Hull City - Leicester
Hull City - Leicester
Probable teams:
Hull: Yakoupovich, Davis, Livermore, Robertson Elmohamedi, Mailer, Huddlestone, Snodgrass, Clucas, Diomande, Hernandez
Leicester City: Schmeichel, Morgan, Hernandez, Simpson, Fuchs, King, Drinkwater, Olbraytan, Okazaki, Mareza, Vardi
Hull have serious personal problems at the start of the season has just 13 healthy players from the first team. Allan McGregor (back), Alex Bruce (Achilles), Moses Odubadzho (knee) and Michael Dawson (knee) are in the infirmary for a long time, and in two weeks there should come Harry Maguire.
Champions Leicester began the campaign without a ladder in his defense Robert Huth, who is suspended. On line Matty James, who missed historic 2015/16 campaign because of a knee injury. Manager Claudio Ranieri will be able to use the new Ahmes Musa (the most expensive purchase of the club, shining with two goals against Barcelona), Luis Hernandez, Bartosz Kapustka, world champion Germany Ron-Robert Zieler and Papi Mendy.
"Tigers" have not won in their last five meetings against today's opponent, recording three defeats. Moreover, Hull did not score even once in the last three league games against the "foxes".
Statistics show that the current champion in the Premier League over the years has never lost at the start of the new season, achieving 19 wins and four draws, but the "culprit" for this is mostly Manchester United. At the same time last novice to elite won the start in 2012, when West Ham hit Aston Villa 1: 0.
Goal machine Jamie Lester Vardi has not scored only three of the 22 opponents who met in the Premier League Hull City is one of them. The other two are Manchester City and Swansea. Last season, however Vardi was №1 in Europe (along with Gonzalo Higuaín) in number of goals scored (12), which opened the outcome.
Claudio Ranieri is looking for his victory №100 in the Premier League as a manager and if achieved it will become only the fifth foreign specialist in the UK with this glamorous indicator.
Hull is the only team in the English elite this season, which has not yet made a summer purchase, and to cover not permanently assigned to a manager. "Foxes' unbeaten as a guest in 20 of their last 22 matches in the Premier League and almost certainly the trend will continue.