In a weekend match in week 20, on Saturday Jan 14th, Leicester City will travel to Nottingham to battle Nottingham Forest in a clash of these two evenly matched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 6 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Nottingham Forest sits at 15th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-4 loss against Blackpool. Marvin Ekpiteta scored the first goal for Blackpool in the 17th minute, then Ian Poveda-Ocampo added another in the 64th minute on a feed from Jerry Yates. Nottingham Forest is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while leicester City sits at 13th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Gillingham. Kelechi Iheanacho scored the first goal for Leicester City in the 56th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring At the end of 90 a dissapointed Gillingham couldn’t manage to score, and Leicester City took the shutout win. Leicester City is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match on Oct 3rd, Leicester City was victorious by a score of 4 to 0 in front of just over 32000 excited fans. 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 In the end, Nottingham Forest was frustrated by Leicester City’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Leicester City ended the match with the shutout victory.
Leicester City hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Kelechi Iheanacho, and they each have 1 goal. Nottingham Forest’s most prolific scorer has been Taiwo Awoniyi. The Nigerian attacker has netted two goals over the last five matches
Moussa Niakhaté, Giulian Biancone, Cheikhou Kouyaté and Omar Richards are unavailable to play for Steve Cooper’s team, while Ryan Bertrand, James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans and James Justin are unavailable to play for Brendan Rodgers’s team.