Leicester vs Newcastle LIVE! Premier League match updates, news, score, stream and highlights
A Leicester City team seeking to avoid an eighth straight Premier League home loss host a Newcastle United side aiming for their eighth Premier League away win of the season on Monday evening.
The Foxes return to the King Power after a dampening 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in midweek, while the Magpies eked out a 2-1 victory over Brentford, and here Sports Mole rounds up the team news for both clubs.
Leicester’s seemingly inevitable relegation to the Championship cannot be confirmed this weekend – unlike basement side Southampton – but it appears to be just a matter of time before they are condemned to a swift second-tier return, especially if the form book is anything to go by.
Indeed, Leicester are at risk of becoming the first side in English Football League history to lost eight consecutive league games at home without scoring; if that was not enough, the Foxes could also lose 11 home games in a single season for the first time in their history.
As Leicester seek to avoid an eighth straight home defeat, Newcastle coincidentally have their sights set on an eighth Premier League away win of the season; the Magpies have only ever managed that particular achievement in four previous top-flight campaigns since 1992.
Having played fewer games than all of the clubs around them, the Magpies’ top-four fate remains in their own hands heading into the final straight, and Eddie Howe’s men have run into few difficulties against newly-promoted teams of late.
