West Brom vs Leicester City Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics ✔️
✔️West Bromwich Albion have lost their last four Premier League home games against Leicester City - their longest ever losing streak at home to the Foxes.
✔️Leicester City have never won five consecutive away Premier League games against a single opponent, with their four straight wins versus West Brom their joint-best such streak in the competition (also vs Newcastle in January 2020).
✔️The home side has never won in eight previous Premier League meetings between West Bromwich Albion and Leicester (D2 L6) - only Bournemouth v Watford (10) has been played more in the competition without the home side ever winning.
✔️West Brom and Leicester City have both lost six times on the opening weekend of a Premier League season, although the Baggies have won their last two such matches and the Foxes are winless in four (D1 L3)
✔️West Brom have won their opening league match of the season in three of the last four campaigns (L1), having won just twice in their previous 18 (D6 L10).
✔️Leicester have won their opening Premier League match of the season in just one of their last 11 attempts (D5 L5), though that win came in their title-winning season in 2015-16, (4-2 against Sunderland).
✔️After collecting 24 points in an eight-game winning run between October and December 2019, Leicester won the same number of points in their final 22 Premier League matches of the 2019-20 season (W6 D6 L10).
✔️Leicester have faced newly-promoted sides on the opening day in the top-flight on six previous occasions and won none of those (D3 L3), losing most recently in 2016-17 as reigning champions against Hull City.
✔️West Brom's Matheus Pereira assisted 16 league goals in 2019-20, second only to Kevin De Bruyne (20) in England's top four tiers. The only previous Brazilian to appear for the Baggies in the Premier League was Sandro in 2016 (12 appearances).
✔️Leicester's Jamie Vardy has scored in all four of his away Premier League appearances against West Bromwich Albion - the only player in Premier League history to play more away matches against West Bromwich Albion - the only player in Premier League history to play more away matches against an opponent and score in each match is Ruud van Nistelrooy at Newcastle (scored in all five).
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