Leicester City vs Manchester United BigMatchPreview

When: Manchester United VS Leicester City 19:30 IST 14th September

Where: Old Trafford, Manchester

Match Referee: Martin Atkinson

Team Preview: Manchester United

Table position: 8

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Ole’s at the wheel?

Manchester United have had the worst start to a competitive season since the 1992/93. The Red devils have only managed to secure 5 points out of the available 12. Manchester United a undergoing a big rebuild (again), the Mancunian club has a been able to hit the top since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson and have chopping and changing a lot since then.

The summer transfer window was a very busy one for the 20 time English Champions, with 3 INS and 6 OUTS, the clear is well truly on happening boys. The three signings Daniel James (Swansea City), Aaron Wan-bissaka (Crystal Palace) and Harry Maguire (Leicester City) have integrated themselves well into the first team at the theater of dreams. Aaron Wan Bissaka is leading the charts with number of successful tackles and Daniel James has already equaled Alexis Sanchez’s Man Utd’s Premier League tally.

Manchester United not only put 4 past Chelsea, they also possession wised controlled the next three games too, even though the results where not what they desire the performances where not bad.

Manchester United find it hard when an opposition sit deep with two banks of four and leave no space for their attackers to create something.

Manchester United came out victorious the last time these teams met, thanks to Marcus Rashford’s goal assisted by Paul Pogba. Ole’s men will going into this fixture with a point to prove and bury all the talk about inconsistency and lack of effort

Team News:
Paul Pogba, Wan-bissaka and Lingard with drew themselves with injuries and illness during the international break along with Martial and shaw will miss this fixture.

Team Preview: Leicester City https://allaboutfpl.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/teaminfocus-leicester-city/

Table position: 3

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Rise! Sir Brendon Rogers 😛
Leicester City under Rogers are continuously improving, they are one of three sides that remain unbeaten in the premier league. The way they have started the campaign we can safely say that will make strong bid to get a place in the top six this season. With uncertainty looming over the form of both Chelsea and Manchester United.
The foxes under Brendan Rodgers have play in a 4-1-4-1 with Ndidi in the holding midfielder role.

Leicester also had a busy transfer window which saw an 80 million profit with the sale of Harry Maguire to Manchester United who was replaced by Soyuncu who has a had good start to his life alongside Evans at the King Power.

They also signed Ayoze Perez to add both creativity and threat to the side, but we all know how that is going. His poor performances have now free-ed up spaces for players like Hamza Choudhury who provides more stability in the midfield.

Tielemans, Maddison and Barnes are given full license to go and express themselves with Ndidi doing all the dirty work.

Adding to this the fullbacks Ben Chilwell and Pereira overlap the wingers to put the ball into dangerous areas.

Team News

Unlike manchester united, brendan rodgers has a fully fit squad to choose from.

LAST FIVE ENCOUNTERS:

• LEICESTER CITY 0 – MANCHESTER UNITED 1
• MANCHESTER UNITED 2 – LEICESTER CITY 1
• LEICESTER CITY 2 – MANCHESTER UNITED 2
• MANCHESTER UNITED 2 – LEICESTER CITY 0
• LEICESTER CITY 0 – MANCHESTER UNITED 3

Leicester City last won against United during the famous 5-3 win at the King Power during the 14/15 season, where they managed to stay up after huge struggle.

Did You Know?

Marcus Rashford has scored against Leicester City each in the past three seasons.

100% of Jamie Vardy’s shots from inside the box this season have been assisted by either Youri Tielemans or James Maddison.

James Maddison has already created 5 scoring chances and bagged two assists. Highly creative attacking threat.

Daniel James is averaging a goal every 105 minutes this season in all competitions.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka has won more tackles per game (6.5) than any other player across Europe’s top five leagues so far this season.

Paul Pogba has created 11 chances from open play in the Premier League this season, only Kevin De Bruyne (13) has created more.

Daniel James has a 37.5% conversion rate in the Premier League this season, the 5th best of any player to have taken 10+ shots. That’s a better rate than Sadio Manè, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Harry Kane & Raúl Jiménez.

Key Battles:

James Maddison vs Scott McTominay:

James Maddison the young english attacker has had a treffic start to the season, picking up where he left off. In his first Premier League season he was the player that created most scoring chances. The 22- year old attacking midfielder has already registered two assists this season, and his good form got him a call-up from the England National team.
On, Saturday he will be against another youngster in the form of Scott McTominay, who will be looking to stay close and stifle Maddison’s creativity and stop him from releasing players like Jamie Vardy early with space to run behind United’s defense.

Rashford vs Caglar Soyuncu

Marcus Rashford will continue to play up top if the Frenchmen Anthony Martial is not passed fit for the upcoming gameweek 5 fixture. Manchester United’s front three are very fluid and keep changing positions regularly, which means Soyuncu and company have different jobs in hand with different attacking player.
The England striker who has had a mixed start to the season will be up against the 23-year old Turkish center back, who is said to the replacement for the recently departed Harry Maguire in the heart of the Leicester defense in the Premier League this season.
The centre back is phenomenal in the air, having won 4.5 aerial balls this season, while he is also good on the cover, averaging 3 tackles per game against Premier League opposition. The partnership between him and Johnny Evans is off to great start but it will face a stern test at Old Trafford when the go up against the Red Devils. Marcus Rashford averages a goal every 111 minutes under Ole since he took over, Soyuncu has his work cut out for Saturday

Predicted XI’s:
Manchester United (4-2-3-1)

David De-Gea, Rojo, Young, Maguire, Lindelof, Mctominay, pereira, Mata,James, Mctominay, Rashford

Leicester City (4-1-4-1)

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Schmeichel, Periera, Chilwell, Evans, Sonyuncu, Ndidi, Barnes, Maddison, Tielemans, Chowdhary, Vardy

AllaboutFPL Verdict:
From the classic 5-3 at king power to the 0-1 last season, this fixture always promises us one thing and that is goals which in turn provides entertainment. This time around the stakes are a bit high, the two teams are direct top 6 opponents and if one has succeed in making it into the european football next season, they have play well and beat the other.
For Ole’s team this is a crucial fixture, Bryan Robson (Captain Marvel) in recent interview said ” If we (Man Utd) have to get top 4 we need to beat teams like Leicester” like the previous fixture, we expect this match to also have goals in them, as we all know Man Utd will be looking press high from the start and hit them on the break and Rogers possession based style might play them into the hands of the Red Devils. A lot rest on the players like Jessie Lingard and Andreas Peirera who are excellent runners of the ball to press the foxes high up the pitch and create scoring opportunites. But, the manager can also opt Juan Mata if they think Leicester will sit back and try to hit them on the break because, Mata is one of the few players who has the ability to pick a pass.

Predicted Score: Man Utd will not be able to keep a clean sheet in this fixture so, we predict a 2-1 win for them
Manchester United 2 – Leicester City 1