Chelsea 2-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2022
Result
Chelsea 2-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Chelsea 2-1 Leicester City: match report
Chelsea beat Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 August 2022. The half-time score was 0-0.
Raheem Sterling opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Chelsea's goals came from Raheem Sterling (47') and Raheem Sterling (63'). Leicester City scored through Harvey Barnes (66').
Discipline: Chelsea received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 12th on 4 points from 3 and Leicester City 19th on 1 point from 3. Chelsea went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Leicester City 18th with 34.
Chelsea lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Youri Tielemans of Leicester City (8.9), ahead of Reece James (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Chelsea wins, 5 draws and 2 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 22'Yellow card · Conor Gallagher
- 28'Second yellow · Conor Gallagher
- 31'Yellow card · Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall
- 40'Yellow card · Dennis Praet
- 47'Goal · Raheem Sterling
- 63'Goal · Raheem Sterling
- 66'Goal · Harvey Barnes
- 90+3'Yellow card · Kai Havertz
Head-to-head
Team news
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Chelsea line-up (4-4-2)
Edouard Mendy, Reece James, Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Marc Cucurella, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Conor Gallagher, Jorginho, Mason Mount, Kai Havertz, Raheem Sterling
Leicester City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Danny Ward, Timothy Castagne, Daniel Amartey, Jonny Evans, James Justin, Boubakary Soumaré, Dennis Praet, Youri Tielemans, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy