Week 25 brings us a match on Feb 21st, where Aston Villa and Leicester City will play a match in Birmingham in a meeting of these two closely matched Premier League teams. Aston Villa sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Brighton & Hove Albion. Neither Brighton & Hove Albion nor Aston Villa could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 27 and 4 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Aston Villa is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches, while leicester City is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Slavia Praha. Neither Slavia Praha nor Leicester City could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 15 and 9 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Leicester City should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches.
Aston Villa and Leicester City last played eachother at the King Power Stadium on Sunday Oct 18th. Aston Villa was victorious by a score of 1 to 0 in front of an empty stadium. Ross Barkley scored the first goal for Aston Villa in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Leicester City couldn’t manage to score, and Aston Villa took the shutout win.
Kelechi Iheanacho has been the most prolific scorer on Leicester City in his last 5 matches with two goals. Aston Villa’s most prolific scorer has been Ollie Watkins. He has netted 3 goals over the last 5 matches
Wesley and Kortney Hause are unavailable to play for Aston Villa, while Brendan Rodgers’s Leicester City squad will be without Wilfred Ndidi, Dennis Praet, Ayoze Pérez, Timothy Castagne, Jamie Vardy, Wes Morgan, Wesley Fofana and James Justin.