Manchester United welcome Leicester to Old Trafford tomorrow in hopes of keeping up their stellar home form this season.
Erik ten Hag’s side sit third in the Premier League table and are in hot pursuit of Manchester City and Arsenal in the title race.
The Red Devils are 16 games unbeaten at home in all competitions and they will be keen to keep that streak going on Sunday.
Top scorer Marcus Rashford is also loving life at Old Trafford, scoring in each of his last six home Premier League games with his most recent coming against Leeds.
Only legends Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo have scored more consecutively for the club.
However, the Foxes will be out to put an end to this run and continue their rise up the table after finding some form in recent weeks.
Brendan Rodgers’ side have scored eight goals in their last two games, beating Aston Villa 4-2 and Tottenham 4-1 to see them move up to 13th.
Manchester United vs Leicester: How to watch
This Premier League clash will take place on Sunday, February 19.
Kick-off at Old Trafford is scheduled for 2pm.
The game will be available to watch on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League.
talkSPORT will have live updates of all the action throughout the afternoon while talkSPORT.com will also be running a live blog.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
Manchester United vs Leicester: Team news
United will remain without Casemiro who serves the final game of his suspension this weekend following his red card against Crystal Palace.
Therefore new signing Marcel Sabitzer is likely to partner Fred once again in midfield with Christian Eriksen and Scott McTominay both out injured.
Diogo Dalot will be competing with Aaron Wan-Bissaka for the right-back spot while Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane are likely to return to the line-up.
As for Leicester, Youri Tielemans was absent from the squad against Tottenham with James Maddison captaining the Foxes.
If he is absent again at the weekend, Nampalys Mendy and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall will play in midfield once again.
New signings Harry Souttar, Victor Kristiansen and Tete will all play a part after making a good start to life in the East Midlands.
Manchester United vs Leicester: What has been said?
Leicester boss Rodgers revealed his team are confident heading to Old Trafford but he has praised the quality of Man United’s squad.
“I look at Man United and see the introduction of new players, Eriksen, Martinez and Casemiro,” Rodgers said.
“He is a world-class player. He’s calm, he has quality. Thankfully for us, he’s suspended. He’s given them a stabilising effect.
“Erik and his team, they’ve given them good organisation. Then they have a collective group.”
He continued: “We’re only looking at the next game. We’ve had fantastic results and performance wise it’s been good. It’s another challenge.
“We know we can play without fear. The confidence is in the team. We’re the second-highest scorers away from home, so we know we can score goals.”
Manchester United vs Leicester: Match facts
- Kelechi Iheanacho has been involved in five goals in his last two Premier League games for Leicester (2 goals, 3 assists) as many as he had in his previous 27 appearances (3 goals, 2 assists).
- Leicester’s James Maddison has been involved in 21 goals in his last 19 Premier League starts, scoring 13 and assisting eight. However, he’s faced Manchester United without ever scoring more often than any other opponent in the competition (8 games).
- Marcus Rashford has scored in each of his last six Premier League home games; only two Manchester United players have scored in more consecutive appearances at Old Trafford in the competition – Wayne Rooney (8 between December 2009-March 2010) and Cristiano Ronaldo (10 between March-November 2008).
- Manchester United have scored a league-high eight Premier League goals via substitutes this season, while no side has conceded more goals to subs than Leicester City (7).
- Leicester are looking to win three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since January 2021, while they’ve scored more goals in these last two victories (8) than they had in their previous eight league games combined (7).
- Leicester have won their last two Premier League games despite conceding first both times, beating Aston Villa 4-2 and Tottenham 4-1. There have been four previous occasions of a side winning three Premier League games in a row despite conceding first each time – Leeds in November 1997, Manchester United in January 2003, Arsenal in March 2012 (4) and Liverpool in May 2022.
- After losing their final two games of 2021-22 and the first two games of this campaign, Manchester United have now lost just three of their last 21 Premier League matches (W14 D4). Indeed, since (and including) their first win of the season against Liverpool on August 22nd, Manchester United have earned more Premier League points than any other side (46).
- Manchester United have scored at least once in each of their last 27 Premier League games against Leicester – only Manchester City (28 against Newcastle) have had a longer scoring run against an opponent in the competition.
- Leicester have avoided defeat in their last two Premier League away games against Man Utd (W1 D1) – they last had a longer league run without defeat at Old Trafford between August 1972 and April 1977 (W1 D3).
- Manchester United won the reverse fixture 1-0 against Leicester, ending a run of four Premier League games without a win against the Foxes (D2 L2).
