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Leicester City v Newcastle United: Predicted starting teams

By Thomas Bradley Alderman

LEICESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Ricardo Pereira of Leicester City (L) celebrates after scoring his team's first goal with team mate Dennis Praet during the Premier League match between Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur at The King Power Stadium on September 21, 2019 in Leicester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
LEICESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Ricardo Pereira of Leicester City (L) celebrates after scoring his team's first goal with team mate Dennis Praet during the Premier League match between Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur at The King Power Stadium on September 21, 2019 in Leicester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) /
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Leicester City entertain Newcastle United on Sunday at King Power Stadium in the latest round of Premier League games. Here are Foxes of Leicester’s predicted starting sides.
Leicester City entertain Newcastle United on Sunday at King Power Stadium in the latest round of Premier League games. Here are Foxes of Leicester’s predicted starting sides. /

Leicester City sit third currently in the Premier League – oh how us fans would take that as a final spot now if it were offered! Anyway, back in the real world, it has been a very good start by Brendan Rodgers’ Foxes. Although they’ve only got up to about fourth gear: meaning this side can produce even better polished flowing football.

Hopefully that prospectively incredible standard will emerge as Leicester gel and find the answer to minor issues: like the best personnel and appropriate approach for the right-wing position.

Leicester City form

In the last match at King Power Stadium Leicester beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1. Thanks, in part, to a controversial and contentious offside decision in the East Midlands club’s favour.

To be honest, the contest eventually felt like it produced the correct result; yet Spurs will feel they deserved at least a point. Difficult as it is to disagree with that, this is a scalp for the Foxes in their quest for premiership top six; or, feasibly, higher.

Newcastle United are the next side to suffer “fortress KP” – well, that’s what us faithful and manager want it to become again, and it’s maturing in the right direction. And Newcastle’s form is questionable, at best. The Magpies have lost three, drawn two and lost one; they sit in 17th place in the top-flight.

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In addition, Newcastle lost on penalties to Leicester in the League Cup this season. Therefore Rodgers’ side will be confident, but not over-confident: new boss Steve Bruce’s team have won their two previous visits to Filbert Way.

Provable starting line-ups

According to ChronicleLive, these Toon Army players are not in contention: Jonjo Shelvey and Matt Ritchie. While Sean Longstaff, Allan Saint-Maximin, Andy Carroll and DeAndre Yedlin are available.

Consequently Foxes of Leicester are going to speculate on Newcastle’s XI: Martin Dubravka; Paul Dummett, Fabian Schär, Jamaal Lascelles, Jetro Willems, Javier Manquillo; Isaac Hayden, Longstaff; Saint-Maximin, Christian Atsu; Joelinton

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With James Maddison most probably unavailable for the match, it seems very likely that Dennis Praet will replace him directly in an otherwise unchanged team from the one which began against Spurs: Kasper Schmeichel; Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans, Caglar Soyuncu, Ben Chilwell; Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, Praet; Ayoze Perez, Harvey Barnes; Jamie Vardy.