Leicester City vs Manchester United; Premier League
Leicester City vs Manchester United. Premier League.
The King Power Stadium.
Leicester City 0
- J Evans (sent off 94th minute)
Manchester United 2
- B Fernandes (71st minute pen)
- J Lingard (98th minute)
Leicester vs Man Utd preview, team news, prediction, kick-off, channel
Watch Leicester vs Manchester United from 3pm on Sunday live on Sky Sports Main Event; kick off 4pm
Saturday 25 July 2020 11:36, UK
Team news, stats and prediction ahead of Leicester vs Man Utd in the Premier League on Sunday (kick-off 4pm).
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Team news
Brendan Rodgers has no fresh injury worries ahead of Leicester's crucial clash with Manchester United.
James Maddison (hip) and Ben Chilwell (foot) are sidelined having missed the last few games as the Foxes chase Champions League qualification.
Christian Fuchs is out for around three months with a hip problem, with teenager Luke Thomas set to continue on the left and Caglar Soyuncu is banned.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will give Eric Bailly and Luke Shaw time to prove their fitness.
The former missed the midweek draw with West Ham after sustaining a head injury in the FA Cup semi-final loss to Chelsea, while left-back Shaw has missed three matches with an ankle complaint.
Phil Jones and Axel Tuanzebe are the only players definitely out of Sunday's trip to the King Power Stadium.
How to follow
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Charlie's prediction
If I'm being honest in the way the league's worked out, they're not my teams but I've got great respect for the way this head-to-head has worked out. I did Manchester United on Wednesday and thought they were awful. Even with the speed and movement up front, I thought Paul Pogba was poor, Bruno Fernandes had his worst game and looked like he was running on empty.
Then I look at Leicester - and to be fair to them, they probably deserve the top four for what they've done this season - but of course, you don't do it in the early part of the season, you do it now. They do look stretched, really stretched. Everything is geared towards looking at Jamie Vardy, they're missing James Maddison. United have that cushion, so Leicester have to go for the win, which doesn't change a lot for Brendan Rodgers, but they'll want to keep it tight for the first half hour and then see how the land lies.
Manchester United know how to get a result from a game like this, though. I think it'll be tense and dramatic, but I think they'll get there, they'll get a draw.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 1-1 (11/2 with Sky Bet)
Opta stats
- Leicester have won just one of their 13 Premier League home games against Manchester United (D4 L8), beating them 5-3 in September 2014.
- Leicester have lost just one of their last 12 final league games of the season (W7 D4, excluding play-offs), losing 4-5 at Spurs in 2017-18.
- Leicester are averaging just 1.1 points-per-game in the Premier League since the restart (9 points from 8 games), compared to 1.8 points-per-game this season before the enforced break (53 points from 29 games).
- Should he start, Harry Maguire would become the first Man Utd outfield player since Gary Pallister in 1994-95 to start every game in a Premier League campaign for United.
