The Essentials: City's Home Clash With Brighton

First Team
13 Dec 2020
4 Minutes
Brighton & Hove Albion are the visitors to King Power Stadium on Sunday as Leicester City's exciting 2020/21 Premier League season continues (7:15pm kick-off).

Ahead of City's 12th league outing, three days after they concluded their UEFA Europa League group stage campaign, LCFC.com provides everything you need to know...

How can I watch the game?

Supporters in the United Kingdom can follow Sunday's fixture on Amazon Prime Video.

Three of Leicester City’s Premier League fixtures have been selected for live broadcast on Amazon Prime Video this month, starting with this Sunday’s home encounter with Brighton.

Foxes fans in the United Kingdom can take advantage of Amazon Prime’s 30-day free trial to watch all three of City’s Prime fixtures. Simply sign-up HERE.

For supporters based outside of the UK, meanwhile, the following TV stations will also be broadcasting the fixture...

Country Channel Time
Australia Optus Sport 6:15am (Monday)
Belgium Play Sports & Voo Sports 8:15pm
Brazil DAZN 4:15pm
Canada DAZN 2:15pm
China Tencent Sports 3:15am (Monday)
Denmark TV3 Max 8:15pm
Egypt beIN Sports 9:15pm
Germany Sky Sports 8:15pm
Hong Kong NOW 3:15am (Monday)
India Star Sports & Disney+ Hotstar 12:45am (Monday)
Italy Sky Sports 8:15pm
Japan DAZN 4:15am (Monday)
Mexico Sky Sports 1:15pm
Portugal Sport TV 7:15pm
South Africa Super Sport 9:15pm
Spain DAZN 8:15pm
Thailand true visions 2:15am (Monday)
United States peacock 2:15pm


Can't see your country of residence listed above? Click HERE to see the Premier League's full broadcast schedules.

Who's starring on LCFC TV?

City fans can, as ever, tune into live and free coverage on LCFC TV and LCFC Radio.

From 5:45pm on Sunday, the four-hour Matchday Live show goes live, with Gerry Taggart and Dean Hammond joining Dan Bates for one-and-a-half hours of previews and opinion, live on LCFC TV and @LCFC social media.

Then, from approximately 7:05pm, live LCFC Radio commentary is also provided, via the dedicated LCFC.com Match Centre, with commentator James Fielden and former City skipper Matt Elliott on duty.

What's the officiating team on Sunday?

The referee on Sunday evening will be Martin Atkinson.

Martin Atkinson is the man in the middle for Sunday's clash, assisted by Adam Nunn and Sian Massey-Ellis. Peter Bankes will be the fourth official, while Jonathan Moss is the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), assisted by Dan Robathan.

When does everything happen?

Amazon Prime Video is where UK-based viewers can watch the action unfold live.

Three days after defeating AEK Athens 2-0 to win Group G in the UEFA Europa League, the Foxes return to Premier League duties - and these are your key matchday timings...

Event Time
Matchday Live begins on LCFC TV 5:45pm
Team news is confirmed on @LCFC social 6:15pm
Amazon Prime Video coverage begins* 6:30pm
LCFC Radio commentary begins 7:05pm
Kick-off 7:15pm
Full-time 9pm approx
Short highlights on LCFC TV 11pm approx
Short highlights on LCFC TV 12am (Monday)


*UK only.

Who's in contention to play?

James Maddison was nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month prize in January.

Giving an update on his squad, Brendan Rodgers revealed: "James [Maddison] is fine. Like I said, we gave him a rest last night. He’s just finished training and was absolutely brilliant, so he’s fine. Timothy Castagne, again, is training very, very well. He will probably just miss out for this weekend, but we’ll see where he’s at in midweek and the following weekend, but he’s looking good. Çağs (Çağlar Söyüncü), the same. We probably just need to build him up a little bit more, but he’s not too far away. Daniel Amartey has come back into training and has trained very well. It’ll just be a process with him and when we can introduce him back into any games that we can. Ricardo [Pereira’s] probably a bit further behind, with his adductor, so you’re probably looking at a couple more weeks for him."

Brighton manager Graham Potter, meanwhile, said: "The game's going to come too soon I think for Adam [Lallana]. Apart from that, there were no fresh problems from the game. So, it’s pretty much the same squad that we that we had (against Southampton)."

What happened last time?

A brilliant save from Schmeichel to stop Brighton taking an early lead.

Kasper Schmeichel was the hero for Leicester City as the Denmark international saved a first-half penalty from Neal Maupay in a 0-0 draw between the two sides on 23 June, 2020, in the first-ever Premier League fixture to be staged behind closed doors at King Power Stadium during Project Restart.

Earlier in the season, meanwhile, Ayoze Pérez's breakaway goal and a Jamie Vardy penalty secured a 2-0 success for the Foxes at AMEX Stadium, in City's fifth consecutive win.

When can I catch match highlights?

The Foxes registered a 2-0 win over AEK Athens in the UEFA Europa League last time out.

Approximately two hours after full-time, 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 GMT unless stated otherwise.