Leicester City v Fulham | King Power Stadium | Monday 30th November 2020 | 5.30pm | #LEIFUL
The opposition
- This season has seen Leicester continue their good progress under Brendan Rodgers’ stewardship, and they go into match week 10 in fourth spot, just two points behind league leaders Tottenham Hotspur.
- The Foxes were in European action on Thursday, securing the point they needed away to Braga to secure their spot in the next round of the Europa League. They did it the hard way, though, coming from behind three times, with Jamie Vardy making it 3-3 in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
- Monday will be just our seventh Premier League meeting with Leicester. The first two ended in goalless draws, while Fulham won both 2003/04 fixtures by a 2-0 scoreline. Two seasons ago, Aboubakar Kamara earned us a point at the Cottage, but we were defeated 3-1 at the King Power.
Leicester team news
Influential right-back Ricardo has been out since March, and recently made his comeback from an ACL injury in a development squad game, although Monday will probably come too soon for the Portuguese. Timothy Castagne has missed the last month but could return against the Whites, although fellow defender Caglar Soyuncu misses out. Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is also unlikely to be risked.
Fulham team news
Kamara is back having served a three-game ban. Kenny Tete is back in training but Scott Parker will approach his return to action with caution.
Coverage
The match will be televised live on Sky Sports. Club commentary from Gentleman Jim & Jamie Reid will be available to FFCtv subscribers.
Player insight
Ruben Loftus-Cheek thinks Fulham are pretty close to getting the results that their performances deserve.
“We’ve got an underlying confidence that we will soon start to get wins,” he told FFCtv. “Now it’s just a process of tweaking things, because the foundation is there.
“We play some really good football, and I think we just need to kind of piece everything together to get the results.”
Form
Leicester: WWWLD
Fulham: DLWLL
Pre-match quotes
“We know it’s going to be a tough game. You’ve seen they’ve had a tough start to the season, so they’re going to be desperate to get a result against us.”
Harvey Barnes
Leicester winger
“Leicester are a good team, a very positional team. They’ve shown a different way to them a bit this year.”
Scott Parker
Fulham Head Coach
