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Leicester vs Watford Prediction & Betting tips
Leicester City won the last seven official games it played. On Wednesday evening, Brendan Rodgers’ team at the King Power Stadium will be visited by Watford, who, with Quique Sánchez Flores, put a trainer out for the second time this season.
Leicester City:
Rodgers is working on an impressive season with Leicester City. The Foxes are in second place and have a three point lead over Manchester City since last weekend. The gap with leader Liverpool is eight points to the disadvantage of Leicester City, but with Leicester they also have no illusion that they can win the Premier League. The Foxes know that Champions League qualification is a real goal at the moment. If Rodgers manages to qualify for the Champions League with Leicester City, he has performed above expectations. Champions League qualification is not as impressive as the championship that Claudio Ranieri reached with Leicester City in 2016, but should Rodgers manage to qualify with Leicester for the Champions League then the 46-year-old Northern Irish deserves full credit.
Leicester City therefore won the last seven games it played. Six of those seven wins also came about in the Premier League. This also happened last weekend. The Foxes received Everton on Sunday night at the King Power Stadium and Leicester City again managed to grab three points: 2-1. It didn’t all go smoothly. Leicester trailed in the first half and Jamie Vardy made it equal in the 68th minute. Only in the dying seconds did Kelechi Iheanacho give his team the three points. Initially, the goal was still rejected due to offside, but after the intervention of the VAR, The Foxes still got the green light to celebrate the victory.
Watford:
After Javi Gracia, Quique Sánchez Flores was also fired at Watford. Gracia was thrown out about three months ago by the Pozzo family, owner of Watford, and Sánchez Flores did not last long at the train graveyard called Watford. Last Saturday, The Hornets lost 2-1 to relegation competitor Southampton and not much later, Watford announced that Sánchez Flores had been fired. What makes Sánchez Flores even more acidic is that Southampton’s equalizer – Watford took the lead in the first half – was completely wrongfully approved by the referee and the VAR. The VAR officials on the other hand admitted this week that the 1-1 should never have been approved due to a handball.
The question is, of course, why trainers would commit to Watford at all, because there is a good chance that you will have to look for another job within a few months. Nevertheless, the applications are pouring in at Watford. Among other things, the name of Chris Hughton, who was still Brighton & Hove Albion’s trainer last season, is mentioned in the corridors as Watford’s new manager. On Wednesday evening, Hayden Mullins, coach at Watford Onder-23, will temporarily take a seat on Watford’s bench to take on the honors.
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