Leicester City start their 2020/21 Europa League group stage campaign in a home encounter with Zorya Luhansk on Thursday. The kick-off is at 21:00 CET.

Preview

Even though the Foxes have begun the season with three consecutive wins in the Premier League, including a 5-2 thrashing of Man City, Brendan Rodgers' side come to their EL opener on the back of two straight league defeats.

Zorya, for their part, have endured a disastrous start to their campaign in the Ukrainian Premier League, winning just one out of their six starting games. Viktor Skripnik's side lost some of their key players in the summer transfer window and it would be fair to say that those departures haven't gone unnoticed.

Now, let's take you to the team news for both sides as that's where things start to get interesting.

Jamie Vardy, Caglar Soyuncu, Daniel Amartey, Ricardo Pereira and Wilfred Ndidi will all miss out Zorya's visit to England through injuries, meaning that Rodgers will be without a key performer in almost each of the lines.

Zauri Makharadze and Maksym Kasakov, in turn, are the only absentees in Skripnik's squad.

Prediction

A Ukrainian club is yet to win a single game in England after 32 attempts over the years and Zorya are very unlikely to be the first to do so this time around. The thing is that Vardy is out with injury and his back-up Kelechi Iheanacho hasn't proved himself a decent goalscorer ever since joining the club in 2017. We'd say that you can a expect a narrow win from the Foxes on Thursday.

Tip

Total under 2.5 at 2.205 with 1XBET.