Leeds United vs Leicester City Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This is the first Premier League meeting between Leeds and Leicester since April 2004, with Leeds winning 3-2 at Elland Road in a season that saw both sides relegated.
Leicester have lost just two of their last 13 league meetings with Leeds (W5 D6), with this the first such meeting between the sides since a 1-0 win for the Foxes in January 2014.
Leicester have won five of their last eight away league games against Leeds (D1 L2), more than they had in their previous 37 visits to Elland Road (W4 D9 L24).
Leicester have never won away from home in the Premier League in games played on Monday (D3 L9), with this their first such game since a 0-1 loss to Man City in May 2019.
Leeds United have won 15 of their last 20 league matches (D2 L3) and only Liverpool (66) and Manchester City (60) have won more league matches in England’s top four tiers than the Whites since Marcelo Bielsa took charge in August 2018 (57).
Leicester City will be looking to win five of their first seven games to a top-flight season for the first time in their history.
Since Brendan Rodgers took charge of his first Leicester City game in March 2019, only Liverpool (45) and Manchester City (37) have won more Premier League games than the Foxes (27), while their points total in this period (91) is bettered by just three sides (Liverpool 140, Man City 116, Chelsea 94).
Leeds have scored 12 goals in the Premier League this season, the most by a newly promoted team since Middlesbrough in 1992-93 (also 12). The Whites have scored 3+ goals in three of their first six games (against Liverpool, Fulham and Aston Villa), the first newly promoted team to do that since Luton Town in 1982-83.
Leeds striker Patrick Bamford has scored six goals in his first six league matches this season, the first Whites player to score as many as six goals in the club’s first six league games of a season since Jermaine Beckford in 2008-09, and the first to do so in a top-flight season since Eric Cantona in 1992-93.
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has scored 12 goals in his last 15 Premier League appearances against newly promoted teams, including nine goals in his last seven such matches.
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