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The Essentials: Your Guide To Sunday's Clash With Man City

Leicester City are the visitors to Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday (4:30pm kick-off).
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Ahead of the Foxes' third Premier League outing of a 2020/21 campaign which has so far yielded two wins in two, LCFC.com provides details on everything you need to know..

How can I watch the game?

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Etihad Stadium
Etihad Stadium

Leicester have won at Etihad Stadium twice - in 2003 and 2016.

Sunday's clash with Man City will be available to view on Sky Sports Main Event (generated stadium noise) and Sky Sports Premier League (ambient noise) from 4pm in the UK on Sunday.

Elsewhere in the world, you can follow the Foxes in action using the TV stations detailed below...

Country Channel Time
Australia Optus Sport 1:30am (Monday)
Belgium Play Sports & Voo Sports 5:30pm
Brazil ESPN 12:30pm
Canada DAZN 10:30am
China Tescent Sports 11:30pm
Denmark Xee 5:30pm
Egypt beIN Sports 5:30pm
France Canal+ Sport & RMC Sport 5:30pm
Germany Sky Sports 5:30pm
Hong Kong NOW 12:30am (Monday)
India  Disney+ Hotstar & Star Sports 9pm
Italy Sky Sports 5:30pm
Japan DAZN 12:30am (Monday)
Mexico Sky Sports 10:30am
Netherlands Ziggo 5:30pm
New Zealand Spark Sports 4:30am (Monday)
Portugal Sport TV 4:30pm
South Africa Super Sport 5:30pm
Thailand truevisions 10:30pm
United States NBC SN & Telemundo 11:30am


If you can't see your country of residence listed above, please click HERE to view the Premier League's comprehensive broadcast schedules.

Who's starring on LCFC TV?

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Dennis Praet
Dennis Praet

LCFC TV and LCFC Radio will provide over four hours of coverage from the Etihad Stadium encounter.

Available completely free of charge, Matchday Live will begin at 3pm on Sunday with Dan Bates set to be joined by Matt Elliott and Iwan Roberts for 90 minutes of previews and analysis.

All pre and post-match programme - continuing for 30 minutes at full-time - will be available on @LCFC on FacebookTwitter and YouTube, while in-play commentary can be accessed on LCFC.com.

Gerry Taggart is due to appear alongside John Dunn over on LCFC Radio's live in-play coverage, which is free to all Digital Members (free sign-up) on the Club's official website from approximately 4:20pm.

What about Fantasy Premier League?

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Timothy Castagne
Timothy Castagne

Belgium international Timothy Castagne is pictured in action for the Foxes for the first time.

FPL managers have until 11am on Saturday morning to make changes to their team ahead of Gameweek 3, with Brighton & Hove Albion set to host Manchester United at 12:30pm.

What's the officiating team on Sunday?

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Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver

Michael Oliver is the man in the middle in Falmer this weekend.

Michael Oliver is the referee at Etihad Stadium on Sunday, assisted by Stuart Burt and Simon Bennett. Craig Pawson will be fourth official, meanwhile, David Coote is the VAR (video assistant referee), assisted by Simon Long.

When does everything happen?

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Laura Woods, Sky Sports
Laura Woods, Sky Sports

Sky Sports' coverage begins at 5:30pm on Wednesday evening.

For the third time this Premier League season, City play on a Sunday, but the timings will be a little different...

Event Time
Matchday Live begins on LCFC TV 3pm
Team news is confirmed on @LCFC social 3:30pm
Sky Sports coverage begins* 4pm
LCFC Radio commentary begins 4:20pm
Kick-off 4:30pm
Full-time 6:15pm approx
Short highlights on LCFC TV 8:15pm approx
Match of the Day 2 goes live* 10:30pm
Full highlights on LCFC TV 12am (Monday)


*Only available in the United Kingdom.

Who's in contention to play?

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Jonny Evans
Jonny Evans

Evans is available for selection at the weekend against Manchester City.

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers said: "[Jonny Evans is] fine. He’s trained this last numbers of days, so he’s available. He’s had a good couple of weeks and I think, for most players, they’re not going to be 100 per cent. I’d still have Jonny Evans at 80 per cent because he’s such a quality player."

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said: "Well, the situation we have right now, we have just 13 players available in the first team. We need the academy, not just for the training sessions. They can be selected during the games."

What happened last time?

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Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

Leicester initially took the lead in their last visit to Manchester City.

Despite taking the lead at Etihad Stadium, the Foxes suffered a 3-1 defeat to Man City on their last visit to Etihad Stadium on Saturday 21 December, 2019.

Jamie Vardy's stylish lob of Ederson in the first half put Leicester in front, but goals from Riyad Mahrez - now at Man City - İlkay Gündoğan and Gabriel Jesus consigned the visitors to a rare defeat in 2019.

"They were very, very good," Brendan Rodgers said at full-time. "The big teams can play to that level. Tonight showed everybody how well this team have done. We will learn good lessons from this game."

When can I catch match highlights?

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Timothy Castagne, Dennis Praet & Youri Tielemans
Timothy Castagne, Dennis Praet & Youri Tielemans

City's three senior Belgium internationals have been in fine form in recent weeks.

Just two hours after full-time in Manchester, you can access a two-minute highlights package on LCFC TV - available for free to Digital Members on the Club's official website (free sign-up).

Short clips will also be available on Leicester City's official social media channels, while a full highlights video will be published on LCFC.com at midnight following the fixture.

Please note that in the interests of safety, Leicester City’s fixtures will continue to be played behind closed doors. To ensure matches can still go ahead and to help control the spread of COVID-19, the Football Club kindly asks its supporters to continue to follow their team from home and not to gather at any stadia.

All times BST unless stated otherwise.

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