Relegation-battling Leicester City host title-chasing Arsenal in a blockbuster Premier League contest.
Victory will lift Leicester out of the relegation zone, whilst Arsenal can move to within four points of league leaders, Liverpool, with a win.
Team News
Victor Kristiansen, Jamie Vardy and Jannik Vestergaard are doubts for Leicester after the trio missed their controversial FA Cup exit at Manchester United last weekend.
Abdul Fatawu (ACL) and Ricardo Pereira (muscle) remain absent.
Arsenal will be without Kai Havertz for rest of season after he suffered a hamstring injury in their mid-season training camp in Dubai.
Ben White (knee) is available for selection but Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka (both hamstring), Gabriel Jesus and Takehiro Tomiyasu (both knee) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
Leicester host Arsenal at King Power Stadium on Saturday 15 February at 12:30pm GMT, live on TNT Sport 1 in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Leicester have lost each of their last six meetings against Arsenal (L6).
- Arsenal are unbeaten in four of their last seven trips to Leicester (W3, D1, L3).
- Mikel Arteta’s Gunners have kept clean sheets in three of their last four visits to Leicester in all competitions.
- Leicester have won one of their five home games against London-based league opposition this season (W1, D1, L3).
- Arsenal have kept just one clean sheet in the league in 2025 (W4, D2)
Prediction
After a gutsy display in their controversial FA Cup exit at Man Utd, Leicester need to show similar effort and channel the anger from Utd’s unfair winner into clinical motivation for this game where they will probably be defending a lot.
Arsenal absolutely thrashed Manchester City in their last league outing but Havertz is a huge loss up front given his form this season, but it does offer Leandro Trossard and Raheem Sterling a chance to step up in the central forward role and it is crucial that they hit the ground running if want to put pressure on Liverpool.
Arteta’s Gunners though do have enough midfield and defensive quality to find goals still but if Leicester can turn up and play as dangerously as they did at Utd on the counter, the Foxes could well nick a point here if use that game as a launchpad for a survival push.
Prediction: Leicester 1-1 Arsenal
Result: Leicester 0-2 Arsenal
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