West Brom head coach Carlos Corberan insisted he was “utterly centered” on his job on the Hawthorns amid hyperlinks to the vacant Leicester Metropolis supervisor function.
The Foxes parted firm with Steve Cooper on Sunday following their 2-1 defeat to Chelsea, leaving them sixteenth within the Premier League desk after 12 video games of the season.
A number of names have been linked with taking the reins on the King Energy Stadium, together with Graham Potter, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Gareth Southgate and Corberan.
However following West Brom’s stalemate with Sunderland on Tuesday, the Baggies’ eighth draw of their final 9 Championship video games, Corberan distanced himself from taking over the job.
“I can solely say how centered I’m at West Bromwich, how proud I really feel to be the coach of this superb membership,” Corberan mentioned.
“I perceive that soccer at all times has hypothesis round, however I didn’t even know that Leicester’s coach was sacked, for instance, till final night time. There’s a lot hypothesis that may seem out of my management.
“I’m utterly centered in my work, my membership, to get higher kind, to offer followers higher outcomes and hopefully our followers don’t really feel any sort of lack of respect as a result of there are at all times issues within the media we can’t management.”
We now have parted firm with Steve Cooper, who leaves his place as First Group Supervisor with rapid impact.
— Leicester Metropolis (@LCFC) November 24, 2024
Brentford, in the meantime, have been in a position to come away with some extent at Goodison Park regardless of spending the whole lot of the second half with a person much less of their goalless draw with Everton.
Christian Norgaard was despatched off within the forty first minute following a problem on Jordan Pickford whereas trying to attain within the six-yard field, with VAR recommending on-field referee Chris Kavanagh to assessment the incident on the pitch-side display screen, leading to his dismissal.
The Bees have since received the enchantment towards a possible three-match ban for the Danish worldwide, however head coach Thomas Frank was happy that his aspect have been in a position to battle towards adversity to assert a primary clear sheet of the marketing campaign.
“It was robust, it wasn’t simple, the boys dug in,” he said. “We began off very well, taking part in some good soccer. We had that robust second half, it was a slog, however we did effectively with it.”
“[Christian] Norgaard was gutted at half-time, we all know how a lot he does for us, in order that second half was for him, for the whole lot he does.
“To get that first clear sheet is nice, that’s been irritating me! 95 per cent of video games we’ve been defending effectively; that 5 per cent we’ve conceded scrappy targets. However we deserved that.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Brentford – Yoane Wissa
Wissa has been concerned in 9 targets in his final 5 Premier League residence video games for Brentford (seven targets, two assists), scoring in every of these 5 video games.
Group-mate Bryan Mbeumo, in the meantime, has both scored or assisted in his final six on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium (seven targets, one help).
Leicester – Jamie Vardy
Vardy has scored 4 targets from 5 pictures heading in the right direction within the Premier League this season, the joint-best shot heading in the right direction conversion of any participant with 5 or extra makes an attempt (80%).
In the meantime, the perfect conversion charge of any participant with 10+ pictures heading in the right direction is Brentford’s Wissa (70% – 7/10), so the sport might be received or misplaced within the ahead areas.
Taking up the Bees #BRELEI pic.twitter.com/JBunGS79db
— Leicester Metropolis (@LCFC) November 27, 2024
MATCH PREDICTION: BRENTFORD WIN
Whereas Brentford are favoured by Opta’s data-led simulations, they’ve received none of their 4 Premier League conferences with Leicester (D2 L2), solely dealing with Newcastle (six) extra typically within the competitors with out ever profitable.
Nevertheless, the Bees have received extra residence factors (16) and scored extra residence targets (18) than another aspect within the Premier League this season. They’ve received 5 of their six on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium and wish to win 4 in a row at residence for the primary time ever within the Premier League.
Brentford’s final three residence video games have seen them win 5-3 towards Wolves, 4-3 towards Ipswich and 3-2 towards Bournemouth. The Bees final scored three or extra targets in 4 consecutive residence league video games between April and Might 1984, whereas the final staff to win 4 straight top-flight residence video games whereas conceding 2+ targets every time have been Leicester in October 1964.
Leicester are unbeaten of their final eight league video games towards Brentford (W5 D3), since a 3-2 residence loss within the second tier in March 1953.
However they’ve received simply one among their final 13 Premier League away video games towards London sides (D3 L9), delivery two or extra targets on every of their final 5 top-flight visits to the capital (D1 L4).
Regardless of having simply two wins from their 12 league video games this season, no aspect has scored in additional completely different Premier League video games up to now this time period than Leicester (11). Their solely failure to attain was of their final away match towards Manchester United (0-3).
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Brentford – 59.5%
Draw – 21.2%
Leicester – 19.3%
