Leicester City vs Brighton Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔵
Leicester are unbeaten in all six of their Premier League meetings with Brighton (W4 D2), keeping a clean sheet in four of those six matches.
Brighton have won just one of their last eight away games against Leicester in all competitions (D3 L4), winning 4-1 in a Championship fixture in April 2014.
Leicester have lost four of their last six home Premier League games (W2), as many as they lost in their first 23 at the King Power under Brendan Rodgers (W14 D5) – defeat here would see them equal last season’s tally for home league defeats already in 2020/21 (4).
Brighton have won just two of their opening 11 games in the Premier League this season (D4 L5), their joint-fewest at this stage of a top-flight campaign in the club’s history (also two in 1979-80 and 1980-81).
Leicester went unbeaten against Brighton in the Premier League last season (W1 D1), while they faced just two shots on target across the two meetings. For the Seagulls, those two shots on target was their joint-fewest against a team in the Premier League last season, along with their total against Manchester City.
Brighton have picked up 14 points in their last eight away Premier League games (W4 D2 L2), as many as in their previous 20 on the road (W2 D8 L10).
Jamie Vardy’s 90th minute winner for Leicester at Sheffield United was the Foxes’ 10th goal scored in the final 20 minutes of Premier League games this season, the most of any club. It was also their fourth in the final five minutes of games, with only Man Utd (6) and Newcastle (5) scoring more.
Since Brendan Rodgers’ first Premier League match in charge of Leicester in March 2019, Jamie Vardy has scored 41 Premier League goals, eight more than any other player in the division in this time. Only Luis Suárez (54) has scored more goals in the Premier League under Brendan Rodgers than Vardy.
Brighton’s Neal Maupay has scored four goals in the Premier League this season from an expected goals total of 6.32 – his under-performance of 2.32 is the worst of any striker in the competition in 2020-21.
James Maddison registered his first Premier League assist of 2020 against Sheffield United, setting up Leicester’s winning goal with the 46th chance he had created this year. Maddison is looking to assist in back-to-back league games for the first time since August 2019.
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