Leicester City vs Wigan Athletic - prediction, team news, lineups

Leicester City big Wigan Athletic astatine the King Power Stadium successful Sky Bet League One connected Tuesday, with kick-off astatine 7:45pm GMT.

The lucifer was moved from an international-break day to a Tuesday night, and it pairs a 13th-placed Leicester broadside that sits 10 points connected the League One table down Huddersfield Town with a Wigan squad that has taken 7 points from 11 games.

Match preview

Leicester, successful their archetypal third-tier play since 2008-09 aft back-to-back relegations, person collected 15 points from 11 league games, winning four, drafting 3 and losing four, with 17 goals scored and 17 conceded.

Saturday’s 2-1 decision astatine Luton Town ended a two-match winning run, aft Nahki Wells scored successful the 39th minute, Liam Cullen levelled successful the 90th and Callum Marshall struck successful the 4th infinitesimal of stoppage time.

Captain John Lundstram was sent disconnected successful the 85th infinitesimal for a 2nd yellowish paper aft a lunge connected Isaiah Jones, and the one-match suspension that follows forces Russell Martin to rework his midfield.

Martin has been nether unit since a 4-0 location decision to Oxford United connected September 5, erstwhile Mark Harris scored doubly and the assemblage astatine the King Power Stadium chanted for the manager to beryllium sacked.

The effect was a 4-3 distant triumph astatine Stockport County, 1-1 gully astatine Barnsley and a 6-1 triumph implicit Fulham U21 successful the Football Trophy League earlier the September/October planetary break.

After the break, the Foxes were beaten 2-1 astatine Stevenage successful the Football Trophy League connected October 6, a 3-1 location decision to Peterborough followed 4 days later, earlier a 2-1 location triumph implicit Doncaster Rovers connected October 17, and a 4-0 triumph astatine Bromley connected Tuesday, October 20.

Wigan are bottommost of League One connected 7 points from 11 games, with 2 wins, 1 draw, 8 defeats and a extremity quality of -9.

Gary Caldwell's squad mislaid 2-1 astatine Huddersfield Town connected Saturday, October 24, aft goals from Ilias Bronkhorst successful the 34th infinitesimal and Derensili Sanches Fernandes successful the 80th, with Christian Saydee’s consolation arriving successful stoppage time.

The Latics person scored 8 goals successful 11 league games, and earlier Saturday’s lucifer Joe Taylor’s 8 for Huddersfield were 1 much than Wigan’s full squad had managed.

The erstwhile league crippled brought a 2-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Oxford United connected Tuesday, October 20, wherever Saydee’s equaliser was followed wrong 7 minutes by Fraser Murray’s consecutive reddish paper and the winning goal.

The 1 caller agleam spot was a 1-0 location triumph implicit Reading connected Saturday, October 17, erstwhile Scott Hogan scored the lone extremity from an assistance by Saydee, who had returned from wounded disconnected the bench.

The sides past met successful the FA Cup 3rd circular connected January 4, 2020, erstwhile Leicester won 2-0 astatine the King Power Stadium done a Tom Pearce ain extremity and a Harvey Barnes strike, and their past league gathering was a 2-2 gully astatine Wigan connected April 1, 2014.

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Team News

Lundstram misses the crippled done a one-match ban, with Smallbone expected to instrumentality his spot successful cardinal midfield.

Jayden Joseph, Jakub Stolarczyk and Ben Nelson stay unavailable, which has kept Will Alves astatine wing-back, portion Conor Chaplin has been gathering his minutes from the seat and Wes Burns is backmost aft recovering from illness.

Cullen, who scored astatine Luton, could beryllium recalled successful onslaught aft starting among the substitutes alongside Chaplin and Bobby De Cordova-Reid.

For the visitors, Murray serves the 2nd crippled of a three-match suspension for his reddish paper astatine Oxford.

Gray collected his 5th yellowish paper of the play astatine Huddersfield, which brings an automatic one-match ban, portion James Carragher returns aft missing the Oxford crippled for the aforesaid reason.

Luke Harris and Ryan Trevitt stay semipermanent absentees and Max Power is simply a doubt, portion Caldwell watched the Huddersfield crippled from the stands serving a prohibition for accumulated yellowish cards, with David Perkins successful the method area.

Leicester City imaginable starting lineup:

McCarthy; O’Hora, Souttar, Okoli; Alves, Page, Smallbone, Thomas; Braybrooke, Cullen; Riis

Wigan Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Whitworth; Fox, Carragher, Burns; Barrett, Weir, Walsh, Burrowes, A. Harris; Saydee, Hogan

We say: Leicester City 2-1 Wigan Athletic

Leicester should triumph due to the fact that Wigan person taken 1 constituent from six league distant games and mean less than 1 extremity per game, portion Riis with 4 goals and Cullen with 3 springiness Martin the much reliable scoring options.

The counter-argument is Leicester’s location grounds of 3 defeats successful 5 league games astatine the King Power Stadium - we volition spell for a 2-1 location win.

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