Ipswich Town vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview

Ipswich have won all three of their Premier League home games against Leicester – 4-1 in January 1995, 2-0 in January 2001 and 2-0 in December 2001.

Leicester have lost just one of their last nine league games against Ipswich (W5 D3), with both meetings between the sides in the Championship last season finishing level.

Ipswich remain winless in their nine Premier League games so far this season – in their league history only in 2009-10 (first 14) and 2018-19 (first 11) have they had a longer winless run from the start of a campaign.

Leicester City came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in their last Premier League away game, which was also against fellow promoted opposition (Southampton). It ended a run of 11 top-flight away games without a win for the Foxes, last winning consecutive such matches in November 2022 (a run of three).

Ipswich have dropped 10 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, with only Brentford (11) dropping more. Indeed the Tractor Boys let a two-goal lead slip to lose 4-3 in their last match.

Leicester City have faced more shots than any other side in the Premier League this season (168) while Ipswich Town have the highest xG against in the competition this term (21.5).

Despite having the fewest shots on target in the Premier League this season (26), Leicester City have scored 13 goals so far. Their record of scoring with 50% of their shots on target is the highest shot on target conversion so far this term.

Ipswich Town have been ahead for the shortest amount of time in the Premier League this season (47 minutes, 9 seconds), and trailing for the longest amount of time so far (439 minutes, 26 seconds).

Liam Delap has scored 56% of Ipswich’s Premier League goals this season (5/9) – only Chris Wood has netted a higher share of his team’s goals so far this term (64% for Nottingham Forest).

Leicester’s Jamie Vardy has scored four goals in nine Premier League games this season, one more than he managed in 37 appearances in his last top-flight campaign of 2022-23. He’s scored in his last two games, and aged 37 years and 296 days on the day of this game would be the oldest player to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances with a goal here.