Manchester City vs Leicester City Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔵
Manchester City have won six of their last seven Premier League games against Leicester City, losing the other 1-2 on Boxing Day in the 2018-19 season.
Leicester have lost each of their last four Premier League trips to Manchester City since a 3-1 win in the Foxes' title-winning 2015-16 season; this is their longest away league losing streak to the Citizens since August 1961 (five games).
Manchester City have never lost their opening home match in any of their last 25 top-flight campaigns (W16 D9), with their last such defeat coming in the 1989-90 campaign against Southampton (1-2).
Leicester have never won their opening three matches in a single top-flight campaign before -the last time the Foxes did so in any division was in the 1922-23 second tier.
Man City are unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League home games (W10 D1 ), scoring at least twice in each match. Indeed, the Citizens have won their last seven at the Etihad by an aggregate score of 26-1.
Manchester City have been leading by 2+ goals at half-time in each of their last six Premier League matches, a record such run in the competition's history.
Man City's Kevin De Bruyne has been involved in 13 goals in his last 10 Premier League starts (7 goals, 6 assists). He's only failed to register a single goal involvement in two of those eight games, though one of those was against Leicester (1-0 in February).
Man City striker Gabriel Jesus has scored in four of his five Premier League appearances against Leicester (four goals); only against Everton (7) has he netted more in the competition.
Leicester's Jamie Vardy has scored five and assisted one more in his last eight appearances against Man City in the Premier League, netting at the Etihad last term.
He's also the only player to score a top-flight hat-trick against a side managed by Pep Guardiola, doing so in the Foxes 4-2 win against Man City in December 2016.
Manchester City have won 34 of the 35 Premier League games in which Gabriel Jesus has scored, the highest such win rate for any player in the competition (97.1 %, min. 20 games scored).
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The Citizens have won the last 32 league games in which the Brazilian has found the net.
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