Bournemouth are going to come up against a side that has had a confident start to the season and under Brendan Rodgers they have a manager that prepares well for every game. It's true to say that Bournemouth have always had good battles against Leicester City and this one is perhaps one of the most important games of the season for AFCB coming off the back of their first defeat against Man City
So I expect Leicester to be organised and trying to play to Vardy's strengths.The tricky James Maddison is the player that Bournemouth will hope to shackle right from the start as everything good tends to go through him while there could be another problem in the new record signing of Youri Tielemans who is no doubt eager to get his first goal at his new club.
While Bournemouth do have some strong counter-attacking players, they will need to do much better in front of goal from what we saw when the team played Man City and Forest Green. Callum Wilson and Josh King are likely to start, but they have to put more pressure on Casper Schmeichel than we have seen Bournemouth do to other keeper's this season. AFCB's weakness is that they have not shown they can keep a clean sheet, and if their strikers are not able to find a bit of form in front of goal, it could be a time of major reflection for AFCB during the international break.
Leicester City are a good team, but AFCB will be left in the wrong half of the table with a defeat. So Eddie Howe needs to get the team working well for this match and while he is unlikely to change the team much from the Man City game, he needs more spark from players like Callum Wilson and Ryan Fraser who had such good seasons last year.
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Leicester have only had one clean sheet which was against Wolves in their first game of the season, but they have conceded just two goals so the absence of Harry Maguire hasn't been showing yet. They have not been bagging a lot of goals, but Vardy has scored along with Ndidi. They've also had a youngster in Harvey Barnes stun Sheffield United with a late winner.
So I expect Leicester to be organised and trying to play to Vardy's strengths.The tricky James Maddison is the player that Bournemouth will hope to shackle right from the start as everything good tends to go through him while there could be another problem in the new record signing of Youri Tielemans who is no doubt eager to get his first goal at his new club.
Leicester City are a good team, but AFCB will be left in the wrong half of the table with a defeat. So Eddie Howe needs to get the team working well for this match and while he is unlikely to change the team much from the Man City game, he needs more spark from players like Callum Wilson and Ryan Fraser who had such good seasons last year.
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Also Leicester played their full first team squad on Wednesday, so should be playing some more than usually tired legs.
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