Leicester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live!

09 November 2019 04:49
Minute-by-minute updates from the Kingpower StadiumMatch preview: Leicester v ArsenalEmail Scott here with your thoughts 4.49pm GMT It’s Remembrance Sunday tomorrow. The poppy will grace Leicester’s famous blue shirt . 4.39pm GMT If It Ain’t Broke dept. Upwardly mobile Leicester, who have won four on the bounce, are unchanged. They name the same XI that won 2-0 at Crystal Palace last Sunday.By comparison, unsettled Arsenal, without a win in four, make three changes to the team held at home by Wolves last Saturday. Hector Bellerin, Sead Kolasinac and Rob Holding replace Kieran Tierney, Sokratis Papastathopolous and Dani Ceballos. 4.32pm GMT Leicester City: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell, Ndidi, Perez, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.Subs: Justin, Morgan, Gray, Albrighton, Ward, Choudhury, Praet.Arsenal: Leno, Bellerin, Holding, Luiz, Kolasinac, Torreira, Chambers, Guendouzi, Ozil, Lacazette, Aubameyang.Subs: Tierney, Papastathopoulos, Pepe, Martinez, Willock, Martinelli, Saka. 11.29am GMT Leicester City are in a good place right now. To be exact, third in the Premier League table and in the quarter-finals of the League Cup. They’ve won eight of their last ten matches in all competitions, the only bumps in the road having been narrow defeats at Old Trafford and Anfield. They’ve spanked Newcastle by five and Southampton by nine - nine! - all the while playing some glorious football. Oh Brendan, we never doubted you!Arsenal aren’t in such a chipper mood. Their form has been hideous. They’ve won just twice in the league since September, against Aston Villa and Bournemouth, and they’ve failed to hang onto leads in each of their last four games, against Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Vitoria Guimaraes. There’s open revolt within the fanbase, folk not best pleased with Granit Xhaka or Unai Emery. Things are coming to a head. These could be end times. Put it this way: if they lose tonight, you’ll be rubbernecking Arsenal Fan TV, won’t you. Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian