It’s party time for Leicester City, who were promoted back to the Premier League without even playing, but will still want to go up as champions.
Preston North End vs Leicester City match preview
It will be Monday night delight for Leicester City, who were promoted back to the Premier League at the first time of asking on Friday, following QPR’s 4-0 demolition of Leeds.
Last time they took the field on Tuesday, the Foxes smashed promotion rivals Southampton 5-0 at the King Power in a statement victory, akin to how well this team had been playing earlier this season.
Abdul Fatawu scored a hat-trick, while Wilfred Ndidi and then Jamie Vardy were also on target.
So, having also beat West Brom 2-1 three days earlier, Enzo Maresca’s team are back at the top of the table, and have secured promotion, even if most expected them to have done so weeks ago.
Now, all that is left for Leicester to play for is their desire to be crowned second-tier champions for the eighth time.
Hosts Preston North End meantime ostensibly have nothing to play for but, considering this is their final home game of the season, will be determined to spring a surprise.
Ryan Lowe’s team are enduring a rather miserable conclusion to this campaign, suffering a third successive defeat last weekend, beaten 1-0 by QPR at Loftus Road.
This is the Lilywhites’ ninth successive season in the Championship, finishing between 7th and 14th each time, a trend that’s set to continue, given that they are tenth.
Preston’s ultimate dream is to get back into the top-flight for the first time since 1960/61, but once again promotion remains illusive.
Thus, everything appears to be set up perfectly for the party in the Deepdale away end to last all night long.
Preston North End vs Leicester City Tips
Leicester have won three of their last four meetings with Preston, including a 3-0 thumping in the reverse fixture in October, and we are backing the Foxes for the win at Deepdale.
Concerningly for the traveling supporters, Leicester have only won two of 16 visits to Preston in the last 69 years, albeit they haven’t visited for 13 years, drawing 1-1 back then, with Yakubu the scorer.
More relevant would be the fact that Enzo Maresca’s side are winless in five away matches, losing each of the last three, beaten 1-0 by Bristol City, Millwall and Plymouth in succession.
However, Preston’s form isn’t much better, winning only one of their last six, losing three on the spin, so we’re forecasting that the Foxes will simply have too much quality.
In terms of both teams to score, should Preston fail to net here, it would be the first time since December 2019 that they’ve failed to score in four successive EFL Championship fixtures.
Meantime, both teams have scored in 19 of Leicester’s last 31 matches.
Stephy Mavididi has been one of the star of this Leicester team, scoring 13 times in all competitions.
The winger was on target during recent home wins over both Birmingham and Norwich and we are backing him to add to his tally on, what’s shaping up to be, an historic night for the club.
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