Leicestershire

Leicester City will seek an escape from the bottom three when they visit promotion-chasing Watford on Saturday (15:00 GMT).

The Foxes took the lead against Queens Park Rangers on the weekend but ultimately suffered a 3-1 defeat to leave them two points adrift of safety.

But the Hornets will be a tough customer, hunting down a place in the play-offs against stiff competition and hot off a big win against fellow promotion-hopefuls Wrexham.

• Watford will be looking to do the league double over Leicester for the first time since 2012-13, after winning 2-1 in this season's reverse fixture on Boxing Day.

• Leicester have won their last two away league games against Watford (5-1 in 2022 and 2-1 in 2024), and have never previously won three in succession away to the Hornets.

• Watford have only won one of their last seven Saturday matches in the Championship (D2 L4), although that was in their most recent one at Vicarage Road (2-0 v Derby last month).

• Leicester are winless in their last nine away league games (D5 L4); they last went 10 in a row without a win in the Championship between December 2004 and October 2005 (18).

• Midfielder Jordan James is now Leicester's top scorer in the Championship this season (10), while only Abdul Fatawu (16) has more goal involvements for the Foxes than the Welshman (14).

Leicester City's difficult season in the Championship continues after a disappointing 3-1 defeat by QPR at home on Saturday.

QPR came from behind to end their run of Championship defeats, with the Foxes falling deeper into the relegation zone, leaving them 23rd in the table.

EFL pundit Jobi McAnuff criticised Leicester's "absolutely shocking" defending and questioned the mentality of the players in the dressing room.

Speaking on the BBC's EFL 72+ podcast, the former Reading and Crystal Palace midfielder said there are "big questions over the players".

"Sometimes it doesn't matter who the manager is on that touchline, the responsibility lies with those players once that whistle starts, to go and do the job," he continued.

"Unfortunately on too many occasions those Leicester City players have let that club down this season.

"I've been in a team that thought they were too good to go down and got relegated. For Leicester City, you can't keep saying they've got good players individually, they're not doing it as a squad. There's no togetherness there."

As it comes up to 10 years since the Foxes won the Premier League in 2016, the side now face the prospect of relegation to League One.

They next face Watford away on Saturday, 21 March.