Leicester City vs Ipswich Town Prediction, Preview & Betting Tips

Leicester City’s home encounter with Ipswich Town will be a fascinating one as both sides are merely playing for pride as they have both been relegated back to the Championship.

Despite of this, Leicester’s form has somewhat improved of late, as they have earned impressive draws at both Brighton and Nottingham Forest while also grabbing a confidence-boosting victory over Southampton.

With the Foxes being the more in-form team while also having home advantage, we believe that they are the favourites to win this match. Ipswich are currently on a six game winless run and have won just three of their 18 Premier League away matches.

Prediction: Leicester City 1-0 Ipswich Town

Leicester City goes head-to-head with Ipswich Town in a meeting of 19th and 18th-place in the Premier League.

Date: 18/05/2025

Location: King Power Stadium

Time: 3pm

The last meeting between these two sides resulted in a 1-1 draw at Portman Road on 2nd November as Jordan Ayew scored a dramatic 94th-minute equaliser for the Foxes after Leif Davis had given the Tractor Boys the lead in the 56th-minute. During that game, Kalvin Phillips was sent off in the 77th-minute.

Leicester City’s season has been a poor one, as they sit 19th-place with 22 points from 36 matches. Ruud van Nistelrooy will be disappointed with how his tenure has gone, as the Dutch manager arrived with a glowing reputation from fans of PSV and Manchester United, however, the 48-year-old has won just four of his 25 games in charge, meaning that he has a 16% win percentage.

Prior to van Nistelrooy’s arrival, the Foxes were under the management of Steve Cooper and won just three of their 15 matches under the Welshman.

Ipswich’s struggles are much more understandable, as the Tractor Boys were plying their trade in League One in the 2022/23 season, as they have had a remarkable rise under Kieran McKenna. Town are on the same amount of points as Sunday’s opponents, as they also have 22 points from 36 games.

Leicester City versus Ipswich Town will not be broadcast live on UK TV.

Leicester City

Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Stephy Mavididi are all injury doubts for this game.

Ipswich Town

Arijanet Muric, Conor Townsend, Nathan Broadhead, Wes Burns, Sammie Szmodics and Jaden Philogene are all set to miss Ipswich’s trip to Leicester due to injury.

Leicester City

Leicester City earned a solid 2-2 draw away at Nottingham Forest last time out thanks to goals from Conor Coady and Facundo Buonanotte. That draw came after the Foxes beat Southampton 2-0 at the King Power Stadium thanks to goals by Jamie Vardy and Jordan Ayew.

Prior to those matches, Leicester suffered defeats to Wolverhampton Wanderers (3-0) and Liverpool (1-0) after drawing 2-2 away at Brighton & Hove Albion.

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town suffered a 1-0 home loss to Brentford in their last outing as Kevin Schade scored the only goal of the game.

In the run-up to that match, the Tractor Boys had drawn 2-2 with both Everton and Chelsea on either side of a 3-0 loss at Newcastle United and a 4-0 home defeat to Arsenal.

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