WOLVERHAMPTON – LEICESTER | Sunday 3pm
Both used to hang around in the top flight in recent seasons, Wolverhampton and Leicester are currently looking for points in order to get out of the relegation zone. After Nottingham Forest’s surprising victory over Liverpool in Saturday afternoon’s early match, the Foxes found themselves back in last place. Since a few days, however, Brendan Rodgers’ men – confirmed despite the disastrous start – have been showing signs of awakening, also taking advantage of a more lenient calendar. In the last two matches, between Crystal Palace and Leeds, they have brought home four points. And at the moment it is the longest positive streak.
Wolves have barely a point to their name and were unable to follow up their narrow success against Nottingham Forest last week. In fact, in the midweek round they lost again, surrendering 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace. Ferryman Steve Davis remains on the bench, with Bruno Lage’s replacement Michael Beale preferring to remain at Queens Park Rangers for the time being.
The Prediction
A match that, in theory, should not offer too many emotions, considering that the two teams are in desperate need of points and whose priority will be not to lose. There is always very little scoring at Molineux: the total number of goals is likely to be less than three. Leicester, in our opinion, should be able to avoid defeat.
The likely Wolverhampton-Leicester line-up
- WOLVERHAMPTON (4-3-3): José Sa; Semedo, Collins, Kilman, Bueno; Moutinho, Neves, Nunes; Traore, Podence, Diego Costa.
- LEICESTER (4-5-1): Ward; Castagne, Amartey, Faes, Justin; Soumaré, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Maddison, Barnes; Daka.
