Match Preview: Millwall v Leicester City (Tuesday, 7.45pm)

Leicester City travel to Millwall on late Tuesday in the Championship.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a win in their last match, having beaten Birmingham City 2-1 at home, with goals from Stephy Mavididi and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

The Lions, meanwhile, lost their last match, 1-0 against Huddersfield Town.

Leicester are top of the table after 40 games, of which they have won 28 and drawn four, earning 88 points.

Millwall are 19 places behind City in 20th, with 11 wins and 11 draws putting them on 44 points.

With 79 goals in 40 games so far this season, the Foxes are the league’s second-highest scorers with 2.0 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in 36 goals at a rate of 0.9 per game.

The Lions, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 0.9 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.3. They have conceded 1.3 goals per game.

With Mads Hermansen between the sticks, the visitors can rely on one of the league’s safest pair of hands. He has kept 12 clean sheets in his 39 appearances this season in the Championship.

In the home side’s net, Matija Šarkić has eight clean sheets in 27 games. He has conceded a goal every 87 minutes, 30% more often than the 117 minutes between goals for Hermansen.

Millwall are in disappointing form in the Championship, with one win and two draws from their last six games.

With three wins and a draw over that period, Leicester’s form is better – they have taken 10 points from 18, compared to Millwall’s five.

In the last three years, Millwall and Leicester have played each other on three occasions. Leicester won all of them.

Their last meeting was on January 6, when Leicester won 3-2 away.

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Millwall v Leicester City
Championship | The Den
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 @ 7.45pm

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