{"id":653445,"date":"2025-04-07T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=653445"},"modified":"2025-04-07T06:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:08:19","slug":"leicester-predicted-lineup-newcastle-united-apl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/07\/leicester-predicted-lineup-newcastle-united-apl\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester Predicted Lineup vs Newcastle United for April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the lengthy international break, Leicester City returned to action with yet another defeat. The Foxes have <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">now<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> lost seven consecutive games after Pep Guardiola&#8217;s Manchester City dominated from the off last time out. This Monday, April 7, Ruud van Nistelrooy&#8217;s side will take on Newcastle United. Here is the Leicester Predicted Lineup to take on Eddie Howe&#8217;s top-four chasing<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> squad at the King Power Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leicester Predicted Lineup vs Newcastle United for Premier League Clash<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How Leicester Have Lined Up Recently<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last time out, the Foxes utilised their five-at-the-back system once again, but it came with little success.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0In between the sticks, Mads Hermansen reprised his role as the\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Foxes\u2019<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> shot-stopper as his error led to the home side&#8217;s second goal of the night. Wout Faes, Conor Coady, and Luke Thomas all starred in the centre-back roles, whilst Victor Kristiansen and James Justin started as wing-backs on their respective sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/02\/05\/leicester-city-loan-roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Leicester City Loan Roundup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Meanwhile, a midfield duo of Wilfred Ndidi and Boubakary Soumar\u00e9 also started, but <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">this may have been due to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/harry-winks-axed-leicester-furious-confrontation-ruud-van-nistelrooy-100-mile-commute-amid-birth-newborn-daughter\/blt282e5f8273f3d4fd\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">off-pitch issue<\/a> between Harry Winks and his manager<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Bilal El Khannouss and Patson Daka then played further forward, with 38-year-old Jamie Vardy leading the line on the 27th occasion this campaign. The system and profiles were severely flawed in the Wednesday night fixture as Oliver Skipp and many others came off the bench, but also struggled.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leicester<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Recent Form and Tactics<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Manchester City game was more of the same for a Leicester side that looks incredibly out of their depth in the top division. The home side made it look easy throughout as they opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Jack Grealish&#8217;s goal was then added to just before the 30th minute by Omar Marmoush.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, the Foxes couldn&#8217;t handle City&#8217;s attacks as they conceded 18 shots and an expected goal tally of 2.24. Meanwhile, going forward, they also weren&#8217;t good enough, as just two shots were managed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/02\/leicester-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leicester City Predicted Lineup Previously<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has now become evident that Van Nistelrooy is also out of his depth, especially with his refusal to be adaptive and make changes. The same lineup that was dominated by Manchester United two weeks ago started once again and showed little change in terms of performance.<\/p>\n<p>Relegation is now inevitable for the record-breaking Foxes, who have failed to score in their last seven games. The Dutchman&#8217;s side still sits 19th in the league, and 15 points adrift from survival with eight games to go.<\/p>\n<div id=\"FreeStarVideoAdContainer\">\n<div id=\"freestar-video-parent\">\n<div><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leicester City Injuries to Consider<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As\u00a0revealed by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8jeynww3dwo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Dutchman<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, there are no new injuries to his squad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leicester Predicted Lineup vs Newcastle United<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">GK: Mads Hermansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">RWB: James Justin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>RCB: Wout Faes<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CCB: Conor Coady<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LCB: Luke Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LWB: Victor Kristiansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CM: Wilfred Ndidi<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CM: Boubakary Soumar\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AM: Bilal El Khannouss<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AM: Patson Daka<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ST: Jamie Vardy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the lengthy international break, Leicester City returned to action with yet another defeat. The Foxes have now lost seven consecutive games after Pep Guardiola&#8217;s Manchester City dominated from the off last time out. This Monday, April 7, Ruud van Nistelrooy&#8217;s side will take on Newcastle United. Here is the Leicester Predicted Lineup to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5391,"featured_media":653456,"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":[9936],"class_list":["post-653445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","tag-leicester-city-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653445","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=653445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653457,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653445\/revisions\/653457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}