Leicester City and Norwich City at the King Power Stadium!
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COMMENTARY
21' GOOD CHANCE! Tieleman plays the corner short to Maddison and he takes a touch before curling a brilliant cross into the box. Ndidi rises highest to meet it and makes good contact with the header, but sends his effort over the bar.
20' Iheanacho unselfishly tries to lay the ball off to Ndidi on the edge of the box instead of going for goal himself, but he overhits the pass. It rolls through to Chilwell on the left and he does put a cross into the box, but it's blocked by Zimmermann.
18' Norwich look a lot more confident going forward after Pukki's chance and are moving the ball around quicker than before. Aarons cuts inside and tries to set up Cantwell on the edge of the box, but Evans makes a good tackle to win it back.
16' GREAT CHANCE! Aarons finds himself in a lot of space on the right side and curls a brilliant cross into Pukki in the six-yard box. The forward is unmarked when he stretches out to get on the ball but he manages to send the ball spinning wide of the far post from close range.
14' GOOD SAVE! Norwich doesn't keep hold of the ball for long as Tielemans wins it back and drills his shot towards the bottom left corner from just outside the box. Krul gets down quickly to deny him and reacts quickly to catch the ball again when he sees Vardy running onto it.
13' Leicester work it upfield really well and Iheanacho drifts out to the right to pick up the ball. He fizzes it into Maddison on the edge of the box when he gets it, but the midfielder trips over the ball which allows Norwich to win it back.
11' Pukki flicks on the resulting corner to Tettey who is unmarked on the right of the box. The captain hits the shot on the volley, but Chilwell makes a good block to deny him. There are a few half-hearted shouts for handball, but the referee waves away the claims.
10' Norwich string together a good run of passes to weave their way past Leicester's midfield and they get it out to Buendia on the left-wing. He swings a cross into the box, but it's blocked by Evans at the near post.
8' Norwich are trying to push upfield whenever they win the ball back, but their passing has been letting them down so far. Aarons tries to pick out Cantwell with a short pass, but he overhits it and sends it out for a throw-in.
6' Iheanacho drops his shoulder to get past Godfrey and rides the challenge from Tettey to get to the edge of the box. He goes for goal himself but it's straight at Krul and a comfortable one for the goalkeeper to deal with.
4' A poor touch from Cantwell gifts the ball to Vardy and he makes a darting run down the left wing before putting a cross into the box. Both Maddison and Iheanacho are waiting in the middle, but it's too high for both of them.
2' Leicester are keeping the ball well in an opening couple of minutes as they're passing it around in their own half and patiently moving out from the back.
1' Pukki gets the game underway for Norwich!
The teams are out on the pitch now, with kick-off just moments away.
No side has conceded the first goal in more Premier League games this season than Norwich (10), with the Canaries going on to lose every single one of those. Meanwhile, Leicester has won their last 19 league games when scoring first.
Daniel Farke makes just two changes to his side after their loss to Sheffield United last Sunday, with Trybull and Cantwell both coming into the team. They replace Hernandez and Vrancic who drop down to the bench.
Brendan Rodgers was clearly impressed with his team's performance in their win over Aston Villa last weekend as he names an unchanged side. Vardy leads the line again and has a chance to extend his current eight-match scoring run.
NORWICH CITY SUBS: Mario Vrancic, Marco Stiepermann, Onel Hernandez, Jamal Lewis, Ibrahim Amadou, Dennis Srbeny, Ralf Fahrmann.
NORWICH CITY STARTING XI (4-2-3-1): Tim Krul; Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Ben Godfrey, Sam Byram; Alexander Tettey, Tom Trybull; Emiliano Buendia, Kenny McLean, Todd Cantwell; Teemu Pukki.
LEICESTER CITY SUBS: Danny Ward, Harvey Barnes, James Justin, Wes Morgan, Demarai Gray, Marc Albrighton, Ayoze Perez.
LEICESTER CITY STARTING XI (4-3-1-2): Kasper Schmeichel; Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans, Caglar Soyuncu, Ben Chilwell; Dennis Praet, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans; James Maddison; Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy.
Leicester comes into this game looking to extend their record eight-match winning run in the league and close the gap to Liverpool back to eight points at the top after the Reds beat Watford earlier today. Norwich starts the day in the relegation zone and in need of a win as they look to turn their season around. They've won just one of their last 11 games in the competition (D2 L8), which was a 2-0 victory against Everton in November.
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