Championship · 2025Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 14:00 UTCFull timeDeepdaleFull-time recap

Preston North End

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Leicester City

This page describes the completed match context. The result is not presented as a prior forecast.

This match

Match statistics

Metric	Preston North End	Leicester City
Shots	14 shots/match	14 shots/match
Shots on target	4 shots/match▲	2 shots/match
Expected goals	2.48 xG/match▲	0.92 xG/match
Possession	40%	60%●
Corners	6 corners/match●	4 corners/match
Fouls	11 fouls/match	7 fouls/match

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Each team attacks towards its own end of the pitch.

off target
on target
goal
penalty
size = xG

Preston North End: 14 shots, 4 on target, 2.47 xG. Leicester City: 14 shots, 2 on target, 0.93 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: Preston North End 2.47 xG · Leicester City 0.93 xG.

30-second read

What the record shows

The available record does not support a clear cross-team pattern. No second pattern clears the sample and coverage gates. Limitation: At least one team has fewer than the configured season sample.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams — history, not a forecast.

0Preston North End

0Draws

2Leicester City

29 Apr 2024Preston North End — Leicester City · Championship0–3

4 Oct 2023Leicester City — Preston North End · Championship3–0

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages · sample sizes shown with each metric. Context, not a forecast.

Where the edge is

Preston North End favored in 0 of 13 directional metrics · Leicester City in 0 · 13 too close

—Goals scoredseason · 2/2—

—Goals allowedseason · 2/2—

—Expected goalsseason · 2/2—

—Expected goals allowedseason · 2/2—

—Shotsseason · 2/2—

—Shots allowedseason · 2/2—

—Shots on targetseason · 2/2—

—Shots on target allowedseason · 2/2—

—Possessionseason · 2/2—

—Cornersseason · 2/2—

—Corners allowedseason · 2/2—

—Cardsseason · 0/0—

—Foulsseason · 2/2—

—Passesseason · 0/0—

—Pass accuracyseason · 0/0—

—Shots inside boxseason · 0/0—

—Blocked shotsseason · 0/0—

—Goalkeeper savesseason · 0/0—

—Offsidesseason · 0/0—

—Clean-sheet frequencyseason · 2/2—

Combined event-volume percentiles for shots, corners and fouls.

Preston North End—

Leicester City—

0–100 competition percentile · coverage 100%

Recent form

Season, last 10 and last 5

Window

Season

Preston North End2 matchesLeicester City2 matches

—Goals scored2/2—

—Goals allowed2/2—

—Expected goals2/2—

—Shots2/2—

—Shots on target2/2—

—Possession2/2—

—Corners2/2—

—Cards0/0—

—Fouls2/2—

Venue split

Home and away samples

Window

Home team at home / away team away

Preston North End1 matchesLeicester City1 matches

—Goals scored1/1—

—Goals allowed1/1—

—Expected goals1/1—

—Shots1/1—

—Shots on target1/1—

—Possession1/1—

—Corners1/1—

—Cards0/0—

—Fouls1/1—

Schedule context

Rest and recent workload

7 daysRest before fixtureprevious completed fixtures · 1/15.94 days

1 matchesMatches in previous 14 daysprevious completed fixtures · 1/11 matches

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade C · Limited evidencelimited

Season samples2 / 2home / away teams

Recent samples2 / 2last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

At least one team has fewer than the configured season sample.
At least one team has an incomplete last-five window.
Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: goals_for, goals_against, xg_for, xg_against, shots, shots_on_target, possession, corners, cards, fouls.
The completed-match sample is too small for broad style conclusions.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 18:00 UTC · analysis-v4