A 2-0 win over Southampton final day trip additional solidified Leicester Metropolis’s credentials as title challengers and prolonged their unbeaten streak in all competitions to 6 video games (W4, D2). They scored both facets of HT in that match, and it’s Leicester’s second-half performances that have gotten them to the place they’re at present, with the ‘Foxes’ turning a league-high six HT attracts into FT wins this Premier League (PL) marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, they’ll be up towards it right here if latest historical past is something to buy, as Leicester are winless within the final 4 PL H2Hs they’ve hosted (D2, L2), though they need to problem from the off contemplating they’ve netted earlier than HT in 4 of their final 5 aggressive dwelling video games. Nonetheless, Brendan Rodgers will probably be upset together with his facet’s PL dwelling kind up to now (W4, D1, L4).
Chelsea put a halt to their three-game winless league streak with a 1-0 win at Fulham because of their eleventh strike after the seventy-fifth minute this PL marketing campaign – the second-highest tally throughout that point interval, behind solely opponents Leicester (12). That outcome additionally means the ‘Blues’ have recorded the identical objectives scored per PL match common (1.83), and conceded common (1.17), as their hosts this time period!
That latest win – and Chelsea’s 800th PL away objective – ended a three-game shedding run away from dwelling, however, was additionally their fourth away clean sheet of the PL marketing campaign, an enormous improvement on the only PL clear sheet they managed on the street all through the whole thing of 2019/20.
Gamers to look at James Maddison has scored the opener in Leicester’s final two PL matches, however, will face competitors in doing so once more from Mason Mount who’s been Chelsea’s first goalscorer in his facet’s final two aggressive matches.
Sizzling stat: Chelsea’s most typical successful scoreline within the PL is 1-0 – they’ve gained by that scoreline 131 occasions.