{"id":650713,"date":"2025-01-18T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=650713"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:05:56","slug":"leicester-city-predicted-lineup-vs-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/18\/leicester-city-predicted-lineup-vs-fulham\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Fulham for January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a midweek loss to Crystal Palace, Leicester City made a quick return to the King Power Stadium. Here is the Leicester City predicted lineup as they play host to Fulham.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Fulham<\/h2>\n<h3>How Leicester City Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crystal Palace were the most recent opposition for the Foxes, where an almost identical side was fielded after their 6-2 F A Cup win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jakub Stolarczyk remains his side\u2019s shot-stopper with Mads Hermansen still out. A centre-back partnership of Wout Faes and Jannik Vestergaard was selected for the first time since Cooper has been manager, as Conor Coady was benched. James Justin and Victor Kristiansen then rounded off the backline as full-backs, on the day that the signing of Woyo Coulibaly was announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/11\/leicester-city-woyo-coulibaly\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Leicester City\u2019s newly announced signing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harry Winks and Boubakary Soumar\u00e9 started in the double pivot, but Winks was replaced after an hour for Oliver Skipp. Facundo Buonanotte started off the right for the second consecutive game, with Stephy Mavididi on the other side. Through the centre, it was Bilal El Khannouss trying to be a creative spark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading the line was Jamie Vardy, with Patson Daka partnering him after the 66th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Leicester City\u2019s Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sixth loss in a row marks a torrid time for Van Nistelrooy\u2019s side, who can\u2019t catch a break. It is a defeat that sees them remain in the relegation zone with just 14 points so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the same side chosen as the 6-2 win against QPR, but they couldn\u2019t replicate any of the glory. A solid first half saw the scoreline level at 0-0, with chances for both sides. With more possession, 11 shots and an XG of 1.05, it would be fair to say that the home side looked much improved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this would all change in the next 45. Jean-Phillipe Mateta scored early on in the second half, to give his side the lead. This would then be doubled by a Marc Guehi volley, with 12 minutes left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/15\/leicester-city-predicted-lineup-vs-crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_self\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Predicted Leicester City Lineup Last Time Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the East-Midlands based side weren\u2019t good enough in both boxes. Defensively, they made it too easy for the visitors and then going forward there was a severe lack of quality as three big chances were missed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changes will need to be made before this Fulham game, if they want any chance of staying up. Tactics could be a way in which this side could be improved. The space provided out wide is regularly exploited by the opposition, and is a major issue. With Justin progressing as a winger, he often struggles on transition to work back and then when in the low block, both fullbacks are often too narrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Leicester City Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no new injuries for the Foxes this week as revealed in the <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/leicester-city-press-conference-live-9868375\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dutchman\u2019s press conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hermansen still remains sidelined, whilst Wilfred Ndidi and Ricardo Pereira are also out.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Leicester City Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GK: Jakub Stolarczyk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RB: James Justin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RCB: Wout Faes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LCB: Jannik Vestergaard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LB: Victor Kristiansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DM: Boubakary Soumar\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DM: Harry Winks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AM: Bilal El Khannouss<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RW: Facundo Buonanotte<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LW: Stephy Mavididi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ST: Jamie Vardy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a midweek loss to Crystal Palace, Leicester City made a quick return to the King Power Stadium. Here is the Leicester City predicted lineup as they play host to Fulham. Leicester City Predicted Lineup Vs Fulham How Leicester City Have Lined-up Recently Crystal Palace were the most recent opposition for the Foxes, where an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5391,"featured_media":631917,"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],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-650713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leicester-city","tag-leicester-city"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650713","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=650713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650727,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650713\/revisions\/650727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}