Another wor of attrition

BET that Steve Bruce isn’t backward about not coming forward at Leicester today.

Newcastle’s boss needs to blunt the Foxes’ counter-attacking edge as his first priority.

Happily, goal-lite slogs are where his boys shine.

And as they showed at Tottenham, with a nine-man defence you only need to score once to make ‘Bruceball’ a devastating strategy.

The UNDER 2.5 goals at 8/11 is fairest of the teeny prices (4.30pm).

But the more needy of us could do worse than hope an answer lies in Andy Carroll’s head.

Biffa’s noggin is a powerful weapon, but has suffered a bit down the years from being attached to the rest of him.

An unhappy marriage of cannon and carriage, like strapping a bazooka to a labradoodle.

Still, Carroll’s aerial strengths are an interesting test of Leicester’s relative weaknesses in that area.

If he starts, punt Carroll (above) ‘first scorer’ at 12/1 (Bet365). Last week: Winner at 13/8