The Premier League weekend concludes with a massive match in the Monday Night Football when Leicester City host Liverpool in a clash which will have massive implications at both ends of the table and is one neither can afford to lose.
Leicester City will walk out at the King Power Stadium second from bottom in the Premier League table but a win will move them out of the bottom three with two matches to play. Liverpool start the night four points off the top four and defeat will all but end their Champions League hopes.
Where to watch
The match will be shown live and in full in the Monday Night Football show which this week begins at 6.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. Kick off is at 8pm.
Leicester City
I have been waiting for Leicester City to come out of the relegation danger all season because surely their squad is too good to go down but it hasn’t happened and now you are left wondering if they actually will come out of trouble at all. They have three matches left and would probably need to win at least two of them so they really need to find a way to put some poor showings behind them to give this everything that they have got.
If Leicester are going to get out of the trouble they have got themselves into then they are going to have to improve defensively. They have shipped 12 goals in their last five games and when you have to score three times to have a chance of winning you are not going to win too many at this level. The positive for the Foxes is that they have scored in nine of their last 10 matches so if they can tighten up at the back there are goals in this side.
Liverpool
It took so long for consistency to come in the Liverpool season that you could have been forgiven for thinking it was never going to arrive but finally they have it and will be looking to finish with three wins and hope it is enough to reach the Champions League. Liverpool go into this match off the back of six straight wins and are starting to look like the team which pushed Manchester City close for the title in recent campaigns.
We know this Liverpool team have goals in it. That has never been in question, where they have let themselves down this term has been at the back, where their 42 goals conceded is more than Chelsea who aren’t even in the top half of the table. With that in mind, it is a positive that they have kept successive clean sheets against Brentford and Fulham in their last two outings, although there was a bit of fortune involved in that.
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Team News
Leicester City boss Dean Smith will be able to call on full-back Ricardo Pereira for the first time in his tenure with the defender having returned from a hamstring injury. Kelechi Iheanacho remains out with his groin issue.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will once again be without Roberto Firmino and Naby Keita who have been out for the past few weeks. Curtis Jones is expected to get another start while Luis Diaz could come into the side.
Betting
I am fully expecting a raft of goal opportunities in this match if for no other reason than because anything but a win isn’t really an option for either team if they are going to achieve their objective. Liverpool are as good as done for the Champions League with anything but a win while Leicester need to find two wins from three at the very least. The positive for Leicester is that their goal difference is comfortably the best down the bottom so they have a few to play with should they want to take risks to win the game and leave themselves more exposed than is ideal.
The other reason to expect goals in this match is because neither defence is up to much this season and both front threes match up very well to the players who are opposing them. There were three goals in that crazy game between these two at Anfield just after Christmas when Leicester scored all three goals but Liverpool have clicked going forward since then. The need of the two could turn this into a crazy game in exactly the same way we saw last week’s Monday night offering become. I like the over here.
Tips
Back Over 3.5 goals for a 3/10 stake at 2.20 with Betfair
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