, Kane, Bergwijn, Scarlett.

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Jones Knows

Leicester's attack is purring, and I'm keen on giving them plenty of my faith in the second half of the season, starting in this game where the 2/1 with Sky Bet for a home win is worth following. The Foxes have scored 27 goals in their last 11 games across all competitions and that has included fixtures against Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea.

Antonio Conte has made Tottenham a tougher nut to crack, but organisational levels have been hit by the absence of Eric Dier, who looks to be an important player for Conte playing at the heart of the defence. Leicester have selection issues in defence, but have the quality and current form in their frontline to create big chances against the north Londoners.

Few players are in better form right now than James Maddison and his chances of scoring are worth adding into the home win bet. Playing in his favoured role off the front, he has scored in four of his last five appearances.

SCORE PREDICTION: 2-1

BETTING ANGLE: Leicester to win and James Maddison to score (11/2 with Sky Bet)

Opta facts

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• Leicester have won two of their last four Premier League games against Tottenham (L2), as many as they had in their previous 12 against them (D3 L7).
• Tottenham won this exact fixture 4-2 in May last season, last winning back-to-back away league games against Leicester in October 2003/December 2014.
• Since Leicester returned to the Premier League in 2014, their 14 meetings with Tottenham have produced 54 goals - only Arsenal vs Liverpool (62), Crystal Palace vs Liverpool (55) and Crystal Palace vs West Ham (55) have seen more goals scored in the competition in that time.
• Leicester have won 38% of their Premier League games played on Wednesdays (20/53), the Foxes' best win rate on a specific day of the week in the competition's history.
• Tottenham have lost four of their last five Premier League away games played on Wednesdays (W1), more than they had in their previous 15 such games in the competition (W10 D2 L3).
• Leicester have won their last three Premier League home games, their longest winning run at home since a run of seven between August-December 2019. However, two of their three home league defeats this season have been against London sides (0-2 vs Arsenal, 0-3 vs Chelsea).
• Tottenham have scored just seven goals in eight away league games this season (0.9 per game), compared to an average of 1.7 per game last season (33 in 19). Indeed, it took Spurs just 97 minutes (excluding stoppage time) to score seven Premier League away goals last season.
• Tottenham are unbeaten in all eight of their Premier League games under Antonio Conte, the best unbeaten start for a Spurs manager in their league history (W5 D3). Only two managers to join a Premier League club during a season have had longer unbeaten starts - Ole Gunnar Solskjær at Manchester United in 2018-19 (12) and Thomas Tuchel with Chelsea last season (10).
• In his entire club career, Tottenham's Harry Kane has scored more goals against Leicester in all competitions than he has versus any other side (17 in 16 games). 11 of these have come in his last eight appearances against them, including a four-goal haul at the King Power Stadium in May 2018.
• Leicester midfielder James Maddison has been directly involved in seven goals in his last six Premier League appearances (4 goals, 3 assists), more than he had in his previous 26 games in the competition combined (3 goals, 3 assists).

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