Manchester City vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview

Manchester City vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview 

Manchester City have won nine of their last 10 Premier League games against Leicester, winning the last six in a row by an aggregate score of 15-4.

None of Leicester’s 12 Premier League away games against Manchester City have been drawn, with the Foxes winning five to City’s seven. Meanwhile, the 10 meetings between the pair at the Etihad Stadium in the competition have produced a total of 43 goals (Man City 25, Leicester 18).

Manchester City have won 21 of their last 22 Premier League games against newly promoted opposition (D1), including each of their last 12 in a row – the joint-longest such winning run in their top-flight history (also 12 in a row from December 2009 to December 2011).

Leicester City have lost 13 of their last 14 Premier League games (W1), including their last six in a row without scoring a single goal. In English top-flight history, only three sides have ever lost 7+ without scoring in succession – Sunderland (8 in January 1977), Ipswich (7 in April 1995), and Crystal Palace (8 in September 2017).

Manchester City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games in April – only Liverpool in December (15 between 2017 and 2020) and Manchester United in March (15 between 2005 and 2009) have had longer winning runs in a specific month in the competition.

Leicester have had the fewest shots (262) and expected goals (25.8) of any side in the Premier League this season, while conversely only Liverpool (492) have attempted more shots than Manchester City (466) in the competition this term.

Among all managers to take charge of 15+ Premier League games with a particular club, Ruud van Nistelrooy with Leicester has the joint-second highest loss rate (81.3% - 13 losses in 16 games), while Pep Guardiola with Manchester City has the second highest win percentage (71.8% - 239 wins in 333 games).

Leicester City have conceded the first goal in 24 of their 29 Premier League games this season – at least five more than anyone else. Should they fall 1-0 behind to Man City here, it will be the outright most times a team has conceded first in their opening 30 matches of a Premier League campaign (25), surpassing Ipswich’s record from 1994-95 (24).

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has scored 48 goals in 47 Premier League home games. Should he score twice against Leicester – which he did in his only previous home league game against them in April 2023 – he will be just the second player to reach 50 goals in fewer than 50 home appearances in the competition, after Alan Shearer, who scored his 50th in his 47th home match in February 1995.

All four of Omar Marmoush’s Premier League goals this season have come at the Etihad Stadium, the joint-most by any player to score 100% of their goals at home in the competition this term (Marc Cucurella also 4/4). The only players to score each of their first 5+ goals in the Premier League for Man City all at home are Paulo Wanchope (6), Raheem Sterling (9), and Phil Foden (5).