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Leicester vs Bournemouth Prediction & Betting tips
In the King Power Stadium, Leicester City receives the AFC Bournemouth from Nathan Aké on Saturday afternoon. Will the Dutch defender of Bournemouth manage to win three points in Leicester?
Leicester :
Leicester City is in eighth place in the Premier League and with a victory over Bournemouth it would reach a total of 39 points. However, The Foxes has not been able to win any matches in the Premier League in recent weeks. Claude Puel’s team managed to win 1-0 vs. Sheffield United more than two weeks ago in the FA Cup, but the last victory that Leicester City managed to book in the Premier League was in January. The Foxes then won 2-0 against Watford, but four games are already waiting for a new competition victory.
A week ago, Leicester City had earned three points when relegation candidate Stoke City came to visit at the King Power Stadium. In the first half of the day, visitors still took a 0-1 lead, but in the second half the initiative was complete with Claude Puel’s Leicester. After seventy minutes of playing football, The Foxes came into a tie with Stoke City thanks to Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland, but that same Butland also made sure that Leicester City could not beat Stoke City in the remaining twenty minutes. For example, Riyad Mahrez once failed to come face to face with Butland and Stoke defender Kurt Zouma. The Foxes also touched the woodwork.
Despite the fact that Leicester City has not been able to win in the Premier League in recent weeks, Puel’s men are hardly lost. Only two of the last eleven games Leicester City played were lost to The Foxes and Leicester remained unbeaten in the last seven home games. Nevertheless, Leicester City fans will also like to see another victory in the Premier League and that should only happen when AFC Bournemouth visits this weekend. The advantage for Puel is that he has a fit selection and only behind the name of the Japanese Shinji Okazaki is a question mark, but at Leicester they will do everything to get the attacker fit for the duel with Bournemouth.
Bournemouth :
AFC Bournemouth is three places lower than Leicester City in the Premier League ranking. The Cherries are in eleventh place and, despite a five-point lead, still have to fear a relegation battle. There are still six teams between Bournemouth and the relegation streak, but if Eddie Howe’s squad does not win a match for a few weeks, they can still be in danger. Still, the chance is not plausible that Bournemouth will actually be in danger in the closing weeks of the Premier League, because the Cherries actually have too much quality for that.
Bournemouth did not show those qualities last week when Newcastle United came to visit Vitalty Stadium. The Cherries got the 0-1 in the seventeenth minute and a blunder from Asmir Begović caused Newcastle United to take a 0-2 lead in Bournemouth just before half time. In the second half, however, Howe’s team started to play a better game, but it was not until ten minutes before the end that Adam Smith was in a great way responsible for the goalkeeper and in the final phase of the game, Dan Goslin managed to bring in the equalizer on Nathan Aké’s request. shooting on behalf of The Cherries. Despite the loss of point against PhD student Newcastle United there was also positive news for Howe: Jermain Defoe last week again took minutes after two months of injuries.
The Cherries managed to win 0-3 a bit more than a month ago at Stamford Bridge of Chelsea, but that was also the only one of the last ten games that Bournemouth won outside its own Vitality Stadium. Three weeks ago, The Cherries still went 4-1 down hard at Huddersfield Town and at Bournemouth they will defeat such a thing at all costs this weekend, but then they have to play better than The Cherries in the last two duels have done.
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