Can a sinking, spluttering Leicester come for air and get a result against Sevilla, at 7.45pm on BT Sport 2?

One can’t emphasis enough just how sharp the Foxes’ fall from grace has been this season – they’ve gone from CEO to stock-room, and may well soon be fired. If the start of 2016/17 was, to put it politely, a disappointment, then the New Year has been an absolute horrorshow. Since their 0-0 draw against Middlesbrough on January 2nd Leicester have lost 5 league games on the trot without scoring a single goal, and now sit just 1 point above the relegation zone. Their fortunes are reflected in just how useless Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez have been; it is hard to image either player heading into a game with Super Mega PGM spreads quite as limp as 10-14 and 8-11 respectively last season.



Leicester’s collapse most recently extended to the FA Cup; after being forced to a replay in the 4th round by Derby, the Foxes then travelled to the Den to take on Millwall. And despite the Lions playing with 10 men for nearly an entire half Leicester couldn’t get a goal, only to be gazumped in the 90th minute by a winner from Shaun Cummings.

Even the Champions League might not provide the solace it did in the back-end of 2016. While the group stages were going on Leicester weren’t exactly doing well domestically, but at least they weren’t facing a relegation battle. They managed to top Group G, and didn’t concede a goal in their first 5 games. Yet their final fixture, one that admittedly didn’t matter, showed a sign of what was to come – Leicester went to Porto, a side they had beaten at the King Power Stadium, and got an absolute pasting, losing 5-0.

And the thing is Sevilla are arguably a better side than Porto. They won the Europa League last year for a record 5th time (and 3rd season in a row), sit in 3rd in La Liga, managed to beat Real Madrid back in January and have lost just twice in their last 16 home games (to Barcelona and Juventus). To put it mildly, the Foxes are the underdogs and though they tend to perform best in that situation this might be a step too far, with Spreadex offering a Sevilla/Leicester Goal Supremacy spread of 1.4-1.6 alongside a Total Goals spread of 2.85-3.05.

Wednesday’s other game sees Juventus travel to Porto at 7.45pm on BT Sport 3. As is to be expected Juve sit quite comfortably at the top of Serie A, with a 7 point gap between them and Roma. Their record is pretty ridiculous – 21 wins and 4 losses in the league, 4 wins and 2 draws in the Champions League (where they topped Group H ahead of Sevilla), and a semi-final appointment against Napoli in the Coppa Italia after beating Atalanta and AC Milan. They’ve also got a few choice cuts up front, namely Gonzalo Higuain (at a Super Mega PGM of 28-33), Paulo Dybala (at 19-23) and Mario Mandzukic (at 10-14).



As for Porto, they won’t be pleased at finishing 2nd to English upstarts Leicester, even if they did given them a drubbing in their final game. Nuno’s side also will feel a bit frustrated domestically; despite losing just once in the Primeira Liga, all the way back in August, they are still in 2nd place behind Benfica, trailing by a point. Their Italian visitors just about have the advantage on Wednesday evening, with Spreadex offering a Juventus/Porto (h) Goal Supremacy spread of 0.05-0.25 alongside a Total Goals spread of 2-2.2.