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Leicester v Man City Odds: Adam Johnson scorecast provides interesting FA Cup bet

Get the latest odds for the FA Cup third round replay between Man City and Leicester on Tuesday 18th January 2011.

It will be a tale of reunions when Leicester City welcome Manchester City to the Walkers Stadium for their live FA Cup third round clash on Sunday afternoon. Leicester manager Sven Goran Eriksson hosts the club who sacked him unceremoniously in 2008 and goes head to head with his former player Roberto Mancini, who himself was once a Leicester player for a short stint. Mancini's side are odds on favourites to make it a happy return for him with Totesport offering them at odds of 8/13, while Leicester have shortened to 4/1, and the draw comes in at 14/5.

Sven has overseen something of a renaissance at Leicester in guiding them to twelfth in the Championship and they are unbeaten in their last nine league matches at home. In normal circumstances you would back the home side to produce the goods on Sunday but they are coming up against a Man City team who have the best away record in the Premier League. Eriksson will much to prove against his former employees but faces a tough task as Leicester have beaten Man City only once in the last ten attempts at home, and the best they might hope for is a Leicester win in the handicap betting market with +1 goals at 11/8.

Their task is made all the more difficult as they have lost loanees Roman Bednar and Curtis Davies back to their parent clubs, although Darius Vassell has scored two in his last two matches. He has taken a while to get going but Tote do offer him at tempting odds of 8/1 to score first in Sunday's FA Cup third round tie or 5/2 to score anytime. Unfortunately for Leicester they have only scored 30% of goals in the first half and led at half time in only a quarter of their fixtures, while Man City have scored first in seven of their last nine fixtures.

With those stats in mind it's worth a look at City to score first and the double result of a half time Man City win and full time Man City win is currently at odds of 6/4. It is expected that Mancini will field a strong team, although David Silva and Mario Balotelli are doubts. They drew 0-0 against Arsenal in a horribly defensive display in mid-week but more adventure will be expected on Sunday and Adam Johnson is expected to replace the poor Jo. Johnson looks good value to score first at odds of 13/2 on Sunday with Totesport.com.

Man City have the joint most clean sheets in the Premier League meanwhile and a Man City clean sheet is 21/20. Man City have won their last five against Leicester City, are unbeaten away from home in six and have tasted defeat in only one of their last twelve matches so a comfortable City win could be the way to go. The 2-0 on Sunday looks good at odds of 11/2 in what would represent a professional display from Mancini's men and the win to nil is 13/10. Furthermore the scorecast of Adam Johnson to score first and City to win 2-0 is tempting odds of 28/1 with Totesport.

Leicester v Man City Form

Check the season's statistics for both Leicester and Man City plus the odds ahead of Sunday's match.

Leicester Stats | Man City Stats

Leicester v Man City Tips

Tip #1: Scorecast of Adam Johnson to score first and Man City to win 2-0 @ 28/1 with Totesport.com
Tip #2: Man City to win 2-0 @ 11/2 with Totesport.com
Tip #3: Darius Vassell to score anytime @ 5/2 with Totesport.com

Leicester v Man City Odds

Match Betting

4/1 Leicester
14/5 Draw
8/13 Man City

Correct Score Odds

11/2 Man City 1-0
11/2 Man City 2-0
7/1 Man City 2-1
11/1 Draw 0-0
6/1 Draw 1-1
14/1 Draw 2-2
9/1 Leicester
25/1 Leicester
16/1 Leicester 2-1

First Goalscorer Odds

5/2 Carlos Tevez
7/2 Mario Balotelli
9/2 Jo
5/1 Emmanuel Adebayor
5/1 Roque Santa Cruz
6/1 David Silva
13/2 Adam Johnson
8/1 Darius Vassell
9/1 Yaya Toure
9/1 Paul Gallagher
9/1 Martyn Waghorn

Odds supplied by Totesport.com, plus over 100 other markets on this match and all FA Cup Third Round fixtures, including live betting in-running.

Posted: Friday, 7th January 2011
Author: Chris James
Tags: fa cup, man city, leicester, sven goran eriksson, totesport,

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