CARABAO CUP: We preview Wednesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg between LEICESTER v ASTON VILLA with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
LEICESTER V ASTON VILLA
8pm Leicester host Aston Villa in the first leg of the second Carabao Cup semi-final on Wednesday night. It’s fair to say that both sides will be delighted with the draw – Leicester wouldn’t have minded getting United but Villa would have been hoping for Leicester and Leicester will obviously see Villa as the best chance to get to the final. Leicester have been excellent this season and this will probably be Villa’s biggest clash of the season unless they get into a relegation fight towards the end of the season.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Leicester 1.4, Aston Villa 8.8 and the draw is 5.3. Villa got lucky in the quarter finals against Liverpool when it clashed with the Club World Cup; Liverpool fielded an academy side and Villa won easily. Leicester have been hard to fault this season – they have scored a huge amount of goals and while they have come up short against the real top sides; you couldn’t expect them to beat the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City.
Villa’s aim here will surely to be get to the second leg with the game still very close. Leicester have been very dangerous this season with Vardy in excellent form and Villa would probably take a one goal loss tonight heading into the second leg. A draw or win would be a huge bonus and that might make it a dull affair. Leicester can’t go all-out attack given it’s a two leg game and under 2.5 goals looks cracking value at 2.42. We have it closer to 2.0 and expect a tight game here with Leicester eventually running out 1-0 or 2-0 winners.
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Under 2.5 goals at 2.42.
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MATCH STATS
- Leicester and Aston Villa faced in the League Cup semi-final the last time the Foxes reached this stage in 1999/2000, with Leicester winning 1-0 on aggregate and going on to win the trophy.
- Aston Villa have lost their last two away matches against Leicester, in the Premier League during 2015 – their last away win at the King Power was in the League Cup back in October 2006, a 3-2 victory under Martin O’Neill.
- Leicester have gone on to reach the final of the League Cup on each of the five occasions they’ve played at the semi-final stage (1963/64, 1964/65, 1996/97, 1998/99 and 1999/2000).
- This is Aston Villa’s 15th League Cup semi-final tie and their first since 2012/13, when they lost 4-3 on aggregate to Bradford City. They’ve only won the first leg in two of their previous 14 League Cup semi-finals (W2 D7 L5).
- Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has progressed from his last 29 domestic cup ties with Liverpool, Celtic and Leicester – the last team to beat Rodgers was Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final in 2014/15, when he was Liverpool manager.
- Aston Villa have scored 16 goals in the League Cup this season, six more than any other team. They’ve had two wins by five goals this season (6-1 v Crewe, 5-0 v Liverpool), the first team to achieve that in a single League Cup campaign since Man City in 2013/14, who won the tournament.
- Leicester’s James Maddison has scored four goals and assisted five in his last eight League Cup appearances, scoring in each of his three matches this season.
- Aston Villa have won their last four League Cup matches, last winning five in a row back in October 1994.
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