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Leicester City pack their bags to visit Burnley at Turf Moor on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Foxes will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 27 and win only 8 of the 48 games.
The previous match played between the two at Turf Moor was within the last three years, in December 2007, where the two sides shared the spoils courtesy of a 1 - 1 final scoreline in a Championship match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2007/2008 | Tue 04 Dec | Burnley | 1 - 1 | Leicester City | CHMP |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 10 Nov | Leicester City | 0 - 1 | Burnley | CHMP |
| 2006/2007 | Tue 20 Feb | Burnley | 0 - 1 | Leicester City | CHMP |
| 2006/2007 | Tue 08 Aug | Leicester City | 0 - 1 | Burnley | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 19 Nov | Burnley | 1 - 0 | Leicester City | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Tue 18 Oct | Leicester City | 0 - 1 | Burnley | CHMP |
| 2004/2005 | Tue 08 Mar | Burnley | 0 - 0 | Leicester City | CHMP |
Recent respective form guides
Burnley's home form is poor, winning just 2 of the last six, and losing the other 4. While Clarets have scored 7, a worringly large 15 have been leaked at the other end.
Leicester City's away form is none too clever either, winning and losing 3 each of the last six games. The Foxes's have scored 9 goals in these games, but conceded an alarming 11.
Burnley lie just outside the playoff positions in the Npower Championship, picking up 4 points from their 2 games so far. Leicester City find themselves struggling down in 17th position in the league having picked up 1 points from their 2 matches.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Burnley | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| Leicester City | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 10 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
A creditable return from recent away games for Foxes could well see them head back from Turf Moor with a share of the spoils, think the FootyMad panel. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Burnley | 7 games since last home draw. Unbeaten run of 3 matches. |
| Leicester City | 11 games since last away draw. |