In this 10th week match, on Saturday Oct 8th, AFC Bournemouth hosts Leicester City at Vitality Stadium in a Premier League match. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, 13th placed AFC Bournemouth, recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Brentford. Neither AFC Bournemouth nor Brentford could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 7 and 13 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. AFC Bournemouth is looking for direction having earned 11 points in their last 10 matches, while leicester City is fresh off their 4-0 shutout win against Nottingham Forest. James Maddison scored the first goal for Leicester City in the 25th minute, then Harvey Barnes added another in the 27th minute on a feed from Jamie Vardy At the end of 90 a dissapointed Nottingham Forest couldn’t manage to score, and Leicester City took the shutout win. Leicester City looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 6 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
James Maddison has been the most prolific scorer on Leicester City in the last five matches with 3 goals. AFC Bournemouth’s top weapon lately has been Philip Billing, who has 2 goals in the last 5 matches
Gary O’Neil’s squad will be without Lloyd Kelly, David Brooks, Joe Rothwell and Ben Pearson, while Ryan Bertrand, Wilfred Ndidi and Ricardo Pereira are unavailable to play for Brendan Rodgers’s team.