Manchester City v Leicester live stream, match preview, team news and kick-off time for this Premier League match

Manchester City v Leicester live stream
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Manchester City v Leicester live stream and match preview, Saturday April 15, 5.30pm BST

Manchester City v Leicester live stream and match preview

Looking for a Manchester City v Leicester live stream? We've got you covered. Manchester City v Leicester is on Sky Sports in the UK. In the UK from abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Premier League with your subscription from anywhere.

Buoyed by their midweek Champions League win over Bayern Munich, Manchester City turn their attention back to their title defence with the visit of Dean Smith’s Leicester City.

Pep Guardiola’s men earned a superb 3-0 victory over Bayern on Tuesday in the quarter-final first leg to continue a good few days after reducing the gap to Premier League leaders Arsenal to five points last weekend.

The mood at Leicester couldn’t be much more different; the Foxes appointed Smith this week to try and turn around a nine-match winless run in all competitions and lead them out of the relegation zone.

City earned a 1-0 win at the King Power in the first meeting of the season in October, with Kevin De Bruyne scoring the decisive goal.

Kick-off is at 5.30pm BST. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.

Team news

Pep Guardiola has named the following Manchester City starting 11: (3-2-4-1) Ederson; Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte; John Stones, Rodri; Riyad Mahrez, Kevin De Bruyne (captain), Bernardo Silva, Jack Grealish; Erling Haaland

Dean Smith has selected the following Leicester starting 11: (3-5-1-1) Daniel Iversen; Harry Souttar, Caglar Soyuncu, Wout Faes; Timothy Castagne, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, Victor Kristiansen; James Maddison; Jamie Vardy

Form

Manchester City: WWWWW

Leicester: LLLDL

Referee

Darren England is the referee for Manchester City v Leicester. 

Stadium

Manchester City v Leicester will be played at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester. 

Kick-off and channel

Manchester City v Leicester is on Sky Sports Main Events and Sky Sports Premier League in the UK. It kicks off at 5.30pm BST.  

VPN guide

Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country

If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.

There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:

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International Premier League TV rights

• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23. 
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.

Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.