The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

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The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

Leicester City's 2020/21 Premier League season gets underway at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (2pm kick-off).

2020-09-11T14:55:00.000Z

The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

Leicester City's 2020/21 Premier League season gets underway at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (2pm kick-off).

2020-09-11T14:55:00.000Z

The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

Leicester City's 2020/21 Premier League season gets underway at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (2pm kick-off).

2020-09-11T14:55:00.000Z

The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

Leicester City's 2020/21 Premier League season gets underway at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (2pm kick-off).

2020-09-11T14:55:00.000Z

The Essentials: Everything You Need To Know About Sunday's Albion Fixture

Leicester City's 2020/21 Premier League season gets underway at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (2pm kick-off).

2020-09-11T14:55:00.000Z

The Foxes - in their seventh consecutive campaign in English football's top flight - take on Slaven Bilić's Baggies - back in the top tier after two seasons in the Sky Bet Championship.

Ahead of the new season's curtain-raiser at the Hawthorns, which will be staged behind closed doors due to COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, here's what you need to know...

How can I watch the game?

City's season opener will be broadcast on TV stations around the world, including on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, with fans currently unable to attend in person.

UK-based members of the Blue Army can choose between artificial stadium atmosphere on Sky Sports Main Event, or ambient noise, on Sky Sports Premier League from 1pm.

Elsewhere in the world, you can follow the Foxes in action using the TV stations detailed below...

Country

Channel

Time

Belgium

Play Sports & Voo Sports

3pm

Brazil

ESPN

10am

Canada

DAZN

8am

Denmark

Zee

3pm

Egypt

beIN Sports

3pm

France

Canal + & RMC Sport

2pm

Germany

Sky Sports

3pm

Hong Kong

NOW

10pm

India

Star Sports & Disney+ Hotstar

6:30pm

Ireland

Sky Sports

2pm

Italy

Sky Sports

3pm

Jamaica

RUSH

8am

Japan

DAZN

10pm

Mexico

Sky Sports

8am

Netherlands

Ziggo

3pm

New Zealand

Spark Sport

1am (Monday)

South Africa

Super Sport

3pm

Spain

DAZN

3pm

Thailand

True Sport

8pm

United States

NBC SN

9am

If you can't see your country of residence listed above, please click HERE to view the Premier League's comprehensive broadcast schedules.

Who's starring on LCFC TV?

Three Leicester City legends are scheduled to appear across four hours of broadcasting on the Club's official online TV station, LCFC TV.

From 12:30pm on Sunday, Tony Cottee and Gerry Taggart will provide their expert opinion for 90 minutes of previews, including contributions from several other guests.

During the match itself, you can either chose to share your matchday with Cottee and Taggart, watching along live, or you can listen to 2000 League Cup hero Matt Elliott on live commentary.

The iconic former Foxes captain will be joined by commentator James Fielden from 1:50pm in the Hawthorns pressbox to talk you through the action minute-by-minute from West Bromwich.

What about Fantasy Premier League?

If you're one of the millions of players of Fantasy Premier League, you have until 11am on Saturday morning to put the finishing touches to your team.

That's just 90 minutes ahead of kick-off in the Premier League's official 2020/21 curtain-raiser between Fulham and Arsenal at Craven Cottage (12:30pm kick-off).

Who was the highest-scoring FPL forward of 2019/20? Jamie Vardy.

What's the officiating team on Sunday?

Referee Anthony Taylor will oversee matters at the Hawthorns, assisted by Gary Beswick and Adam Nunn. Peter Bankes is fourth official, alongside VAR (video assistant referee) Stuart Attwell and assistant VAR Andy Halliday.

When does everything happen?

While we don't know your own pre-match rituals, some things about a Premier League matchday are set in stone...

Event

Time

Matchday Live begins on LCFC TV

12:30pm

Team news is confirmed on @LCFC social media

1pm

Sky Sports coverage begins*

1pm

LCFC Radio commentary starts

1:50pm

Kick-off

2pm

Full-time

3:45pm approx

Short highlights on LCFC TV

5:45pm approx

Match of the Day 2 goes live*

10:30pm

Full highlights on LCFC TV

12am (Monday)

*Only available in the United Kingdom.

Who's in contention to play?

Speaking to the national and international media on Friday, manager Brendan Rodgers revealed: "In the last few days since [Timothy Catasgne] joined, he’s fit in very well and I don’t have any hesitation to play him.

"James [Maddison] and Fuchsy (Christian Fuchs) have been training this week, so that’s good news. It’ll been brilliant to see them back on the pitch. Dan Amartey has just come back in.

"He played 45 minutes of the friendly game last weekend. It’s been nearly two years since his last game, so you always have to be careful when a player’s been out for such a long time, but he’s progressing well.

"Wes [Morgan] has rejoined the training group today. We have another 24 hours to asses them all. Ricardo [Pereira] is still a number of weeks away but he’s making good progress.

"On Filip [Benković], it shouldn't keep him out for too long, but he certainly won't be available for this weekend."

What happened last time?

City's most recent visit to West Bromwich Albion occurred two years ago, on 10 March, 2018, as the visitors left the Hawthorns with a fourth successive win over the Baggies.

Jamie Vardy continued his hot-streak in the West Midlands to equalise for Leicester following Salomón Rondón's opener for Albion, before City took control.

Riyad Mahrez put Claude Puel's men in front after the hour-mark, before Kelechi Iheanacho and Vicente Iborra also found the net for the Foxes in a 4-1 triumph.

When can I catch match highlights?

Just two hours after full-time in the West Midlands, 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 BST unless stated otherwise.

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