West Brom head coach Carlos Corberan insisted he was “fully targeted” on his job on the Hawthorns amid hyperlinks to the vacant Leicester Metropolis supervisor position.
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 targeted I’m at West Bromwich, how proud I really feel to be the coach of this wonderful membership,” Corberan stated.
“I perceive that soccer all the time has hypothesis round, however I didn’t even know that Leicester’s coach was sacked, for instance, till final evening. There may be a lot hypothesis that may seem out of my management.
“I’m fully targeted in my work, my membership, to get higher kind, to present followers higher outcomes and hopefully our followers don’t really feel any kind of lack of respect as a result of there are all the time issues within the media we can not management.”
We now have parted firm with Steve Cooper, who leaves his place as First Group Supervisor with quick impact.
— Leicester Metropolis (@LCFC) November 24, 2024
Brentford, in the meantime, had been in a position to come away with some extent at Goodison Park regardless of spending everything 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 making an attempt to attain within the six-yard field, with VAR recommending on-field referee Chris Kavanagh to evaluate the incident on the pitch-side display, leading to his dismissal.
The Bees have since received the attraction towards a possible three-match ban for the Danish worldwide, however head coach Thomas Frank was happy that his facet had been in a position to battle towards adversity to assert a primary clear sheet of the marketing campaign.
“It was powerful, it wasn’t simple, the boys dug in,” he said. “We began off rather well, taking part in some good soccer. We had that powerful second half, it was a slog, however we did nicely 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 all the pieces 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 nicely; that 5 per cent we’ve conceded scrappy objectives. However we deserved that.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Brentford – Yoane Wissa
Wissa has been concerned in 9 objectives in his final 5 Premier League house video games for Brentford (seven objectives, 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 objectives, one help).
Leicester – Jamie Vardy
Vardy has scored 4 objectives from 5 photographs 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 fee of any participant with 10+ photographs 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 usually within the competitors with out ever profitable.
Nonetheless, the Bees have received extra house factors (16) and scored extra house objectives (18) than another facet 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 house for the primary time ever within the Premier League.
Brentford’s final three house 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 objectives in 4 consecutive house league video games between April and Could 1984, whereas the final staff to win 4 straight top-flight house video games whereas conceding 2+ objectives every time had been Leicester in October 1964.
Leicester are unbeaten of their final eight league video games towards Brentford (W5 D3), since a 3-2 house loss within the second tier in March 1953.
However they’ve received simply certainly one of their final 13 Premier League away video games towards London sides (D3 L9), transport two or extra objectives 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 facet has scored in additional totally different Premier League video games thus far 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%
