Leicester vs Liverpool: PL team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats

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 Leicester's home clash with Liverpool at the King Power Stadium.

Leicester team news

Jamie Vardy will miss Saturday's Premier League clash with Liverpool as he serves the last match of a three-game suspension.

Matty James remains sidelined with an Achilles problem with Leicester suffering no new injury concerns.

Turkey defender Caglar Soyuncu is still awaiting his Leicester debut after his summer switch from Freiburg.

Provisional squad: Schmeichel, Ward, Jakupovic, Simpson, Chilwell, Morgan, Evans, Pereira, Maguire, Benkovic, Fuchs, Benalouane, Gray, Maddison, Albrighton, Amartey, Iborra, Silva, Mendy, Ndidi, Ghezzal, Kapustka, King, Choudhury, Iheanacho, Diabate, Okazaki, Soyuncu.

Liverpool team news

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp must decide whether to stick with an unchanged side for the fourth successive match ahead of the trip to Leicester.

Captain Jordan Henderson has been a substitute in all three matches so far, managing just over an hour's pitch time, while fellow midfielder and new signing Fabinho has not even made the last two squads.

Defender Dejan Lovren (hip) is still sidelined.

Provisional squad: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Keita, Salah, Firmino, Mane, Mignolet, Clyne, Matip, Moreno, Fabinho, Lallana, Henderson, Sturridge, Shaqiri.

Leicester and Liverpool - Key match stats

*Stats supplied by Opta

Leicester have won three of their last four home meetings with Liverpool in all competitions, though they did lose this exact fixture 3-2 last season.

Liverpool have won eight of their last 12 Premier League meetings with Leicester (D2 L2), though they have lost this fixture in two of the last three seasons (2015-16 and 2016-17).

Leicester have lost their last 10 Premier League matches against sides starting the day top of the table, scoring just four goals while conceding 25 in those matches.

Liverpool have won their last four Premier League games without conceding a goal – they last had a longer winning run without conceding in December 2005, a run of eight under Rafael Benitez.

Liverpool are looking to win their opening four games of a Premier League season for the first time. They last opened a top-flight campaign with four wins back in 1990-91 under Kenny Dalglish.

Liverpool have kept three clean sheets in their opening three Premier League games in 2018-19 – the only previous occasion they haven’t conceded in any of their first four league games in a season was back in 2005-06.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson could become the fourth goalkeeper in Premier League history to keep a clean sheet in his first four starts, after Alex Manninger (first six), Anders Lindegaard (first five) and Jose Reina (first four).

Since Leicester returned to the Premier League in 2014-15, Jamie Vardy has scored 43% of Leicester’s league goals against ‘big six’ opposition (27 of 63 goals) – however, he is suspended and will miss this match.

50% of the six 90th minute goals scored in the 2018-19 Premier League season have been scored by Leicester (2) or Liverpool (1), while these sides are responsible for 12 of the 37 goals scored in the final minute in 2018 (Leicester with eight, Liverpool with four).

Since the start of last season, Liverpool haven’t won any of the eight Premier League matches when Mo Salah has started but failed to register a goal or assist (D4 L4).