Leicester City vs Crystal Palace: In form Palace travel to the King Power
By Jake Cursley
Tomorrow’s 3PM kickoff will see Leicester City face Crystal Palace at the King Power in the Premier League. As always, you can find all of the information you need right here!
Our Prediction: Leicester City 2 – 1 Crystal Palace
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Reasoning: Despite what looks like a terrible run of form in the Premier League, Leicester are actually unbeaten at home.
When you take into account the teams that the foxes have played away so far this season (Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea) you soon see that their away fixtures so far have been very tough.
Their home form has seen them win against Swansea and Burnley whilst drawing to Southampton and Arsenal, the latter of which was only side to take 6 points from the foxes last season.
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With their confidence sky high after winning a tough 90 minutes against Copenhagen, who are currently the second placed team in Group G in the Champions League, Leicester fans will hope that Claudio Ranieri’s squad will kick on and win against Crystal Palace.
Alan Pardew’s men have had a typical Pardew start to the season, very strong.
With additions this summer of Benteke and Loic Remy as well as Andros Townsend on the wing, they’re more than capable going forward.
Palace see themselves sitting in 9th place, 4 places ahead of Leicester who are in 13th.
Much like Leicester, Palace have had a poor defensive record this season.
Pardew’s side have yet to keep a clean sheet and with club record signing Islam Slimani and last years top goalscorer Jamie Vardy likely to start, their back line is going to have a job on their hands.
With both defences being weak, I can see both sides scoring, however with Loic Remy injured I believe that Leicester will come out top.
Kick-off: 15:00(GMT)
Date: 22nd October 2016
Steams/TV:
Available on NBCSN all NBC subscribers
Available on BBC Radio Leicester
Available on BBC Radio 5 Live
Text Streams will also be available from various websites i.e The Telegraph, BBC Sports news feed, Sky Sports News etc as well as Leicester’s Twitter account (@LCFC).
Head to Head:
Leicester City: 25
Drawn: 17
Crystal Palace: 23
Last 5 matches:
20th Apr 2013: Crystal Palace 2 – 2 Leicester
27th Sep 2014: Crystal Palace 2 – 0 Leicester
07th Feb 2015: Leicester 0 – 1 Crystal Palace
24th Oct 2015: Leicester 1 – 0 Crystal Palace
19th Mar 2016: Crystal Palace 0 – 1 Leicester
Ranieri’s comments:
"“I remember it was a very tough match. I told them they could have a pizza – but they want something more now? They are Champions so maybe they want a dinner now.”"
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"“I knew sooner or later we will return to the same level, I told my players at the beginning it would be very hard, but if we keep it going then in the bad moments then we can win again.”"