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No shock that West Ham are unchanged after that win on the Emirates. Ruud van Nisetlrooy makes three modifications to the Leicester facet that was thrashed by Brentford final Friday: James Justin, Jannik Vestergaard and Facundo Buonanotte exchange Woyo Coulibaly, Caleb Okoli and Jordan Ayew.
West Ham (3-5-2) Areola; Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell; Wan-Bissaka, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Alvarez, Scarles; Bowen, Kudus.
Substitutes: Fabianski, Soler, Mavropanos, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez,
Emerson Palmieri, Ferguson, Irving.
Leicester (4-2-3-1) Hermansen; Justin, Faes, Vestergaard, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Soumare; Buonanotte, El Khannouss, De Cordova-Reid; Vardy.
Substitutes: Stolarczyk, Coady, Okoli, Winks, Mavididi, Ayew, Daka,
Skipp, Thomas.
Referee Anthony Taylor.
Preamble
For those who’re of a sure age, League Ladders are in all probability amongst your happier childhood recollections. They had been a vital a part of each soccer season – nicely, least till November while you realised your staff wasn’t going to win the league or get promoted and it grew to become far an excessive amount of problem.
By the requirements of recent life, they appear a bit restricted. Take tonight’s match behind West Ham and Leicester Metropolis. The League Ladders – assuming you hadn’t given up in November – would present that it’s sixteenth v nineteenth within the desk. However they wouldn’t inform us that these groups, simply three locations aside close to the underside of the Premier League, reside in numerous worlds.
West Ham are 13 factors away from Leicester and cautiously optimistic about their future underneath Graham Potter, particularly after Saturday’s win at Arsenal. Leicester, against this, are trapped in a doom loop and appear virtually sure to go down.
Nonetheless, you by no means know. The one motive Leicester might produce the Premier League’s best miracle in 2015-16 was due to a unprecedented escape 12 months earlier. At one stage in 2014-15 Leicester took two factors from 14 video games; then, after one other depressing run of two factors in eight video games, they discovered themselves backside of the desk with 9 video games to go, seven factors off security.
A 2-1 win over – yep – West Ham was the beginning of an astonishing run: seven wins out of 9, and a comfortable 14th-place end. As unlikely because it appears proper now, there are precedents for a Leicester revival. Nevertheless it wants to start out fairly quickly.
Kick off 8pm.
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