Leicester City vs Wolves Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Leicester have lost just one of their last 23 home league games against Wolves (W13 D9), with that defeat coming in the Championship in May 2007 (1-4).
In the top-flight, Wolves are winless in their last 10 away games against Leicester (D4 L6) since a 2-1 win in December 1971. Wolves have failed to score in six of their last seven top-flight matches at Filbert Street/King Power Stadium.
Half of the six Premier League games between Leicester and Wolves have finished 0-0, with the other three producing a total of 16 goals.
No team has won more Premier League games than Leicester so far this season (5), while coming into this weekend’s games only Spurs (18) have scored more goals than the Foxes (17) so far.
Leicester have lost three of their last four home Premier League games (W1), as many as in their previous 20 at the King Power Stadium (W12 D5 L3). The Foxes have lost their last two at home by an aggregate score of 0-4 – they’ve not lost three home league games in a row without scoring since September 1983.
Wolves are unbeaten in their last four Premier League games (W3 D1), earning as many points (10) in this run as they had from their previous 27 available in the competition (W3 D1 L5).
Leicester have the best shot conversion rate in the Premier League this season, netting with 26.2% of their efforts (17/65).
Rayan Ait Nouri scored on his Premier League debut for Wolves against Crystal Palace. He is looking to become only the fourth teenager to score in his first two Premier League appearances, after Alan Smith (1998, Leeds), Federico Macheda (2009, Man Utd) and Anthony Martial (2015, Man Utd).
Leicester’s Jamie Vardy has scored seven goals in his six Premier League games this season, as many as he had in his previous 19 appearances in the competition. 69% of Vardy’s Premier League goals have come since he’s turned 30 (76/110) – of the 29 players to score at least 100 in the competition, only Ian Wright netted a higher percentage aged 30+ (82% - 93/113).
Leicester’s Youri Tielemans has scored three goals in his seven Premier League appearances this season, already matching his tally from both 2018-19 (13 games) and 2019-20 (37 games) in the competition.
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