Leicester City and Chelsea will take on on Saturday in the 12th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Leicester at the King Power Stadium.
Leicester City is in the 12th position in the table with 15 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Leeds United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 4 times, draw 3 times, and lost 4 times.
Chelsea sits in the 1st position in the standings with 26 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Burnley in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now,, it has won 8 times, drawn twice, and lost once.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Leicester City
Leicester City has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-3 and 3-4-1-2 (3 times or 27.27% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 4-4-2 (2 times).
Brendan Rodgers is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: K. Schmeichel, T. Castagne, C. Söyüncü, J. Evans, R. Barbosa Pereira, B. Soumaré, O. Ndidi, J. Maddison, H. Barnes, A. Lookman and J. Vardy.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Leicester City would be 27.36.
Brendan Rodgers will probably not be able to employ J. Justin, M. Albrighton and R. Bertrand because of injury.
W. Fofana and Y. Tielemans will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 72.73%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (8 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Thomas Tuchel is expected to play against Leicester City with the following players: E. Mendy, T. da Silva, A. Christensen, A. Rüdiger, B. Chilwell, R. James, N. Kanté, J. Frello Filho, C. Hudson-Odoi and K. Havertz.
If the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Chelsea would be 26.90.
There are doubts about the presence of M. Mount.
Thomas Tuchel will probably not be able to employ M. Alonso Mendoza, M. Kovačić, R. Lukaku Menama and T. Werner because of injury.