Leicester City – Stoke City Betting Tips
Leicester City Soccer Tips
The “Foxes” can be more than satisfied with their season so far. At the moment, the 2015/2016 champion ranks well 8th in the table, but with relegation, unlike the start of the season, there is nothing left to do. This is mainly due to Claude Puel, who clearly stabilized the team after taking office. In the last few weeks and months, however, there was little to see of the constancy of the early days under Puel. After 3 games without defeat and conceding in rounds 22 to 24, it was enough in the following three matches only to a single point. Last weekend, Manchester City suffered a fierce 1: 5 defeat, Swansea’s only 1-1 defeat, and Everton (1-2) scored three points. After all: The dress rehearsal for the duel with Stoke City was narrowly won 1-0 in the FA Cup against Sheffield Wednesday. In our opinion, this result is not really meaningful. Above all, the defensive did not act as stable in the final rounds as it already did. Instead, the bankruptcy against City nothing else than the highest defeat of the season “Foxes” dar. Offensively, it looked much better: After all, Leicester could always score at least one in 8 of the last 9 league games. The fact that against Swansea and thus a currently similar weak team like Saturday opponent Stoke did not get over a 1-1, makes for the upcoming weekend not much hope, especially as this match was denied at home. In general, we see the home advantage as essential for Leicester: 6 out of 9 victories in the season were recorded in the own stadium, especially in the last as mentioned vulnerable defense was much more stable on the way. 10 goals less than away are in the previous 13 home games to book. At Leicester, we still see strong points in the game in depth or with fast switching. In addition, Jamie Vardy has one of the most accurate strikers in the Premier League (13 goals), which should be taken into account when it comes to goalscoring. His congenial partner from the championship season, Ryad Mahrez, has also been successful 8 times. Important: Coach Puel does not have to do without a single Kaderspieler on Saturday after the current information stand. Strengths in the game forward we see in Leicester especially in the game over the wings. It is not without reason that the aforementioned Ryad Mahrez (8 assists) and his counterpart Marc Albrightion (6) are Leicester’s two best assistants.
Stoke City Betting tips
That Stoke City on Saturday is significantly more under pressure than the opponent from Leicester, is beyond question. Currently, the “Potters” are only on the 19th place in the table. However, the situation is not yet hopeless, after all, Stoke currently separate only two points from the teams from Huddersfield, Swansea and Crystal Palace. The latest results, however, read even more poorly than those of the opponent from Leicester. Because: Stoke could only decide one of the last 8 games for himself, as happened in a home game in the 2-0 against Huddersfield. There followed a 0-0 draw against Watford and a 1: 2 defeat against AFC Bournemouth. On the last matchday also succeeded against the direct competitor from Brighton not over a 1: 1 addition. So you should not have much hope for Saturday. Also, because the away balance of the men of Paul Lambert does not look very good. Only one of six seasonal successes was celebrated abroad, but this is on Saturday almost to the day exactly 4 months back. The biggest problems we still see on the defensive at Stoke: 27 games have been denied in the 2017/2018 season already, only four times remained Stoke City without conceding. However, only one of these matches was again played abroad, so you have collected in 12 away matches at least one goal. The direct duel with Leicester also does not necessarily mean hope: none of the last 5 encounters Stoke City won, the last two away games were lost 0-2 and 0-3 without scoring. Overall, Stoke has also lost 6 of his last 7 away games. In terms of goalbook interesting: A bet on more than 2.5 hits, after all, this value has been exceeded in each of the past 3 away games of the Potters, also collected in the last 5 duels with the “Foxes” always at least 2 goals. The same applies to the other three away games in the Premier League season 2017/2018. Personnel can still hope for Coach Lambert: Currently, Darren Fletcher, Stephen Ireland and Peter Crouch are still questionable, but all three could be fit in time. Stoke City are by far the weakest defense in the Premier League with 53 goals, six more than their closest counterparts from Huddersfield, Watford and West Ham.
PREDICTION: Leicester win @ 1.75
