In this week 29 match, on Saturday Apr 1st, Crystal Palace will play host to Leicester City in a meeting of these two closely matched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cold day, and temperatures reaching a maximum of only 4 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. 12th placed Crystal Palace is fresh off their 1-4 loss against Arsenal. Martinelli scored the first goal for Arsenal in the 28th minute, then Bukayo Saka added another in the 43rd minute. Crystal Palace looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while leicester City sits at 17th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Brentford. Mathias Jensen struck first for Brentford in the 32nd minute, then Harvey Barnes tied it up for Leicester City in the 52nd minute on a feed from James Maddison earning Leicester City at least a draw. Leicester City looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 6 of their last 10.
On Saturday Oct 15th, Leicester City hosted Crystal Palace in their last match together. Leicester City and Crystal Palace battled to a 0-0 draw in front of just over 31000. Neither Leicester City nor Crystal Palace could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 14 and 8 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,.
Leicester City hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last five matches are Kelechi Iheanacho and Patson Daka, and they each have 1 goal.
Roy Hodgson’s squad will be without Guaita and Sam Johnstone, while Brendan Rodgers’s Leicester City squad will be without Ryan Bertrand, Youri Tielemans, James Justin and Victor Kristansen.