Spartak vs Leicester: UEFA Europa League Live| Kick off time, Live Streaming, When and where to watch Spartak vs Leicester, Live score, Teams, Prediction, Online Channel

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Jehan Mucadum
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Spartak vs Leicester: Spartak looks to make it successive wins in Group C when they face Leicester City in the Europa League on Wednesday.

Match Details:

Teams: Spartak vs Leicester

Venue: Otkrytiye Arena, Moskva, Russian Federation

Date: Wednesday 20th October, 2021

Time: 08:00 PM IST

Live Link: http://www.sonyliv.com/

Preview

The Russian side beat Napoli in their last match of the Europa League 2-3 away and will look to build on that victory, if they are to seek progress.

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Elmas gave the hosts a first minute lead before Promes scored twice to make it 2-1. Ignatov made it 3-1 in the 80th minute hoping to close out the win.

Osimhen managed to pull one back late in extra time but could not enforce a result as Spartak kept their one goal advantage intact.

This was Spartak’s first win of the competition after an opening day loss.

On the other hand, Leicester was beaten by Legia Warszawa 1-0 away on MD 2 and eye a return to winning ways.

Emreli scored the only goal of the match to ensure Leicester remain rooted to the bottom of the table with just 1 point from 2 matches.

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The Foxes will look to translate their Premier League form into the Europa League as they look to mount a challenge starting tonight.

Form Guide

Spartak: LWWWD

Leicester: WDLDW

Last Matches of both teams:

Spartak 2-2 Dinamo

Leicester 4-2 Manchester United

Where to watch the live stream and broadcast of Spartak vs Leicester in India?

The match is live streamed on the Sony LIV App, Jio TV, while the broadcast is on Sony Six.

Team News

Ponce (meniscus), Melkadze (Muscle), Umyarov (calf), Maslov (tendon), Promes (knee) are all unavailable for the hosts.

Caufriez is suspended for this clash after he picked up a red card against Napoli.

Meanwhile; Leicester City has Justin, Mendy, Ndidi and Fofana ruled due to injury concerns.

Spartak possible 11:

Maksimenko, Dzhikiya, Gigot, Rasskazov, Ayrton, Litvinov, Zobnin, Moses, Larsson, Bakaev and Sobolev

Leicester possible 11:

Schmeichel, Castagne, Evans, Vestergaard, Pereira, Tielemans, Maddison, Soumaré, Barnes, Iheanacho and Vardy

Prediction: Spartak 1-2 Leicester

Leicester City are the side under pressure heading into this one. Hence, we expect them to come out all guns blazing in order to gain the result.

Spartak’s victory on MD 2 gives them confidence as well ahead of this clash and will make this an affair to remember.

But we back Leicester to win as they have the better players at the moment, are in form.

Players to watch out for: Moses, Sobolev, Barnes, Iheanacho.


       

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