Leicester v Everton: injury news and expected starting XI

Leicester City play Everton in the Premier League on Sunday, in a more important game to the Toffees than the Foxes. Here is Foxes of Leicester’s expected starting XI, including injury updates.

Have you Foxes gotten over the heartache of being knocked out of a European semifinal for the first time? And not any Euro competition, but the Europa Conference League. OK, the tournament is fresh and yet to become prestigious, if it ever does.

However, etching your club’s name onto an inaugural trophy and entering back into the Europa League proper next season would have been ideal for the East Midlands side at this point. It has been an awkward Premier League campaign. Now the worry of important personnel pressing for Riyad Mahrez-style exits could become the norm. Hopefully it doesn’t; I don’t expect a mass exodus. One or two vital stars may request a move, though.

Clearly I am not quite over the disappointment. Although, I can shed light and clarity on that lingering bitterness: I thought the team didn’t do themselves justice. They seemingly put enough effort into the deciding tie in Rome. Obviously the travelling Blue Army believe this, as you can see from the support for James Maddison’s tweet assertion of the second leg.

It was the lack of confidence, plethora of misplaced passes and no great chances being created for Jamie Vardy which bothered me. The XI truly needs a rebuild – let’s hope that is with the best current LCFC stars.

Injury news and expected starting XI for Leicester City vs Everton

Ahead of Everton’s visit to King Power Stadium, FoL wanted to offer readers insight into the starting lineup we predict. First of all, Ryan Bertrand and Wilfred Ndidi are said to be the only absentees. I think Brendan Rodgers may rest some of heavily involved defenders. Along with players such as Youri Tielemans and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, or rotate the pair between halves. So Leicester’s XI might look something like this:

Kasper Schmeichel; Timothy Castagne, Daniel Amartey, Caglar Soyuncu, Luke Thomas; Papy Mendy; Tielemans; James Maddison; Marc Albrighton, Ademola Lookman; Kelechi Iheanacho.