CARABAO CUP SEMI FINAL TUESDAY: We preview Tuesday’s Carabao Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg between ASTON VILLA v LEICESTER with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
ASTON VILLA V LEICESTER
7.45pm It’s crunch time in the Carabao Cup semi-finals this week! With Manchester City effectively already through after hammering Manchester United away from home; this tie becomes the focus. Villa managed a 1-1 draw away from home in the first leg and with Leicester’s form slipping a little lately the home side will surely fancy their chances of getting to the final.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Aston Villa 4.7, Leicester 1.76 and the draw is 4.4. Aston didn’t have a game at the weekend in the FA Cup, so they’ve had plenty of time to fully prepare for this fixture. A League Cup final would be a massive achievement for a club like Villa and there’s no doubt this will have been a priority since they got through the Quarter Finals. They had a huge win against Watford in the Premier League at the bottom of the table and they should play for confidence.
Leicester got back to winning ways at home to West Ham after a poor run of form in the Premier League. They won away at the weekend in the FA Cup, but we should see a full strength side tonight. They have struggled since losing to Manchester City and Liverpool in the league, perhaps a dent to their confidence after mixing it with the big boys towards the top of the table. They’ve lost to Burnley and Southampton since.
This is undoubtedly a massive game for both sides, and we can really see it being a lot closer than odds of 1.76 suggest on Leicester. From a value point of view, we’re very happy to lay the away side – Villa have had plenty of time to prepare, have home advantage and have been fighting hard in the Premier League recently. There’s plenty of reasons why they can get a result here and at the odds we’re happy to support them.
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MATCH STATS
- Aston Villa lost 4-1 to Leicester City in the Premier League earlier this season – the Villans haven’t lost consecutive home games against the Foxes in all competitions since August 1969.
- Each of the last six teams to draw the first leg of the League Cup semi-final at home have then gone on to be eliminated in the second leg.
- Aston Villa managed just three shots in the first leg at the King Power Stadium, fewer than two Leicester players had in the match – James Maddison (8) and Jamie Vardy (4).
- Leicester are unbeaten in their last 16 away League Cup matches (W11 D5), though two of those draws saw the Foxes eliminated on penalties.
- Aston Villa manager Dean Smith is looking to become the first Englishman to reach a League Cup final since Bradford City’s Phil Parkinson in 2012-13, while the last Englishman to do so with a Premier League club was Harry Redknapp with Spurs in 2008-09.
- Leicester have won just four of their 34 away League Cup matches against top-flight sides (W4 D9 L21), though one of those wins was at Villa Park against Aston Villa in September 2007.
- Aston Villa have scored 17 goals in this season’s League Cup, last scoring more in a single campaign in the 1999-2000 season, when they netted 18.
- Leicester striker Kelechi Iheanacho has been involved in seven goals in his last four appearances against Aston Villa (5 goals, 2 assists), including scoring against the Villans as a substitute in the first leg at the King Power Stadium.
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