📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 Championship success over Norwich City.

In that match, Leicester City managed 65% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Leicester City, the goals were scored by Bobby De Cordova-Reid (75') and Jordan James (92'). For their opponents, Norwich City got 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Mathias Kvistgaarden (62') was the scorer for Norwich City.

It has been all too rare in recent times that Leicester City have shown defensive steel. In fact, Leicester City have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals during that time. Having said that, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend will be sustained in this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Leicester City:

• haven't lost in the league to Stoke City in their previous 8 games. A decent run, indeed.
• are without a win at home for the past 5 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Stoke City

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Coventry City in Championship competition, Stoke City and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Stoke City had 47% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Coventry City had 17 shots at goal with 3 on target. Ephron Mason-Clark (86') was the scorer for Coventry City.

A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Stoke City has been noticeable of late. Examining their last six outings shows that it’s occurred 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 4 and Stoke City have scored 10.

A look at their previous results shows us that Stoke City:

• haven't won against Leicester City when they've played them away from home in the last 4 matches in the league. Not good at all.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on past results between these clubs stretching back to 01/04/2017 tells us that these encounters have been disappointments for Stoke City. They have not managed to get any victories whatsoever whereas Leicester City have been too good for them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those ties.

A sum of 19 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 16 of them from The Foxes and 3 created by The Potters. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league fixture between these sides was Championship match day 30 on 03/02/2024 when the final score was Stoke City 0-5 Leicester City.

In that match, Stoke City managed 42% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

For their opponents, Leicester City got 16 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Patson Daka (26', 66'), Kasey McAteer (30') and Jamie Vardy (73', 98') scored.

The referee was Lewis Smith.

📰 Team News: Leicester City

It looks as if The Foxes will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Asmir Begovic, Ricardo Pereira, Jannik Vestergaard, Wout Faes, Luke Thomas, Harry Winks, Oliver Skipp, Issahaku Fatawu, Jordan James, Jordan Ayew and Patson Daka.

ℹ️ Team News: Stoke City

We believe The Potters might play in a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Aaron Cresswell, Ben Pearson, Tomas Rigo, Million Manhoef, Joon-ho Bae, Sorba Thomas and Divin Mubama.

💭 Prediction

Stoke City have it in them to break down this Leicester City outfit, although that possibly won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re tipping a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Leicester City by the conclusion of the game. Hopefully this is a good one.

Peter Guest, 14:02 22/11/2025