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Leicester City and Everton play at King Power Stadium in an 18th round Barclays Premier League duel. The record of recent direct matches favors the home team, who in the last 5 matches won 3 and drew 2. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 05-07-2016, ended with the victory of Leicester City by (3- 1). The home / away condition deserves special attention, since although this is a match between 15th and 9th overall, this is actually a confrontation between the 9th place in home games and the 13th as a visitor.
Leicester City
After 4 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses, the home team is in 15th place, having won 17 points. In the last match, they drew with Stoke away for (2-2), after in the previous game to have lost out in a game against Bournemouth, for (1-0). This is a team affected by the home factor, having won 15 points in their stadium, with 15 goals scored and 8 conceded, against 2 points away, where he scored 8 goals and suffered 21. For the championship, Leicester City won 15 points in 24 Possible, after 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss in the last 8 games he played in his stadium. In his home games there are some frequent scorers in the break: 0-0 (3 in 8 games) and 1-0 (3 in 8 games). Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded at least one goal in each of the last 10 games, but his attack has regularly scored as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches in this competition. In their home matches by the competition there is a tendency towards goals, since 6 in 8 finished with More than 2.5 goals in the marker. This is a team that scores a few times first: just opened the scoring in 4 of their last 17 games by the Barclays Premier League, these 4 reached the break in advantage in all and won in the late 90 ‘in all. In 17 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 11 times and never managed to turn the score. In the last 20 home games in all competitions there are 1 periods in the standings: he suffered 8 of his 17 goals between the minutes (76’-90 ‘).
The Leicester City team comes to this game with a 2-2 draw at Stoke’s, adding their second consecutive game without a win in the competition: the goals were scored by Ulloa and Amartey. In this hometown match, Claudio Ranieri must have been given a strategic 4-4-2 formation. English offensive Jamie Vardy is Leicester’s top scorer with 5 goals scored, however, he is suspended for this match. In addition to this player, the coach can not rely on Robert Huth and Fuchs, suspended, as well as Drinkwater, player who recovers from injury.
Everton
The visiting team is currently in 9th place with 23 points, after 6 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses. In the penultimate match, he won at home to Arsenal by (2-1). In the last match, lost at home to Liverpool by (0-1). This is a team affected by the home factor, having won 7 points as a visitor and 16 in their stadium, with 12 goals scored and 7 goals conceded at home, against 9 goals scored and 14 suffered as a visitor. His last away game for this competition ended with a 3-2 loss to Watford. In the last eight away games Everton have recorded 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses, having won 7 points out of 24.
In this competition, he lost his last 4 games as a visitor and did not win any of the last 6 that he played as a visitor. In the matches played out in the league, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 ‘was 1-0, which occurred in 3 of his 9 matches. The team allowed their opponents’ goals in 9 of the last 10 games, so they have not shown great defensive solidity, but their attack has scored regularly, as they managed to achieve in 7 of the last 10 games in this competition. In 17 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 10 times and only got 3 turns on the scoreboard.
Ronald Koeman’s side come to this game with a home defeat by big rival Liverpool, 0-1, for the third defeat in the last seven games. Usually the visiting coach lines up in 4-3-3 privileging the possession of the ball and organized attacks, especially from the right: Valencia is very fast and competent in driving the ball to the attack. Romelu Lukaku is the most effective Everton with 9 goals scored. For this game the Dutch coach can not count on Gibson, Kone, McCarthy, Browning, Besic, Stekelenburg and Bolasie, all with physical problems.
Prediction: over 2.5 goals @ 2,00