Manchester City vs Leicester City – 21/12/2019 Preview

Manchester City vs Leicester City will be the most thrilling and interesting match during the 18th Round of English Premier League, which will be held at Etihad Stadium, in Manchester. Both teams are fighting for the top places this season in Premier League. Even showing very dangerous and strong football, Citizens stay at 3rd place with 4 points difference against Leicester, which is 2nd. Sky Blues won 4 out of 5 last meeting at Etihad Stadium against Leicester. Moreover, both teams scored in 4 of 5 last games. So games between these two rivals always give us productive and beautiful games. Read our thoughts about this exciting Premier League Manchester City vs Leicester City match, here below.

Manchester City vs Leicester City

Manchester City

Citizens have big troubles in defence line so far. They stand at the moment at 3rd place and already conceded 19 goals in 17 matches. This is weakest result between 3 top teams at the moment, however, Sky Blues are the best in the League by scored goals as they already have 47 after 17 rounds. Twice in a row England Champion will obviously try to reach Liverpool as they made it last season. However, Klopp surely made big work on mistakes and will not lose a great opportunity to take long-waited trophy. The City will play several important matches without several strong team leaders like Sane, Aguero, Silva, Stones and Laporte. These absences can strongly affect their game, knowing how hard to concentrate during this winter period.

Hosts closed the Champions League group stage with a confident win over the Dinamo Zagreb 4:1 and took 1st place with unbeaten 6 games streak. They will paly over the Real Madrid in 1/8 Finals in February. Very hard calendar awaits Citizens in upcoming year. So they need to play well over the Foxes to take as many points as it is possible.

Leicester City

Guests show one of the greatest runs so far taking 10 wins in 11 unbeaten games. They stand at 2nd place in Premier League and just knocked out Everton from EFL Cup after a penalty shootout. In PL they faced only 2 defeats and shows the best defensive football conceding 11 goals in 17 rounds. Even Liverpool, which was great in that statistics can’t boast of such results. In general, Brandon Rogers made a great work with the team and shows second-best result in the Premier League. Unfortunately, they are not attending in European competitions, but if they continue playing such an unstoppable football, next year they will undoubtedly be one of the most dangerous in CL. The game over Citizens is a great opportunity to prove their desire and abilities.

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