Home and Away: Foxes in the hunt for final play-off position

 

Jonno Turner looks into action in the English Championship and Dutch Eerste Divisie as he aims to end the week with a bang...

 

We're off to the East Midlands for our penultimate pick of the week - as Leicester City welcome Watford to the King Power Stadium, in what is a must win game for the hosts.

 

Nigel Pearson's Foxes side, who have slipped out of the play-off picture, go into this game sitting seventh in the table - and with just one home outing left this campaign, this clash is all the more important for the Blues.

 

A 3-2 defeat of fellow top six hopefuls Bolton in their last encounter on their own patch will have given the hosts confidence, and the difference between those two sides is now just one point, with half a dozen left the play for.

 

And Pearson has confirmed that he has a full squad to choose from ahead of this game, with six players due to return to the fold - knowing that a draw will return his side to the top six, but a win would move them into fifth - piling the pressure on those above them who don't play until tomorrow afternoon.

 

Watford travel up the M1 sitting pretty in third place - and the Hornets look due for a fairly comfortable finish, with a four point gap between themselves and second/fourth place.

 

A win would keep Gianfranco Zola's sides automatic promotion dreams alive - but just one win from their last five away from Vicarage Road suggests that the visitors have been suffering travel sickness of late.

 

The Yellows do have some injury problems, with Nyron Nosworthy, Tommie Hoban, Neuton and Adam Thompson all likely to miss out, as well as long term absentees Fitz Hall and John Eustace.

 

And just one clean sheet from their last five on the road indicates that the hosts may be in the stronger position ahead of this clash.

 

Bet 1: Leicester City (HOME) @ 2.08

 

Switching our attentions to the Netherlands now - and the Eerste Divisie, as in-form Den Bosch travel to Eindhoven looking to make it a whopping nine games unbeaten on the road.

 

Jan Poortvliet's side go into this clash sitting 11th in the second tier, but their recent results belie that status, and a 5-1 thrashing of Almere City in their last encounter away from de Vliert will have boosted confidence in s'Hertogenbosch.

 

Eindhoven line up for the game in miserable form - and have won just one of their last eight on their own patch, and that leaves them rock bottom of the division, with just 18 points from 29 outings.

 

And home boss Pascal Maas has some players missing tonight, with Furkan Alakmak, Jason Bourdouxhe, Timothy Durwael, Anthony van den Hurk and Josemar Makiavala absent through injury, and veteran Theo Lucius also unavailable.

 

The last time these two sides met, in February, Den Bosch ran out 3-1 winners - and I fancy them to take maximum points here, too.

 

Bet 2: Den Bosch (AWAY) @ 1.61

 

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