Leicester vs Man City LIVE: Stream, TV channel, kick-off time and team news as Sergio Aguero STARTS Premier League clash

VARDY PARTY

Leicester star Jamie Vardy poses as the hosts’ biggest threat as he is their top goalscorer – joint-seventh highest overall – in the Premier League this season with 12 goals in 25 matches.

Vardy has racked eight goals in nine league games against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, which is twice as many top-flight crackers as any other player has netted against sides managed by the Catalan.

Two of the star striker’s three Premier League hat-tricks have come against Guardiola’s City in December 2016 and in the reverse fixture at the Etihad earlier this term.

Ever since joining Leicester from Fleetwood in 2012, the 34-year-old has amassed a total of 144 goals in 341 appearances

KUN-BYE

Manchester City legend Sergio Aguero starts today shortly after announcing that he will be leaving the club at the end of the season when his contract expires.

Aguero has been phenomenal for City ever since his arrival from Atletico Madrid in 2011 as he has scored a staggering 257 goals in 384 matches across all competitions and became the club’s all-time record goalscorer in the process.

The star striker has also won four Premier League titles, the first of which saw him scoring the critical goal against Queens Park Rangers at the Etihad on his debut season in 2012.

City manager Pep Guardiola has suggested that the Citizens may not be able to sign a replacement for the Argentina international due to the coronavirus’ financial impact on the market.

This casts major doubt over a potential deal with Borussia Dortmund superstar Erling Haaland, who appears more keen on joining Real Madrid or Barcelona

MAN CITY FORMATION

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola appears to have opted for a 4-2-3-1 formation with six changes to the team that beat Everton away last month in the FA Cup.

Ederson returns between the sticks in the place of Zack Steffen, while Kyle Walker starts at right-back and Benjamin Mendy, who replaces Oleksandr Zinchenko, features on the other side with Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte teaming up at centre-back.

Captain Fernandinho links up with Rodri, who comes on for Bernardo Silva, while Kevin de Bruyne, who takes Ilkay Gundogan’s place, plays at No10.

Riyad Mahrez takes Phil Foden’s place and starts on the right wing with Gabriel Jesus on the other side while club legend Sergio Aguero, who replaces Raheem Sterling, leads the attack

LEICESTER FORMATION

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has opted for what looks like a 3-4-3 formation with only one change to the team that beat Manchester United at home in the FA Cup last month.

Captain Kasper Schmeichel starts in goal with Wesley Fofana, Jonny Evans and Timothy Castagne in defence.

Daniel Amartey, who replaces Caglar Soyuncu, will play at right wing-back with Marc Albrighton on the other side while Youri Tielemans and Wilfred Ndidi team up in midfield.

Ayoze Perez, Kelechi Iheanacho and Jamie Vardy lead the attack.

LEICESTER SUBS

10 Maddison, 12 Ward, 20 Choudhury, 21 Pereira, 24 Mendy, 26 Praet, 33 Thomas, 46 Daley-Campbell, 64 Suengchitthawon

MAN CITY SUBS

5 Stones, 6 Ake, 7 Sterling, 8 Gundogan, 20 Silva, 21 Torres, 27 Cancelo, 33 Carson, 47 Foden

LEICESTER XI

1 Schmeichel; 3 Fofana, 6 Evans, 18 Amartey; 11 Albrighton, 25 Ndidi, 8 Tielemans, 27 Castagne; 17 Perez, 14 Iheanacho, 9 Vardy

MANCHESTER CITY XI

31 Ederson; 2 Walker, 3 Dias, 14 Laporte, 22 Mendy; 25 Fernandinho, 16 Rodri, 17 De Bruyne; 26 Mahrez, 9 Jesus, 10 Aguero

THE TEAM SHEETS ARE IN!!!

CITY STATS

Manchester City look to be on their way to a seventh league title in dominating fashion as they are top of the Premier League table with a whopping 14 points separating them from rivals Manchester United in second place.

City have won 22 and lost a mere three out of a total of 30 league matches this season, which means they have the most victories and least amount of defeats than any other team in the top tier.

The Citizens have also scored 64 and yielded a mere 21 goals, thus racking the highest and conceding the lowest amount in the Premier League.

Pep Guardiola’s men have won their last 14 away games in all competitions, they have also kept more clean sheets (27) and conceded fewer goals (26) in all competitions among all teams in Europe’s top five leagues

LEICESTER STATS

Leicester have been enjoying yet another successful season under Brendan Rodgers as they are third in the Premier League table with seven points separating them from fifth place and are making a strong case for Champions League qualification.

The Foxes have won 17 and only lost seven out of a total of 29 league matches this season and have scored 53 goals, which is the third highest tally in the top tier behind Manchester City and Manchester United.

The hosts are looking to complete their first league double over City since the 1986-1987 season following September’s triumph at the Etihad.

If Rodgers’ men pick up the victory then they will become only the fourth team to complete a league double over a side managed by Pep Guardiola, after Chelsea in the 2016-2017 campaign as well as Manchester United and Wolves last term.

However, Leicester have lost 13 of their last 15 Premier League meetings against the league leaders, drawing twice along the way

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Leicester and Manchester City’s first ever encounter took place way back in 1895 in a Second Division match in the East Midlands where the hosts won 3-1.

Since then, the two sides have faced off a total of 121 times with City picking up a majority of 59 wins, compared to the Foxes’ 31, in the process.

Leicester won the reverse fixture in September at the Etihad with a score of 5-2, thanks to a hat-trick by Jamie Vardy and goals from James Maddison and Youri Tielemans.

But the Citizens emerged victorious from their most recent visit at King Power Stadium last year with a 1-0 victory thanks to a late winner by Gabriel Jesus

GOOD AFTERNOON FROM LEICESTER

Welcome to our live coverage of the Premier League clash between Leicester and Manchester City at the King Power Stadium.

City and the Foxes return to action following the recent international break and are looking to seal their place at the top and top four of the table respectively.

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is set to welcome James Maddison back to the fold following the midfielder’s recent bout with a hip injury he suffered in late February.

Ricardo Pereira is also in contention after healing from a hamstring problem but Harvey Barnes and James Justin are still out with a knee and cruciate ligament injury respectively.

City manager Pep Guardiola, on the other hand, is expected to have a full-strength squad available for this tricky trip to Leicester.

Guardiola hasn’t reported any fitness concerns following the international break but did admit the club is still waiting on some returning players’ coronavirus test results.

The City boss said on Friday: “There are six, seven players we haven’t seen because yesterday they weren’t able to come in for the bubble, for the test.

“So today we will have a training session and decide the team, how the players have come back from the international break”