Team news and key Opta statistics to help with Fantasy Football selections and bets for Leicester's clash against West Brom on Monday night.
Monday October 16
Leicester City v West Bromwich Albion
- Kick-off time & date: Monday October 16, 1600 BST
- Venue: King Power Stadium
- TV Channel: Sky Sports Premier League
- Sky Bet odds: Leicester 19/20, Draw 12/5, West Brom 3/1
Team news
Jamie Vardy and Wilfred Ndidi will be fit when Leicester resume their Premier League campaign against West Brom at the King Power Stadium on Monday night.
Vardy was left out of the England squad due to an ongoing hip problem but the striker has recovered during the international break while a suspected hamstring injury sustained by Ndidi while playing for Nigeria turned out to be just cramp.
Defender Ben Chilwell (knee) was withdrawn from the England Under-21 squad as a precaution but he is also fit. Robert Huth (ankle) and Matty James (Achilles) remain unavailable.
Nacer Chadli, James Morrison and Hal Robson-Kanu are all doubts for West Brom.
Midfielders Chadli and Morrison have back and calf complaints respectively while Robson-Kanu has a strain which could see him miss Monday's game at the King Power Stadium.
Oliver Burke will be assessed after playing for Scotland Under-21s while Salomon Rondon will return from South America after international duty with Venezuela to link up with the squad on Saturday.
Leicester (from): Schmeichel, Jakupovic, Hamer, Simpson, Fuchs, Morgan, Chilwell, Maguire, Dragovic, Wasilewski, Benalouane, Iborra, Ndidi, Amartey, Gray, Albrighton, Mahrez, Musa, Vardy, Ulloa, Slimani, Okazaki, Iheanacho.
West Brom (from): Foster, Myhill, Nyom, Evans, Dawson, McAuley, Yuning, Hegazi, Gibbs, Brunt, Yacob, Morrison, Livermore, Field, Phillips, McClean, Barry, Rondon, Rodriguez, Chadli, Burke, Robson-Kanu, Krychowiak.
Opta Statistics
- These sides have met on just six previous occasions in the Premier League, with Leicester winning three and West Brom winning two. Leicester have never beaten West Brom on home soil in the Premier League, losing two and drawing one.
- The Baggies are unbeaten in each of their last seven away league games against Leicester City (W5 D2 L0), their longest ever run without defeat in Leicester.
- Leicester have won just five points from seven games so far this season, their joint-lowest return at this stage of a Premier League campaign alongside 1994-95, 2001-02 and 2003-04 – they were relegated at the end of each of those seasons.
- Leicester have won four of their last five Premier League home games on a Monday (L1), while West Brom have enjoyed just one victory from their previous 11 top-flight Monday games away from home (W1 D4 L6).
- Leicester have won just once in their last 10 Premier League matches under Craig Shakespeare (W1 D3 L6), this after winning seven of the first 10 under his stewardship.
- Tony Pulis has seen his sides score 316 goals in 317 Premier League games as a manager; no manager has a lower goals-per-game average in the competition (minimum 150 games).
- Under Tony Pulis, West Bromwich Albion have scored more set-piece goals (excl. penalties) than any other side in the Premier League (46).
- Jamie Vardy has scored in three of his last five Premier League games versus West Brom, although all three goals have been at The Hawthorns.
- Since Tony Pulis took over as WBA boss on January 1st 2015, Salomon Rondon has scored 18 Premier League goals – seven more than any other player for the club in that period. However, Rondon hasn’t scored in consecutive league appearances since September 2016.
- In Leicester’s title-winning campaign, Riyad Mahrez had a hand in 28 goals in 37 league appearances (17 goals, 11 assists). Since the start of last season, the Algerian winger has been involved in just 11 goals in 43 games (six goals, five assists).
