Burnley 1-1 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 3 March 2021

Result

Burnley 1-1 Leicester City

Premier League · Wednesday 3 March 2021, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Burnley 1-1 Leicester City: match report

Burnley drew with Leicester City 1-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 3 March 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.

M. Vydra opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Burnley's goal came from M. Vydra (4'). Leicester City scored through Kelechi Iheanacho (34').

Discipline: Burnley received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Burnley were 15th on 28 points from 26 and Leicester City 3rd on 49 points from 26. Burnley went on to finish that season 17th with 39 points, and Leicester City 5th with 66.

Burnley lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Kasper Schmeichel of Leicester City (8.2), ahead of Matthew Lowton (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · M. VydraBurnley · 1-0
  • 34'Goal · Kelechi IheanachoLeicester City · 1-1
  • 79'Yellow card · W. FofanaLeicester City
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Burnley line-up (4-4-2)

Nick Pope, Matthew Lowton, James Tarkowski, Ben Mee, Charlie Taylor, Josh Brownhill, Ashley Westwood, Jack Cork, Dwight McNeil, Matej Vydra, Chris Wood

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

Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Wilfred Ndidi, Çağlar Söyüncü, Nampalys Mendy, Ricardo Pereira, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Youri Tielemans, Timothy Castagne, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy