- 1 Leicester City vs Wigan Athletic: Lundstram banned, and the bottom side at the King Power
- 2 Leicester City: five straight games with a goal, but three home defeats from five
- 3 Wigan Athletic: no more than one goal in any of their last six league games
- 4 Free Football Prediction: Leicester City vs Wigan Athletic
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Leicester City vs Wigan Athletic: Lundstram banned, and the bottom side at the King Power
John Lundstram won’t play on Tuesday. Leicester’s player with three league goals this season picked up a second yellow card in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Luton and serves a one-match ban, so Russell Martin has to rebuild the middle of his side for the visit of Wigan Athletic.
Kick-off at the King Power Stadium is 19:45 UK time on Tuesday 27 October. The League One fixture was moved from an international-break date, and it pairs two clubs in very different positions: Leicester 13th on 15 points from 11 games, Wigan bottom with seven.
Leicester’s position needs some context: this is their first third-tier season since 2008-09, after back-to-back relegations, and they sit ten points behind Huddersfield Town. A 4-0 home defeat to Oxford United on 5 September brought chants against the manager, and they’ve lost three of their five league games at the King Power.
Wigan’s season has gone worse still, because Gary Caldwell’s side have won twice, drawn once and lost eight times, scoring only eight goals, and Caldwell is serving a touchline ban, with David Perkins taking his place in the technical area.
The clubs haven’t met in the league since a 2-2 draw at Wigan on 1 April 2014. The most recent meeting was an FA Cup third-round tie at the King Power on 4 January 2020, which Leicester won 2-0 through a Tom Pearce own goal and Harvey Barnes. Bookmakers price Leicester at 1.40, too short to take on its own, so this preview looks at the goals markets instead.
Leicester City: five straight games with a goal, but three home defeats from five 
Leicester have scored in five consecutive League One matches. The run covers a 1-1 at Barnsley, a 3-1 home defeat to Peterborough, a 2-1 home win over Doncaster on 17 October, a 4-0 at Bromley three days later and Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Luton, and before it came a 4-3 win at Stockport.
Leicester also been easy to score against. Martin’s side have 17 goals for and 17 against after 11 games, and over their last 20 league matches they’ve conceded in 18. At home over that span they’ve averaged 1.3 goals scored and 1.4 conceded, and there have been goals in each of their last 25 home league games.
Riis leads the scoring with four, and Cullen, with three, could come back into the starting attack. Lundstram’s absence means Smallbone is expected to start in midfield alongside Page, with Alves and Thomas providing width.
Martin has other gaps to fill, with Jayden Joseph, Jakub Stolarczyk and Ben Nelson unavailable, though Wes Burns is back after illness and Conor Chaplin is building up minutes from the bench. Bobby De Cordova-Reid is also among the options to come on.
The probable side has McCarthy in goal behind a back three of O’Hora, Souttar and Okoli, with Braybrooke and Cullen behind Riis. It’s a team that creates enough to win this game, and one that has kept only five clean sheets in its last 20 home league games.
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Wigan Athletic: no more than one goal in any of their last six league games 
Wigan haven’t scored more than once in any of their last six League One games. They lost 1-0 at home to Wycombe and 1-0 at Stevenage, beat Reading 1-0 on 17 October, and then lost 2-1 at Oxford on 20 October and 2-1 at Huddersfield on Saturday.
Christian Saydee has been their most reliable source of goals in that spell. He equalised at Oxford, scored the consolation at Huddersfield and set up Scott Hogan’s winner against Reading, and he and Weir share the club lead with two league goals each.
Their defensive record is the larger worry: Wigan have conceded 17 goals in 11 games for a goal difference of minus nine. Away from home over their last 20 league games, they’ve also failed to score in 11.
Discipline has cost them as well, with Fraser Murray serving the second match of a three-game ban and Gray missing out after a fifth booking. James Carragher returns, but Luke Harris and Ryan Trevitt are long-term absentees and Max Power is a doubt.
Wigan’s probable side is a 3-5-2: Whitworth in goal, Fox, Carragher and Burns at the back, Barrett, Weir, Walsh, Burrowes and A. Harris across midfield, and Saydee and Hogan up front. Both forwards have scored in October, which gives them a route to goal even against a stronger side.
Probable lineup Leicester City: McCarthy; O’Hora, Souttar, Okoli; Alves, Page, Smallbone, Thomas; Braybrooke, Cullen; Riis
Probable lineup Wigan Athletic: Whitworth; Fox, Carragher, Burns; Barrett, Weir, Walsh, Burrowes, A. Harris; Saydee, Hogan
Free Football Prediction: Leicester City vs Wigan Athletic
Our prediction: Over 2.5 goals @ 1.50
Leicester’s 11 league games have produced 34 goals, an average of more than three a match. They’ve scored in five straight games, conceded in 18 of their last 20, and they’re without Lundstram, one of their three leading scorers.
Wigan’s own scoring is the argument against, since they’ve managed eight goals all season and failed to score in 11 of their last 20 away games. I’d still expect Leicester to provide most of the goals, because Wigan’s defence has let in two in each of their last two games and is without Murray and Gray.
The win at 1.40 is too short, and both teams to score at 1.70 depends on Wigan more than this pick does. Over 2.5 goals at 1.50 is the pick.
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