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Key occasions
20 min Partey sprays a crossfield go straight out of play. It’s all a bit scruffy for the time being.
18 min Possession proportion: Leicester 38-62 Arsenal.
16 min Nwaneri, who has began effectively, flips a cross that’s headed throughout aim and huge by Rice. It was a troublesome probability as he noticed it late with Justin leaping in entrance of him.
15 min A harmful cross from El Khannouss simply evades Vardy and lands behind Ayew on the far put up.
13 min Partey’s snapshot from 22 yards is blocked. Leicester have defended effectively up to now.
10 min Soumare’s cross is headed away to the sting of the world. Ndidi meets it with a crisp left-foot volley that’s too near Raya.
9 min Odegaard teases a chip over the defence in direction of Trossard, who flicks a volley that’s saved to his proper by Hermansen. He was offside so it wouldn’t have counted.
7 min Arsenal are settling into their passing rhythm. Nonetheless no openings to talk of, by no means thoughts possibilities.
4 min Nothing to report but. Leicester have began brightly sufficient although, and the environment is tremalesdous.
2 min “What number of saloons would there have been in a typical Dodge-Metropolis kind Western city of the mid-Nineteenth century?” muses Charles Antaki. “Some cities had been presumably not more than a set of some shacks, however a considerable settlement could have had, what, half a dozen fronting onto a dusty Essential Avenue.
“Raheem Sterling hasn’t truly began greater than a few video games for Arsenal, so let’s give him the advantage of the doubt and say he’s acquired three extra earlier than he will get to the Final Likelihood Saloon. He’s on the pre-penultimate, I believe it’s. Nonetheless time. But it surely’s practically run out. A hat-trick at the moment would assist.
1 min Peep peep! They’re underneath means on the King Energy Stadium.
A reminder of the groups
Leicester (4-2-3-1) Hermansen; Justin, Okoli, Faes, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Soumare; De Cordova-Reid, El Khannouss, Ayew; Vardy.
Substitutes: Stolarczyk, Coulibaly, Coady, Vestergaard, Winks, Skipp, Buonanotte, Mavididi, Daka.
Arsenal (4-1-4-1) Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Partey; Nwaneri, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling; Trossard.
Substitutes: Neto, Tierney, White, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Merino, Calafiori, Butler-Oyedeji.
“As a Chelsea fan, Kaoru Mitoma made my life troublesome final evening,” begins Krishnamoorthy V, “but it surely additionally transported to soccer heaven.”
For those who haven’t seen it, simply see it.
Pre-match studying
Group information
Leicester make two modifications from their unlucky FA Cup defeat at Previous Trafford. Victor Kristiansen is available in for Luke Thomas at left-back; Jamie Vardy replaces Patson Daka up entrance.
Arsenal make two modifications, each enforced, to the group that misplaced at Newcastle within the Carabao Cup. Raheem Sterling and Ethan Nwaneri are available for the injured Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz. It appears to be like like Leandro Trossard might be their centre-forward.
Leicester (4-2-3-1) Hermansen; Justin, Okoli, Faes, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Soumare; De Cordova-Reid, El Khannouss, Ayew; Vardy.
Substitutes: Stolarczyk, Coulibaly, Coady, Vestergaard, Winks, Skipp, Buonanotte, Mavididi, Daka.
Arsenal (4-1-4-1) Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Partey; Nwaneri, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling; Trossard.
Substitutes: Neto, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Tierney, Kiwior, White, Jorginho, Merino, Butler-Oyedeji.
Referee Sam Barrott.
Preamble
So that you’re saying there’s an opportunity? Arsenal are nonetheless extremely unlikely to win the Premier League this season, however James Tarkowski’s scorching equaliser on Wednesday has given them a soupçon of hope. They’re seven factors behind Liverpool with 14 video games to play – one in all them, tantalisingly, at Anfield in Could.
Arsenal have gone on spectacular title-winning runs earlier than – 10 straight wins in 1997-98, 12 in 2001-02 – and they’ll most likely want one other to reel in Liverpool. Their damage record makes issues a complete lot more durable, however not less than they’re nonetheless within the dialog.
Leicester are in a unique league, a mini-league with Ipswich and Wolves on the backside. Two might be relegated, one will survive. Ruud van Nistelrooy denied Arsenal the title in 2002-03 and possibly 2004-05; he’d like to do the identical at the moment.
Kick off 12.30pm GMT.