Ahead of this weekend’s Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Huddersfield’s home clash with Leicester on Saturday.
Huddersfield vs Leicester (John Smith’s Stadium)
Team news
Huddersfield
Huddersfield midfielder Kasey Palmer will play no part against Leicester after being ruled out for several months due to a recurrence of a hamstring injury.
But fellow midfielder Jonathan Hogg and defender Martin Cranie could be included in the squad. Both are closing in on their first appearances of the season following respective ankle and hip injuries.
Kasey Palmer has been ruled out for several months with a hamstring injury
Striker Collin Quaner hopes to recover from the knee injury which forced him to miss Monday night’s defeat at West Ham.
Provisional squad: Lossl, Lowe, Schindler, Zanka, Smith, Billing, Mooy, Van La Parra, Ince, Kachunga, Mounie, Sabiri, Malone, Depoitre, Coleman, Quaner, Hadergjonaj, Hefele, Hogg, Cranie.
Leicester
Matty James and Christian Fuchs are injury doubts for Leicester ahead of their trip to Huddersfield.
Midfielder James has not trained this week after suffering an Achilles problem against Chelsea while full-back Fuchs is nursing an eye injury following a freak accident in training which saw a pole flick him in the face.
Christian Fuchs and Matty James are injury doubts for Leicester’s match with Huddersfield
Vicente Iborra (groin) is fit again and available for the first time this season while fellow summer signing Kelechi Iheanacho could make his full debut. Robert Huth (ankle) is also nearing full fitness and might be in the squad.
Provisional squad: Schmeichel, Jakupovic, Hamer, Simpson, Fuchs, Morgan, Huth, Chilwell, Maguire, Dragovic, Wasilewski, Benalouane, Iborra, Ndidi, Amartey, Gray, Albrighton, Thomas, Mahrez, Musa, Vardy, Ulloa, Slimani, Okazaki, Iheanacho.
Key match stats (supplied by Opta)
This will be the 60th competitive meeting between Huddersfield and Leicester but the first in the top-flight since the 1971-72 season.
Huddersfield have lost their last seven league games against Leicester; their joint-longest losing run versus an opponent (also vs Ipswich in 1988 and vs Wolves in 1948).
The Foxes have won three of their last four away games against Huddersfield (all comps), as many as in their previous 23 combined.
Huddersfield have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their last 11 matches against Leicester City in all competitions, last recording a shutout in November 1987 with Lee Martin in between the sticks that day.
Leicester City have lost five of their last seven Premier League matches (W1 D1 L5), this after Craig Shakespeare lost only two of his opening 10 games in charge of the team in the competition.
Craig Shakespeare’s Leicester side have lost five of their last seven Premier League matches
The Foxes have the lowest average possession figure of all Premier League sides so far in 2017-18 (36.6%).
Huddersfield have kept a clean sheet in their two Premier League home games so far – they could become only the third newly-promoted to keep a clean sheet in their opening three home games of a Premier League season after Swansea City (2011-12) and Watford (2015-16).
These two sides have both made a league-low one change to their starting XI overall this season in the Premier League.
Jamie Vardy has had a hand in 14 goals (11 goals, three assists) in 17 Premier League appearances under Craig Shakespeare.
Riyad Mahrez has attempted a league-high 26 dribbles this season in the Premier League, but he’s only beaten his opponent with 10 of these (38%).