Leicester City and Norwich City will face off in the Premier League matchday 1 at the King Power Stadium on Saturday. The kick-off is at 17:00 CEST.

Preview

Even though Leicester were humiliated by Manchester City in a 6-3 loss at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, it didn't take long Brendan Rodgers' men to return to winning ways as they sensationally defeated Liverpool 1-0 thanks to Ademola Lookman's strike in the following PL game on Tuesday. By doing so, the Foxes have only claimed their second victory in the last five matches across all competitions. Hence, Leicester are coming into this encounter in the ninth place in the table with 25 points taken from 18 games.

Norwich, in turn, suffered a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of Arsenal last weekend before being destoyed 3-0 at Crystal Palace in mid-week. That was the fifth consecutive loss for Dean Smith's side which continue to sit at the very bottom of the table with 10 points.

Team news

What made the Foxes' victory over Liverpool even more sensational is the absence of around a half of their squad for various reasons, mostly injuries. Wesley Fofana, Ricardo Pereira, James Justin and Nampalys Mendy will play no part for the hosts this time around too but Jonny Evans and Caglar Soyuncu could be avaialble again. Grant Hanley and Mathias Normann, meanwhile, won't help the visitors on the weekend through injury while Tim Krul and Teemu Pukki are both unavailable after testing positive for Covid-19 lately.

Prediction

Given Leicester's problems with consistency this season so far, it would be no surprise to see them struggling even against rock-bottom Norwich. However, the Canaries have also failed to find the back of the net at least once during their current streak of five defeats in the league on the bounce, so we can't really expect anything else but Leicester's confident triumph on Saturday.

Tip

Leicester to win at total over 1.5 at 1.61 with 1XBET.