Leicester City vs Man City: EPL preview, team news, how to follow, stream

Who: Leicester City vs Manchester City
What: English Premier League
Where: King Power Stadium, Leicester, United Kingdom
When: 12:30pm (12:30 GMT) connected Sunday
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Pep Guardiola insists helium volition not locomotion retired connected troubled Manchester City arsenic helium strives to halt the champions’ stunning decline.

The Spaniard, whose broadside sojourn Leicester City connected Sunday, lone precocious signed a two-year declaration extension but City’s dismal signifier has raised questions astir his future. A nightmare tally of nine defeats successful 13 games, with conscionable 1 triumph successful that woeful spell, triggered suggestions the City brag could determine to discontinue if helium cannot find an reply to his team’s problems.

Having led City to six Premier League titles successful the past 7 seasons, however, Guardiola is adamant helium inactive has the hunger to crook the concern around.

“I volition try, I volition support going. Sometimes you deliberation the atrocious tally volition beryllium ended earlier oregon it would beryllium easier to hole it, but it takes much time,” helium told reporters successful the run-up to Sunday’s match. “I volition not springiness up. I privation to beryllium here. I privation to bash it and, with the concern that we have, we person to bash it.

“Of course, I privation it, everyone wants it. I don’t privation to disappoint my radical successful presumption of the club, the fans, the radical who emotion this club. I deliberation each of america successful our occupation privation to bash it good and delight the people. That is undeniable, not a question mark.

“The biggest trial is to travel backmost again, but we person done that before.”

Pep Guardiola has not antecedently endured specified a barren tally successful his vocation [Carl Recine/Getty Images]

Guardiola won’t criticise successful City crisis

Injuries person been a large origin successful City’s decline, leaving them languishing successful seventh spot successful the Premier League.

Most especially, the gaping spread near by Ballon d’Or victor Rodri, arsenic helium recovers from a semipermanent genu injury. Nor person matters been helped by the erratic signifier successful an inconsistent play by the usually prolific Erling Haaland, who missed a punishment that could person sealed a City triumph against Everton successful their past match.

Haaland has scored conscionable erstwhile successful his past 7 games, but Guardiola refused to blasted the Norway striker oregon immoderate of his teammates.

“I don’t person it successful my acquisition to commencement complaining, to constituent astatine people. It’s happened, it’s life, it’s football, truthful let’s effort it again,” helium said.

“That’s wherefore we person had success, due to the fact that ever it is ne'er enough, we volition effort it again and again and again. That’s wherefore we won a batch of titles.

“Every 3 days it was a crippled and win, win, triumph for many, galore months and years. Now, we person to bash the aforesaid erstwhile results are not good.”

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— Premier League (@premierleague) December 28, 2024

City inactive person doubts astir the fittingness of respective players arsenic they bid to get backmost to winning ways astatine struggling Leicester, who person won lone 1 of their past 11

“Sometimes you person injuries,” Guardiola said. “For however galore years we were incredibly accordant but now, yes, we’re a small spot down and the main crushed is having truthful galore important players injured.

“But I saw the squad spirit, however we trained this week, however focused they are, however they effort to practise.”

Manchester City’s gully with Everton ended their three-game losing streak [Molly Darlington/Getty Images]

Leicester City squad news

Jordan Ayew, who is suspended aft the guardant was booked for the 5th clip this play during the decision by Liverpool successful Leicester’s past outing.

Captain Jamie Vardy should beryllium acceptable to instrumentality from a insignificant knock, but Wout Faes misses retired again successful defence.

Man City squad news

Long-term absentee Rodri was joined connected the sidelines by Ruben Dias, John Stones, Ederson, Kyle Walker, Jack Grealish and Matheus Nunes for the 1-1 gully with Everton.

Head-to-head

This is the 128th gathering betwixt the clubs, of which City person won connected 64 occasions, portion Leicester person travel distant the spoils pursuing 32 of the encounters.

City person won the past 5 league meetings, scoring 10 goals successful the past 3 of those, portion Leicester could lone interruption up that tally with a Community Shield triumph pursuing the 2020-21 title-winning season.

Leicester’s past league triumph came successful that run with a 5-2 triumph astatine City, and included a hat-trick from Vardy. The reverse crippled astatine King Power Stadium resulted successful a 2-0 scoreline that gave City the 3 points and began their existent ascendant streak implicit the Foxes successful the league.

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— Premier League (@premierleague) December 28, 2024

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