The day is coming for Leicester City. The team needs just eight points between what it gets and what Tottenham doesn't get to clinch its first ever Premier League title. The duel at home against Swansea City should be easy, but with pressure mounting on the Foxes, nothing is a given.
Soccer Odds at BookMaker.eu
Leicester City -136
Swansea City +429
Draw +264
Over/Under 2.5 (under -141)
ODDS ANALYSIS
Goals could be tough to come by in this duel, and the total shows just that in this one. Yes, the number to beat is the same 2.5 as is the case in just about every EPL game, but the vig on the under at -141 suggests that this total should be more like a flat 2.
The Foxes aren't getting the respect they perhaps deserve right now as the table toppers, but there's no doubting the fact that they aren't the same team without Jamie Vardy in the fold. Vardy has been suspended for this match after taking a red card last week, and now the team is going to be stuck without him for this critical duel.
Now all of a sudden, Leicester City is only -136 on the moneyline in a match which it really should be winning if it wants to hold off Tottenham for the EPL championship.
KEY INJURIES
The good news for Claudio Ranieri is that his team is healthy. There isn't a single player missing due to injury. That said, Vardy has been banned for this match, and Nathan Dyer won't be allowed to partake in this one either since he's property of the Swans and is only at King Power Stadium due to being loaned there.
Swansea has a full roster at its disposal as well for this match.
LIVE BETTING
Leicester City has been playing with fire all season long, and it's just barely been managing to get by with results. The match against West Ham absolutely should've been lost if not for a penalty called in the last moments of play to bail it out for a point. That did end the Foxes' five-match winning streak, but it also extended their streak of matches without a loss to eight straight.
The Swans have been all over the place. They were beaten last week by surging Newcastle by a disgusting 3-0 score line, but the match before, they beat Chelsea at home. Just since the beginning of March, Swansea City has itself a win on the road against Arsenal and that victory over Chelsea, but it also has the loss to Newcastle and a loss to Bournemouth.
QUICK PICK
Swansea City doesn't really have much of anything left to play for this season, but this is now the biggest match of the year. If the Swans can get a result on the road at King Power, they'll have validated some of their late-season struggles. We know this isn't beyond them either, especially with Vardy out of the fold.
If the Swans can get some good play out of Kyle Naughton and Federico Fernandez at the back, they could keep Leicester City off the board in this one.
Though we don't think the leaders are going to end up coughing up all three points in this duel, but the oddsmakers might be onto something with the way they're lined. We could go 90 without a single goal on Sunday.
Barclays Premier League Odds: Leicester City 0, Swansea City 0
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