Arsenal 4-3 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Friday 11 August 2017

Result

Arsenal 4-3 Leicester City

Premier League · Friday 11 August 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Arsenal 4-3 Leicester City: match report

Arsenal beat Leicester City 4-3 in the Premier League on Friday 11 August 2017. It was 2-2 at half-time.

Alexandre Lacazette opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Arsenal's goals came from Alexandre Lacazette (2'), Danny Welbeck (45+2'), Aaron Ramsey (83') and Olivier Giroud (85'). Leicester City scored through Shinji Okazaki (5'), Jamie Vardy (29') and Jamie Vardy (56').

Discipline: Arsenal received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.

Arsenal went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Leicester City 9th with 47.

Arsenal lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Leicester City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain of Arsenal (8.8), ahead of Granit Xhaka (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 0 for Leicester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Alexandre LacazetteArsenal · 1-0
  • 5'Goal · Shinji OkazakiLeicester City · 1-1
  • 29'Goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 1-2
  • 45+2'Goal · Danny WelbeckArsenal · 2-2
  • 56'Goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 2-3
  • 83'Goal · Aaron RamseyArsenal · 3-3
  • 85'Goal · Olivier GiroudArsenal · 4-3
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Wes MorganLeicester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 7, draws 3, Leicester City 0.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (3-4-2-1)

Petr Čech, Rob Holding, Nacho Monreal, Sead Kolasinac, Héctor Bellerín, Mohamed Elneny, Granit Xhaka, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mesut Özil, Danny Welbeck, Alexandre Lacazette

Leicester City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Matty James, Wilfred Ndidi, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Jamie Vardy