There are two games to look forward to in the Premier League on Sunday, one of which takes place at Selhurst Park as Crystal Palace host Leicester City. This is the first of two games to be played on Sunday and both teams will be feeling confident of taking something from the match.
Crystal Palace begin the weekend in 6th place in the Premier League having taken 15 points from their 10 games. Leicester City will start in 3rd place in the league with 20 points from the same number of matches.
Crystal Palace conceded 2 early goals at Arsenal last weekend and it appeared as though they were going to be easily defeated. However, they showed great fighting spirit to get a goal back from the penalty spot in the first half and then find the equalizer in the second half to secure a good draw.
That result means The Eagles have lost only one of their last 5 Premier League games. During that time, Crystal Palace have defeated Norwich City at home and West Ham United away. They have also picked up a point at home against Wolverhampton Wanderers and away to Arsenal.
Trends show Crystal Palace have lost only one of their last 8 games in all competitions at home. They have kept a clean sheet in 4 of their last 6 home matches in all competitions and have scored in each of their last 4 home games.
Leicester City secured their place in the quarter final of the League Cup on Tuesday night as they defeated Burton 3-1 away from home. It was a much changed team to that which recorded an astonishing 9-0 away victory at Southampton in their previous Premier League match. Southampton had a player sent off early in the game and Leicester City took full advantage of their confusion to score 9 goals without reply.
That result means Leicester City have won each of their last 3 games in all competitions, with a 2-1 home Premier League win over Burnley adding to the two victories above. In fact, The Foxes have won 6 of their last 7 games in all competitions and 4 of their last 5 in the Premier League.
Leicester City have seen both teams score in 13 of their last 17 away matches in all competitions.
Team news and Crystal Palace have goalkeeper Vicente Guaita back in training and he could start the game. There are doubts over the fitness of Connor Wickham, Mamadou Sakho and Luke Dreher.
Leicester City managed to rest some of their key players in the League Cup on Tuesday night. Matthew James Is the only doubt and expect to see Jamie Vardy, Harvey Barnes, Ben Chilwell and Ricardo Pereira among others coming back into the team.
At the beginning of this season, not many people would have predicted this would be a game between two top 6 teams. However, that's exactly what we have got and we should see both teams scoring and over 2.5 goals in what could be a very exciting game. If you were to back a winner, it is hard to ignore Leicester City in current form.