Claude Puel and the Foxes receive Pep Guardiola’s intractable Manchester City in the EFL Cup quarter-final match. The Leicester occupies the 8th position in the Premier League, adding 26 points in 18 days, 12 of them after a streak of 4 wins that was broken this weekend by the Crystal Palace. The Foxes have been put in the hands of coach Claude Puel, former Southampton, after dismissing Craig Shakespeare 12 days ago. Interestingly, as happened with him when he replaced Ranieri, the interim coach Michael Appleton has achieved two victories in the two games he has led the team but this time, the leaders of the Premier League 15-16 have preferred to sign a technical contrasted, who knows the English league and whose style of play is diametrically opposed to that of his predecessors. Puel debuted with the Foxes with a victory against Everton 2-0.

Since they lost with Liverpool in the league (2-3), the Foxes had six undefeated games, draw in Bournemouth (0-0) and at home, against WBA (1-1), and win with Appleton on the bench, to Swansea in Wales (1-2) and to Leeds (3-1), in the eighth finals of the EFL Cup. Puel debuted with a victory against Everton (2-0), before tying in his visit to Stoke (2-2) and falling at home to the leader, Manchester City (0-2). The team then drew 1-1 at West Ham and won consecutively at Tottenham (2-1), Burnley (1-0), Newcastle (2-3) and Southampton (1-4). ), before being beaten by the Eagles last Saturday.

Eleven Probable: Schmeichel – Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs, Chilwell – Ndidi, Iborra, Mahrez – Gray, Vardy.

Manchester City leads the Premier League after adding 52 of the first 54 points in contention, adding 17 wins (15 consecutively, record in England) and a draw against Everton on the second day.

The citizen team has invested 240 million in signings, being today the great entertainer of the market in England. Pep Guardiola has continued to incorporate players of his liking to a team that was champion of the Premier League four seasons ago. The Citizens have broken the market by signing the two most expensive defenders in the world, French left-back Benjamin Mendy, from AS Monaco (and great friend of Kyllian Mbappe), for which they have paid 57 million euros, and the right-handed side of his rival in this game, the English international Kyle Walker, for which they have paid 53 million more. In addition, the former Real Madrid player Danilo arrives at Etihad to fight for the position with Walker in exchange for another 30 million more, which together with the 50 million paid by the Portuguese Bernardo Silva and the 40 who have paid for the Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson, coming from SL Benfica, makes the skyblue team, by far, the team that has spent the most money this summer.

Eleven Probable: Ederson – Walker, Delph, Kompany, Otamendi – Fernandinho – David Silva, De Bruyne, Sané, Sterling – Gabriel Jesus.

After a zero tie in the season in which they won their first Premier League, the Foxes won the next two matches against the Citizens, including 4-2 with Guardiola already on the bench. In the last two clashes, City have won 2-1 and 0-2, they are already in season, and they are favorites to take this game, in a match in which they must win by more than one goal.
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Asian Handicap: Manchester City -1 2.10