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Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text commentary of Leicester and Aston Villa in the Premier League. Dean Smith's side are hoping to continue their 100 per cent winning start to the campaign and come into this game off the back of that amazing 7-2 victory over Liverpool. The Foxes, meanwhile, had their run ended by West Ham before the international break. Team news to follow, kick-off is an hour away.

Premier League / Matchday 5
King Power Stadium / 18.10.2020
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Marcus Foley

Updated 18/10/2020 at 20:11 GMT


6'
Fofana plays a lovely pass into the feet of Iheanacho, who drops deep. He feeds Harvey in a central area but his attempted pass to release Justin is poor and intercepted.
5'
Fofana, only five minute into his Premier League debut, is going to be fine to continue, as Schmeichel takes the free-kick.
4'
Fofana is down holding his face after a collision with Watkins, who may have caught the Leicester defender with his arm.
3'
The first decent attack of the match comes from Leicester. Watkins goes down but play is allowed to continue. Tielemans switches it to Castagne on the overlap but his cross is poor and Villa survive.
2'
How will Leicester cope without Jamie Vardy tonight? Iheanacho has six goals in six games against Villa, so he's a decent replacement.
1'
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Kick-off! The players take the knee and then Aston Villa get us underway!
19:10
FIVE minutes until kick-off at the King Power Stadium! It's Leicester versus Aston Villa in the Premier League. It's LIVE and it's NEXT!
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19:05
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Pre-match stat: None of Leicester's last eight Premier League matches have been drawn, with the Foxes winning four and losing four. They've shipped at least twice in six of those eight games (16 goals in total), keeping a clean sheet in the other two.
19:00
A place in second is up for grabs for both of these clubs, who are third and fourth respectively with nine points each. The winner tonight, if there is one, would move to within a point of early pacesetters Everton.
18:50
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Pre-match stat: Leicester have won four of their last five Premier League meetings with Aston Villa, drawing the other. The Foxes had won just two of their previous 12 against them in the competition (D6 L4).
18:45
Brendan Rodgers: "We’ve started the season very well, winning three out of four games. The performance level in the first three games was very high in different types of games. Different performances were needed and we were very good in the attacking side and, defensively, we’ve got areas that we can work on, but in the main, we’ve been very good."
18:40
Aston Villa suffered a 4-0 defeat to Leicester back in March, just before football was suspended. That was a "watershed moment" claims Smith, who guided his side to safety. "It was just the way we felt sorry for ourselves in the last 15 minutes (at Leicester) and conceded a couple more goals, but it turned out to be a watershed moment,” said Smith. "We went into lockdown and certainly provided a memorable return to form after that.”
18:30
Smith keeps faith in the side that mauled Liverpool, which is no surprise. That means even Jack Grealish gets a game!
18:25
Brendan Rodgers makes three changes to the side that lost to West Ham. Wesley Fofana starts for the first time as he replaces the injured Caglar Soyuncu at centre-back. Jamie Vardy is also injured and he is replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho. Daniel Amartey makes way for Dennis Praet.
18:20
Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Castagne, Fofana, Evans, Justin, Mendy, Tielemans, Barnes, Praet, Perez, Iheanacho.. subs: Ward, Morgan, Under, Choudhury, Albrighton, Maddison, Slimani. /// Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Targett, Luiz, McGinn, Barkley, Grealish, Trezeguet, Watkins.. subs: Steer, Engels, El Mohamady, El Ghzai, Hourihane, Nakamba, Traore.