Manchester City vs. Leicester City: Preview, Team News, Previous Meeting and Prediction
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Need to get a win in the worst way!
Manchester City face a complicated away match vs Leicester! Match day is here and City should be ready and roaring to go.
The Premier League is off to the races and City continue the fourth straight defense of the crown.
Venue: King Power Stadium, Leicester, England
Time and Date: Sunday 29 December 2024, Kickoff at 14:30 GMT, 9.30 am EST, USA
Referee: Michael Oliver
Assistants: Stuart Burt, Neil Davies
Fourth Official: Bobby Madley
VAR: Paul Tierney.
Assistant VAR: Sian Massey-Ellis.
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Preview + Form
A tricky match up, and seeing the form of these clubs, one would back some sort of resurgence by City here. However, this could be the second win for City, who need more results in the worst of ways.
For the Foxes, this is a real tricky spot as they have a motivated side in front of them and are a decent in form team in themselves.
The key battle will be the forwards chosen vs a their defense. An interesting match up is in tow. Who will play?
Which team will come out in front? We are in store for a fun match.
Previous Meeting
Our latest encounter with Leicester City came in April 2023 at the Etihad Stadium as a first-half brace from Erling Haaland came after a John Stones opener.
Kelechi Iheanacho scored what was only a consolation for the Foxes in the second-half as City recorded a tenth successive victory as we chased down Arsenal who were at the top of the Premier League at the time.
Pep Guardiola Preview
"Sometimes you expect it will be easy to fix it but sometimes it will take more time," Guardiola said ahead of the clash at the King Power Stadium, which kicks off at 14:30 (UK).
"I will not give up. I want to be here and do it. The situation we have, we have to do it.
"Now we go to Leicester, always have been difficult but now the players will be ready to do it."
"It is what it is - I prefer not to live in that situation but it is what it is.
"Try to be as calm as possible, read the situation and work out what we can do to be better in the next game. This is what I want to try and all I want to do."
"The only chance that we have is to continue - recovery and prepare well for Leicester.
"We want to change the dynamic and unfortunately we could not do it for many reasons.
"The United game we gave it away, [against Everton] we were close again. I don't have a way to explain. It happens, it's life, it's football.
"We will try it again. Try it again. That's why we have so much success and win a lot of titles because games every three days for many years. Now we have to do the same."
Team News
City's side have an unavailable/questionable list of Rodri, Kyle Walker, Ederson, John Stones, Ruben Dias, Ederson, Matheus Nunes & Oscar Bobb who are out or doubtful.
Leicester have Hermansen, Pereira, Folawu, Ayew, McAteer, Faes, and Ndidi out/doubtful.
Prediction
Manchester City 2-2 Leicester City
