In a weekend match in week 7, on Sun Oct 3rd, Leicester City and Crystal Palace will play a match in London in a meeting of these two evenly matched Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, a perfect day for football. Crystal Palace is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion. Wilfried Zaha struck first for Crystal Palace in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time on a penalty, then in the 5th minute of the second half’s stoppage time, Joël Veltman sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Neal Maupay earning them at least the one point. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 2 of their last 10, while leicester City is fresh off their 2-2 draw against Burnley. Jamie Vardy scored the first goal for Burnley on an own goal in the 12th minute, then Jamie Vardy got the equalizer for Leicester City in the 37th minute on a feed from Youri Tielemans . Leicester City is looking for direction having 2 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Leicester City won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Jamie Vardy has been on a hot streak lately. In the last five games, the attacker has scored four goals for Leicester City. Both Conor Gallagher and Odsonne Édouard have been the hottest scorers for Crystal Palace in the last five each having scored 2 goals
Patrick Vieira’s squad will be without Jeffrey Schlupp, Eberechi Eze and Nathan Ferguson, while Brendan Rodgers’s Leicester City squad will be without Jonny Evans, Nampalys Mendy, Wesley Fofana and James Justin.