Leicester City vs Oxford United - prediction, team news, lineups

Leicester City volition look to grounds a 2nd consecutive triumph erstwhile they invited Oxford United to King Power Stadium for Saturday's League One contest.

The Foxes are sitting successful 13th spot in the standings, portion the visitors are 1 constituent further backmost successful 15th position. 

Match preview

Leicester whitethorn person a sluggish commencement to their bid to instrumentality to the Championship return, mustering conscionable 2 points from Russell Martin's archetypal 3 league games successful charge.

A people gully against Notts County was followed by a 2-1 decision to Burton earlier they played retired a goalless matter against Martin's erstwhile broadside MK Dons.

The Foxes yet secured their archetypal triumph of the play successful Tuesday's location clash against Plymouth, with Will Alves and Harry Howell some striking successful first-half stoppage clip successful a 2-0 victory.

After signaling back-to-back cleanable sheets, Leicester volition beryllium targeting different beardown antiaircraft show successful Saturday's gathering against an Oxford broadside that dropped down with them from the Championship past term. 

The Foxes mustered conscionable 1 constituent from their 2 meetings with the U's successful 2025-26, which extended their winless head-to-head tally to 4 competitory matches.

As a result, they person not beaten Oxford since picking up a constrictive 2-1 location triumph successful a second-tier clash successful April 1993. 

Like Leicester, Oxford person started the play with a caller caput manager aft appointing Aaron Ramsey arsenic Matt Bloomfield's successor.

Ramsey has started his archetypal imperishable managerial occupation with mixed results, having seen his squad instrumentality 4 points from their opening 3 league games.

After losing 2-0 to Leyton Orient successful the EFL Cup archetypal round, the U's required a precocious equaliser to rescue a 2-2 gully against MK Dons earlier they recorded a 2-1 distant triumph against Stevenage. 

However, they were incapable to physique upon Ramsey's archetypal triumph successful Tuesday's distant gathering with Huddersfield, falling to a 3-1 decision aft concisely restoring parity done Gaitlin O'Donkor.

Joe Taylor's quickfire brace condemned Ramsey's broadside to their archetypal decision of the League One season, extending Oxford's winless head-to-head tally to six matches.

They person to rapidly prime themselves up for a 3rd consecutive distant game, wherever they volition person the accidental to triumph astatine the King Power Stadium successful 2026 aft prevailing by a 2-1 scoreline successful January.

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Team News

Leicester volition person to measure goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk, who was stretchered disconnected successful the opening stages of the 3-0 triumph implicit Plymouth.

Ben Nelson is acceptable to miss astir of the play with a superior genu injury, portion Conor Chaplin is improbable to diagnostic aft being forced disconnected successful past weekend’s gully with MK Dons.

Kamari Doyle, John Lundstram and Emil Riis could diagnostic successful the matchday squad aft joining the nine connected transportation deadline day.

As for the visitors, they are incapable to telephone upon the services of Jason Cumming, Ruben Roosken and Jeon Jin-woo owed to injury.

Winger Aidomo Emakhu is an wounded uncertainty aft missing the midweek decision to Huddersfield with a knock. 

Attacker Luka Lynch could diagnostic among the substitutes aft arriving connected a short-term indebtedness woody from Aston Villa.

Leicester City imaginable starting lineup:

McCarthy; Joseph, Souttar, Thomas, McFarlane; Page; Howell, Decordova-Reid, Braybrooke, Alves; Bristric

Oxford United imaginable starting lineup:

Eastwood; Spencer, Long, Brown, Currie; McDonnell, Brannagan; Missanga, O’Donkor, Dembele; Harris

We say: Leicester City 2- Oxford United

Oxford person troubled the scorers successful each of their 3 league games, but they person shown vulnerability successful the antiaircraft 3rd that could play into Leicester's hands.

In contrast, the Foxes person shown signs of a resolute backline, and we deliberation their defence could supply the instauration for different palmy location outing.

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