Leicester City vs Stoke City – English Premier League – Preview

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Sreya

Leicester City vs Stoke City – Leicester City hosts Stoke City at the King Power Stadium on 24th February, Saturday in a crucial English Premier League fixture.

Leicester City are eighth in the Premier League standings with thirty-five points while Stoke City are nineteenth with twenty-five points.

Neither club have won any of their previous three league games – Leicester losing to Manchester City 5-1 in their last outing, while Stoke City drew 1-1 against Brighton, but the visitors are in an extremely tricky situation as they have to win a few games to escape relegation.

Team News

Robert Huth is unfit while Shinji Okazaki has been listed as a doubt. Stephen Ireland and Peter Crouch will miss out for Stoke City due to injuries.

Leicester City Possible Starting Lineup: Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Wilfred Ndidi, Vicente Iborra, Marc Albrighton, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy.

Stoke City Possible Starting Lineup: Jack Butland, Moritz Bauer, Ryan Shawcross, Kurt Zouma, Erik Pieters, Darren Fletcher, Badou Ndiaye, Xherdan Shaquiri, Joe Allen, Eric Maxim Chopu-Moting, Mame Biram Diouf.

“We need to get back to winning because we haven’t picked up enough points in recent games. It is a good challenge to try to secure a good place in the table. For the moment seventh is Burnley and it will be tough against all these teams around us, but it is an exciting challenge.”

– Claude Puel, Leicester City.

Contributor’s Pick 

According to Leicester City vs Stoke City H2H Stats, the last five matches between these two clubs have resulted in three draws and two wins for Leicester City. In fact, Leicester City last lost to Stoke City in the 2014/15 Premier League season.

Stoke have lost six of their last seven away matches in the Premier League and have a difficult task today. A 2-1 win for Leicester City is the most probable result.