WSL preview: Albion take on Leicester City

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Bruce Talbot

2025-03-23T11:00+00:00

Albion will be aiming to maintain their unbeaten record in March at the King Power Stadium. 📷 Kyle Hemsley.

Albion will be aiming for back-to-back away wins in the WSL on Sunday when we head to the King Power Stadium to play Leicester City.

Team news

Bex Rayner and Jelena Cancovic are back in training, and head coach Dario Vidosic reported no new injury concerns at his pre-match press conference on Friday.

Dario Vidosic’s thoughts

“We had a period when we had a lot of games and injuries with players on restricted minutes but hopefully we have come through that now. That was a challenge – I prefer the challenge of players training and competing and making those tough [selection] decisions. It’s a nicer headache having more competition for places.

“We had a bad run and learned even more when it was tough. But we never lost our belief and now results and performances are starting to come back. We’re not too far away from the levels we had in the first 2-3 months.

“On Sunday we get to go to a nice stadium and play on a good pitch against a good side. Leicester are the only other team to have taken points off Chelsea as well as us. They can be very dangerous as they showed in our two games against them [earlier in the season]. In this competition there is no such thing as an easy game.”

Player to watch

Asmita Ale has contributed two assists in 12 WSL games from full back – a good return in a side who have only scored ten goals in 16 matches. No side outside the top four have conceded fewer goals (24) and Ale, who completed a permanent switch to Leicester after spending the second half of last season on loan from Spurs, has played her part. The former England youth international began her career at Aston Villa and at 18 became the first Nepalese footballer to sign a professional contract with an English club.

Stats and facts

Leicester City won three of their first four WSL meetings with Brighton {L1) but are winless in their three league games against the Seagulls since (D1 L2).

Following their 1-0 home win in the reverse fixture in November, Brighton are aiming to complete a WSL double over Leicester City for the first time.

Leicester City have won their last two WSL home games and could win three in a row in the competition for the very first time.

Brighton won this fixture 3-2 last season and will now be looking to win back-to-back Women's Super league matches In the Midlands for the first time since March/September 2021 (v Aston Villa and Birmingham).

No team has taken the lead in fewer WSL games this season than Leicester City (4), though the Foxes are unbeaten in the league this term when going ahead (W3 D1).

Brighton won 1-0 at Tottenham Hotspur on MD16 and will be aiming to win back-to-back WSL games for only the second time this season, also doing so in October 2024.

Only Tottenham Hotspur (94% - 16/17) have won a greater proportion of their total points in the Women's Super League this season against the current bottom half teams than Brighton (91% - 20/22), with all six of the Seagulls' victories in 2024-25 coming versus such opposition.

Only Manchester City {295), Arsenal (242) and Chelsea (177) have recorded more open play sequences of 10+ passes in the WSL so far this season than Brighton, who have now recorded more in 2024-25 (145) than across 2023-24 (96) and 2022-23 (38) combined.

Leicester City's Sophie Howard has made both the most clearances {119) and the most headed clearances (54) in the WSL this season, with the latter number already the most by a player in a top-flight campaign since Sophie Bradley-Auckland in 2018-19 (65 for Liverpool).

Only Beth England's goals and assists have been worth more points to her team (10) than Brighton's Fran Kirby in the WSL this season (7 points - 4 goals, 2 assists); Kirby netted her 20th winning goal in the Women's Super League last time out with only Vivianne Miedema (26) and Sam Kerr (21) scoring more winners in the competition's history.

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