{"id":650091,"date":"2025-01-04T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=650091"},"modified":"2025-01-03T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:31:37","slug":"leicester-city-predicted-lineup-vs-aston-villa-for-january-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/04\/leicester-city-predicted-lineup-vs-aston-villa-for-january-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Aston Villa for January 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A defeat last time out to Manchester City made it four losses in a row for Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s side, who desperately need an upturn in performances. Here is the Leicester City predicted lineup to take on Aston Villa in an important game for both sides.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Aston Villa<\/span><\/h2>\n

How Leicester City Have Lined-up Recently<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Manchester City defeat saw the Foxes put in one of their best performances of the season. However, the out-of-form visitors managed to take all three points and withstand the home side’s pressure.<\/p>\n

Jakub Stolarczyk has been the preferred option in between the sticks with both Mads Hermansen and Danny Ward being sidelined. The centre-back partnership of Jannik Vestergaard and Conor Coady continued their run of starts last weekend as Caleb Okoli has been reduced to minutes off the bench. Then providing width has been James Justin and Victor Kristiansen as they have also started every game under the <\/span>Dutchman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More: <\/span><\/strong>How Leicester City Can Improve For The New Year<\/a><\/p>\n

The double pivot of Harry Winks and Boubakary Soumar\u00e9 have been front and centre recently as the duo impressed last time out. On the wings, it was <\/span>Stephy Mavididi and the returning Facundo Buonanotte, as Jordan Ayew was suspended.<\/span>\u00a0Bilal El Khannouss\u00a0<\/span>then kept his position<\/span> in the centre and has been in sublime form.<\/p>\n

Despite being ruled out against Liverpool with a knock, it was Jamie Vardy who led the line against Manchester City. Patson Daka then came off the bench late on, whilst Odsonne Edouard wasn’t included.<\/p>\n

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Leicester City\u2019s Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n

Despite the loss, Van Nistelrooy’s side looked much improved last time out. However, they still looked poor defensively and didn’t manage to take advantage of their success in possession. Their loss and Ipswich’s win now see the Foxes fall into 19th and two points off safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Dutchman opted for just two changes from the eleven away at Anfield as Vardy returned from injury and Jordan Ayew returned from suspension to keep his place in the starting eleven. Coming into the game, both sides had been poor as they were 18th and 20th in terms of form for the past nine matches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>The Predicted Leicester City Lineup Last Time Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It would be fair to say that Pep Guardiola’s side edged out the first half as they had nine shots and found the opening goal. Leicester did see some success early on though as they had five shots and missed one big chance; it was clear the visitors weren’t back to their best and were still vulnerable in transition. The second half would then see some of the Foxes’ best football as they won 59% of possession, had six shots and missed two big chances.<\/p>\n

Van Nistelrooy’s side showed clear progression in terms of possession but defensive errors were still present. Erling Haaland was often allowed too much space and ended up cementing his sides’ lead late on. However, the midfield proved their quality on the ball with the likes of Winks, El Khannouss and Soumar\u00e9 being at their best. It was yet another loss but signs of hope were shown in their competitive performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leicester City Injuries to Consider<\/span><\/h3>\n

First-choice goalkeeper Hermansen is still sidelined <\/a>and is said to be struggling to recover from his groin injury. Wout Faes was doubtful in last week’s 2-0 defeat due to a knock but could be back on Saturday. Wilfred Ndidi has been out since the 2-2 draw with Brighton but is said to be returning in early January.\u00a0 The only attacking option set to miss out is Kasey McAteer due to a recent knock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leicester City Predicted Lineup<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

GK: Jakub Stolarczyk<\/span><\/p>\n

RB: James Justin<\/span><\/p>\n

RCB: Conor Coady<\/span><\/p>\n

LCB: Jannik Vestergaard<\/p>\n

LB: Victor Kristiansen<\/span><\/p>\n

DM: Boubakary Soumar\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n

DM: Harry Winks<\/span><\/p>\n

AM: Bilal El Khannouss<\/span><\/p>\n

RW: Facundo Buonanotte<\/span><\/p>\n

LW: Stephy Mavididi<\/span><\/p>\n

ST: Jamie Vardy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A defeat last time out to Manchester City made it four losses in a row for Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s side, who desperately need an upturn in performances. Here is the Leicester City predicted lineup to take on Aston Villa in an important game for both sides. Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Aston Villa How Leicester […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5391,"featured_media":649544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-650091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","tag-leicester-city"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650172,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650091\/revisions\/650172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}