Leicester v Tottenham: injuries and expected line-ups

Leicester City play Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday in a crunch game. Foxes of Leicester predicts the teams’ starting XIs using injury news and previous choices.

Without being the voice of doom, FoL will quickly just explain why failure to enter Champions League in 2021/22 may be slightly disastrous for the Foxes. First of all, Brendan Rodgers is apparently being eyed up by Tottenham as a potential new manager, as per Daily Mail. UCL qualification would surely help retain the boss on Filbert Way.

Secondly, players such as Youri Tielemans, Wesley Fofana, and even James Maddison will perhaps be swayed by interest from clubs entering the most prominent European competition in 2021/22.

In essence, those hypothetical possibilities would be worse case scenarios for the Foxes, but it shows how important it is for Rodgers’ side to beat Spurs. Yet, sadly for LCFC, entry to the UCL is now out of their hands.

Leicester City v Spurs: injuries, possible line-ups

Rodgers spoke to media about the status of his squad on Friday; the Northern Irishman confirmed centre-back Jonny Evans is unfortunately injured and unavailable for the visit of Ryan Mason’s outfit. James Justin and Harvey Barnes remain on the sidelines for Leicester.

The east Midlanders are likely to line-up similarly to how they have been recently in a 3-4-1-2 formation:

Kasper Schmeichel; Caglar Soyuncu, Wesley Fofana, Timothy Castagne; Luke Thomas, Marc Albrighton/Ricardo Pereira – probably Albrighton – Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans; James Maddison; Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho.

Meanwhile, Mason is without Japhet Tanganga and Ben Davies for the clash, suggest football.london. FoL assume Spurs will also start with a team reminiscent of recent outings:

Hugo Lloris; Sergio Reguilon, Matt Doherty, Toby Alderweireld, Eric Dier; Harry Winks, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg; Steven Bergwijn, Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son; Harry Kane.