League Cup Round of 16

Manchester United 5:2 Leicester City

Old Trafford

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Wed, 30 October 2024 @ 7:45pm GMT
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    Date: Wednesday, October 30 2024
    Kickoff Time: 1945 Hrs GMT
    Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester


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    League Cup Form Guide

    Manchester United: WW
    Leicester City: WD


    Previous League Cup Meetings


    Manchester United 2—0 Leicester City

    Leicester City 2—0 Manchester United

    Manchester United 5—1 Leicester City


    All-Time League Cup Record

    Manchester United wins: 2
    Leicester City wins: 1
    Draws:


    Pre-Match Pressers

    Ruud van Nistelrooy




    Steve Cooper





    Team News

    Manchester United

    Leny Yoro, Harry Maguire, Mason Mount, Luke Shaw, Tyrell Malacia, Victor Lindelöf and Antony ruled out. Noussair Mazraoui doubtful.


    Leicester City

    Patson Daka, Jakub Stolarczyk, Victor Kristiansen and Hamza Choudhury ruled out.


    Know the opposition

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    Leicester City Football Club (nicknamed The Foxes, The Blues, City, and Blue Army), are a professional football club based in Leicester. The club was founded in 1884 by a group of old boys of Wyggeston School as Leicester Fosse because it played on a field by the Fosse Road. The club joined The Football Association (FA) in 1890. The club also joined the Midland League in 1891, and were elected to Division Two of the Football League in 1894 after finishing second. Leicester's first ever Football League game was a 4–3 defeat at Grimsby Town, with a first League win the following week, against Rotherham United at Filbert Street. The same season also saw the club's largest win to date, a 13–0 victory over Notts Olympic in an FA Cup qualifying game. In 1907–08 the club finished as Second Division runners-up, gaining promotion to the First Division, the highest level of English football.

    In 1919, when League football resumed after World War I, Leicester Fosse ceased trading due to financial difficulties of which little is known. The club was reformed as Leicester City Football Club, particularly appropriate as the borough of Leicester had recently been given city status. Following the name change, the club enjoyed moderate success in the 1920s. Leicester reached the FA Cup final for the first time in their history in 1949, losing 3–1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Under the management of Matt Gillies, Leicester reached the FA Cup final on another two occasions, but lost in both 1961 and 1963. As they lost to double winners Tottenham Hotspur in 1961, they were England's representatives in the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup. In the 1962–63 season, the club led the First Division during the winter, thanks to a sensational run of form on icy and frozen pitches the club became nicknamed the "Ice Kings" eventually placed fourth, the club's best post-war finish. Gillies guided Leicester to their first piece of silverware in 1964, when Leicester beat Stoke City 4–3 on aggregate to win the League Cup for the first time.

    Leicester appointed former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri as their new manager for the new 2015–16 Premier League season. Despite an initially skeptical reaction to Ranieri's appointment, the club made an exceptional start to the season. A 2–0 victory at Sunderland on 10 April, coupled with Tottenham Hotspur's 3–0 win over Manchester United, ensured Leicester's qualification for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history. Leicester won the Premier League on 2 May 2016 after Tottenham lost a 2–0 lead against Chelsea, drawing 2–2 at the "Battle of Stamford Bridge". This completed the fastest seven-year rise to the title except for Ipswich Town in 1962. Leicester City's most prominent rivals are Nottingham Forest, Coventry City and Derby County, and they have been playing their home games at The King Power Stadium (originally named Filbert Way) since 2002.



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    Referee

    Andrew Madley.​
     
    It's a Cup game. We win this comfortably and ETH and his followers let us know how good he is.
     
    A cup game at home against Leicester.. almost certainly a win. We are a good cup team. Thats nice.
     
    Zirkzee
    Rashford Eriksen Bruno Amad
    Collyer Ugarte
    Martinez Evans Lindelof
    Onana

    EDIT:

    Now that Ruud's interim, I think he'll go with:

    Off the ball:

    Hojlund Amad
    Rashford Bruno Ugarte Garnacho
    Amass Martinez Evans Dalot
    Onana

    On the ball:

    Hojlund
    Amass Rashford Amad Garnacho
    Bruno Ugarte
    Martinez Evans Dalot
    Onana
     
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    Beating Leicester in the league cup at home feels like the type of thing that should keep you in a job for the next few months at least...
     
    It's a Cup game. We win this comfortably and ETH and his followers let us know how good he is.
    Normally I expect us to lose, but I do agree with you.
    I think we'll beat LCFC and then go back to losing and drawing in our very next match.
     
    Leicester will make some changes, we'll make some changes but I think we'll have enough to win
     
    Our main chance to win a trophy this season so that some people can again argue that we had a better campaign than Arsenal whilst we slip into obscurity.
     
    Zirkzee
    Rashford Eriksen Bruno Amad
    Collyer Ugarte
    Martinez Evans Lindelof
    Onana​
    It's not a bad idea to try something new. I might bench a CAM (Eriksen or Bruno) for an attacker (Hojlund/Garnacho).
     
    Will scrape a win before being embarrassed by Chelsea.
     
    Have never rated this Mickey Mouse competition... just a prelude to United 0 Chelsea 4
     
    Please do something different, at least we know what is happening isn't working, change the system:

    Onana
    De Ligt Evans Martinez
    Amad Bruno Ugarte Eriksen Mazraoui
    Hojlund Rashford
     
    The way they missed glorious chances against WHU can we have Ruud as player manager please?
     
    Onana
    Dalot - De Ligt - Martinez - Maz
    Casemiro - Ugarte
    Amad - Bruno - Rashford
    Hojlund

    League cup and all, we have a new manager, albeit interim, so we need to start strong.
     
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Player Ratings

6.2 Total Average Rating

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Compiled from 158 ratings.

Score Predictions

142,17,2
  • Man Utd win
  • Leicester win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 23% Man Utd 2:0 Leicester
  • 20% Man Utd 2:1 Leicester
  • 19% Man Utd 3:0 Leicester
  • 16% Man Utd 3:1 Leicester
  • 4% Man Utd 1:0 Leicester
  • 2% Man Utd 0:2 Leicester
  • 2% Man Utd 5:0 Leicester
  • 2% Man Utd 1:2 Leicester
  • 2% Man Utd 4:1 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 0:1 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 0:9 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 4:0 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 2:3 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 1:3 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 2:2 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 1:1 Leicester
  • 1% Man Utd 2:6 Leicester
Compiled from 161 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Man Utd
  2. Leicester
Overall Possession
56.4% 43.6%
Shots
23 16
Shots on target
9 7
Shots off target
8 5
Blocked shots
6 4
Total touches in the box
30 25
Goalkeeper saves
5 4
Fouls
8 5
Corners
5 3