Burnley welcome Leicester City to Turf Moor in midweek action from the Premier League.
Victory would see Burnley move above Southampton into 14th, whilst a win would see Leicester climb to second until late Wednesday evening at earliest.
Team News
Erik Pieters and Robbie Brady could return for Burnley after recovering from respective groin and ankle injuries.
Johann Berg Gudmundsson (hamstring) and Ashley Barnes (thigh) are ruled out.
Leicester will be without Harvey Barnes until mid-April after the England youngster suffered a knee injury in Sunday’s defeat to Arsenal.
Jamie Vardy (groin) and Jonny Evans (calf) are doubts and could join James Justin, Ayoze Perez (both knee), Wes Morgan (back), Wesley Fofana (thigh), James Maddison (hip) and Dennis Praet (hamstring) on sidelines.
Stat Attack
- Burnley have lost three of their last six meetings against Leicester (W2, D1, L3).
- Leicester have won just one of their last four trips to Turf Moor (W1, L3).
- Each of the last three clashes between Burnley and Leicester have ended in 2-1 results, with Sean Dyche’s Clarets winning on two occasions to Leicester’s one victory across those games.
- Harvey Barnes has scored twice in three appearances for Leicester against Burnley.
- Burnley’s Chris Wood has scored in each of his last three appearances against Leicester.
Prediction
Burnley were just defensively shambolic from the get-go at Tottenham on Sunday because they just let Spurs run riot up the pitch literally unchallenged, especially without any real challenge except in the box from which Nick Pope did well to prevent a more embarrassing result.
Leicester made a good start against Arsenal to snatch the opener from a defensive mess but once the Gunners hit their stride, Brendan Rogers’ Foxes just seemed got unlucky with three defensive errors costing them.
Harvey Barnes though will be a huge loss for this game with James Maddison also out but their absences represents a huge chance for fringe players like Hamza Choudhury and Cengiz Under to step up and support Youri Tielemans more if Leicester are to fight for the win at their bogey ground of Turf Moor.
Saying that, there will definitely be work for both teams to do if they’re to get a win here which makes a prediction unpredictable, but I am plumping for an away win because Leicester should have enough in them to get victory even without Barnes and Maddison available.
Prediction: Burnley 1-2 Leicester
Result: Burnley 1-1 Leicester