Leicester City vs West Ham
Venue: King Power Stadium
Kick Off: 5:30PM
West Ham United will be hoping that their off-the-field issues involving Kurt Zouma will have no impact on their efforts to claim maximum points against Leicester City when they travel to the King Power Stadium this evening.
The Hammers currently occupy fourth spot in the Premier League table, while the Foxes have slipped down to 12th place, 14 points behind David Moyes’s men.
After bowing out of the FA Cup in the fourth round as holders of the competition, courtesy of a disappointing 4-1 defeat to Championship outfit Nottingham Forest last weekend, Leicester City suffered a 2-0 loss away at Liverpool in the Premier League on Thursday, to pile more misery on the Foxes.
Brendan Rodgers managed to get one over his former side in the reverse fixture on December 28; however, a brace from Diogo Jota helped Liverpool secure a comfortable victory at Anfield, condemning the visitors to their ninth league defeat of the campaign.
Leicester have dropped down to 12th in the Premier League table, eight places and 13 points worse off than at this stage of last season and any slim hopes of a top-four push now seem dead and buried.
Rodgers will be keen for his team to put a disappointing week behind them, but they will now prepare for a difficult fixture against Champions League-hopefuls West Ham, who have beaten the Foxes in each of the last three meetings.
Leicester have dropped down to 12th in the Premier League table, eight places and 13 points worse off than at this stage of last season and any slim hopes of a top-four push now seem dead and buried.
Rodgers will be keen for his team to put a disappointing week behind them, but they will now prepare for a difficult fixture against Champions League-hopefuls West Ham, who have beaten the Foxes in each of the last three meetings.
West Ham head into today’s contest at the King Power having previously enjoyed plenty of success in front of goal against Leicester; the East Londoners have scored in 26 of their 29 top-flight meetings against the Foxes, and in their last three alone they have found the net at least three times, including their 4-1 triumph at the London Stadium earlier this season.
In-form forward Jarrod Bowen has been a standout performer for West Ham this season, contributing to 21 goals in 34 appearances across all competitions. Currently sitting on 11 goals, the 25-year-old could become the first Englishman since Carlton Cole in 2008-09 to net 12 times in a single campaign with the Hammers as a top-flight club.
Leicester City possible XI: Schmeichel, Pereira, Amartey, Soyuncu, Thomas, Ndidi, Tielemans, Albrighton, Maddison, Barnes, Iheanacho.
West Ham possible XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Zouma, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio.