Leeds United’s new manager, Jesse Marsch will look to get off to a winning start when he takes his side to visit Leicester City for this crunch Premier League game. The American will quickly want to plug holes in a very leaky defence that conceded 20 goals in last month alone. Leeds’ defence has always been poor, but this time they just concede and rarely score, which forced them to sack Marcelo Bielsa. Leicester City is recovering from a bad form which nearly cost Brendan Rodgers his job and they will want to get their three points from Leeds. They have won their last two matches against Randers and Burnley. The return of Jamie Vardy to full fitness means they will have a strong squad for this game. While Leicester have three wins from their last five matches, Leeds has lost their last four matches in all competitions and conceded 10 goals in the last two. This stat means Vardy could take good advantage of the Whites and score as many goals as he could in this game. Matches between these two sides have been close, but Leeds are unbeaten in the last two head to heads.

Everton faces the toughest test of the Frank Lampard era when Manchester City comes to town for this fixture. The Toffees have been inconsistent since the former midfielder became their boss and they would face a City side that needs to be ruthless. Tottenham beat Pep Guardiola’s side in their last league game to blow the title race wide open and Lampard can help Liverpool close the gap at the top. He played for Chelsea and now manages Everton, so he is the wrong person to help Liverpool, but his team needs a positive result more than the Reds do. Everton has lost two and won two of their competitive matches under Lampard, but they have lost two of their last three matches in the league. Before losing to Tottenham, City were on a splendid run of form and Pep Guardiola’s side is a well-oiled machine that can easily return to form. They would play under some kind of pressure in this game, but Everton would need to be at their brilliant best to stop the defending champions from winning.

Liverpool will look to close the gap between them and Manchester City to just three points when they face Leeds in this rescheduled game. The Reds were at one stage 12 points behind City, but they have now closed the gap on the defending champions. Jurgen Klopp’s men have been brought back into the title race after Tottenham thrashed  City 2-3 at the weekend to blow the race open. Liverpool added  Luis Diaz to their attack in the January transfer window and they now have one of the strongest squads in England. The Colombian has not needed time to get used to playing for them and he would be keen to ensure keeps doing well when selected. Leeds are struggling in this campaign and would still spend most of it battling to remain in the Premier League. Marcelo Bielsa’s side heads into this game with no win from their last four games and three of them have been losses. They also have a poor record against Liverpool with no wins from their last five head to heads. The Whites have also lost four of those fixtures.

Liverpool will host Leicester City in this exciting Premier League game that brings Brendan Rodgers back to his old club. The Northern Irish man almost won the league with the Reds in the 2013/2014 season, but Klopp eventually did it in the 2019/2020 campaign. He has since won league titles in Scotland with Celtic and recently won the FA Cup with his current Foxes team. They have been eliminated from all the cup competitions and will now focus on a good run in the Premier League, but this game against Liverpool will be tough. The Reds had to deal with losing Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to the AFCON, yet they have done very well in their absence. Jurgen Klopp’s men remain in every competition including the Carabao Cup where they have already reached the final. However, they want to win the league most especially and they are currently second on the table, behind Manchester City. The champions are above Liverpool with nine points, but they have played a game more and they know Klopp’s men can do whatever they can. Leicester is currently 11th on the league table and continues to struggle for consistency. They have not won any of their last three games in all competition. However, they earned an impressive 1-0 win over Liverpool earlier in the year despite having a makeshift defence. Liverpool has not lost any of their last five home matches against Leicester City, winning four of them.

Antonio Conte’s Tottenham will host the ever improving Southampton for this exciting Premier League fixture. Conte is turning Spurs into a very hard club to beat. The Italian has won the Premier League before, so that shouldn’t be much of a surprise. He would now look to get them inside the top four by the end of this campaign, but he knows Soton are tricky opponents to face. The Saints have remained stable despite almost always losing their best players to other clubs in the Premier League. They are currently 12th on the league table, but you can almost confidently bet that they will finish the campaign higher. The Saints have lost just once in their last three Premier League games and it wasn’t to Manchester City whom they faced in that run. They stopped City’s long winning run in a 1-1 draw and that will give them confidence that they can earn a result from this fixture. Spurs lost back to back games against Chelsea, but they have generally been in fine form recently and produced a stunning comeback against Leicester City not so long ago. They haven’t lost to Southampton in their last five head to heads and that should give them confidence that they can also win this fixture.