Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Monday 22 October 2018

Result

Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City

Premier League · Monday 22 October 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Arsenal · Leicester City · Premier League predictions

Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City: match report

Arsenal beat Leicester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Monday 22 October 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Arsenal's goals came from M. Özil (45'), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (63') and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (66'). Leicester City scored through an own goal by Héctor Bellerín (31').

Discipline: Arsenal received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Arsenal were 5th on 18 points from 8 and Leicester City 11th on 12 points from 8. Arsenal went on to finish that season 5th with 70 points, and Leicester City 9th with 52.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mesut Özil of Arsenal (9.2), ahead of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (8.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 1 for Leicester City.

Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Leicester City's L-W-W-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Yellow card · R. HoldingArsenal
  • 31'Own goal · Héctor BellerínLeicester City · 0-1
  • 35'Yellow card · Granit XhakaArsenal
  • 45'Goal · M. ÖzilArsenal · 1-1
  • 63'Goal · Pierre-Emerick AubameyangArsenal · 2-1
  • 64'Yellow card · Marc AlbrightonLeicester City
  • 65'Yellow card · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City
  • 66'Goal · Pierre-Emerick AubameyangArsenal · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 6, draws 3, Leicester City 1.

Team news

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

Bernd Leno, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Özil, Alex Iwobi, Alexandre Lacazette

Leicester City line-up (3-4-1-2)

Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Harry Maguire, Jonny Evans, Ricardo Pereira, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi, Ben Chilwell, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy