Chelsea vs Leicester City

Stamford Bridge is the venue as the two struggling Premier League sides, Chelsea and Leicester City, go head-to-head in a high-stakes fixture.

Amid Chelsea’s ongoing pursuit of Leicester’s defender Wesley Fofana, the ‘Pensioners’ are looking to upset their visitors on the pitch and potentially extend their three-match unbeaten H2H streak in the Premier League (W2, D1). However, these are tumultuous times at the Bridge. After a hard-fought 1-0 win at Everton on the opening weekend, Thomas Tuchel’s men have gone winless in back-to-back league outings (D1, L1), including a disheartening 3-0 defeat at Leeds United last time out. Coming into this encounter in the bottom half of the table for the first time since September 2020, the ‘Blues’ will rely on history to drag them out of trouble. Indeed, Chelsea haven’t lost any of their last 20 Premier League fixtures that they started in the bottom half of the standings (W11, D9).

In the meantime, Leicester City head into proceedings on the back of a penalty shoot-out win over fourth-tier Stockport County in the EFL Cup second round. That’s probably the only positive in an otherwise abysmal start to the season for the ‘Foxes’ as they’ll take the field as one of just five sides yet to pick up a win after the opening three Premier League rounds (D1, L2). Deemed one of the likeliest managers to face the sack, Brendan Rodgers has seen his men open the scoring in two of their three top-flight outings this term, only to return a single point. Leicester’s defensive woes spell even more trouble, with the visitors conceding 2+ goals in all three Premier League games thus far. If that’s not concerning enough, they’ve only won one of their last ten league visits to Stamford Bridge (D4, L5).