Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 15 April 2017
Result
Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 15 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester City: match report
Crystal Palace drew with Leicester City 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 April 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Robert Huth opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Yohan Cabaye (54') and Christian Benteke (70'). Leicester City scored through Robert Huth (6') and Jamie Vardy (52').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 16th on 34 points from 31 and Leicester City 11th on 36 points from 31. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Leicester City 12th with 44.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Christian Benteke of Crystal Palace (8.0), ahead of Robert Huth (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 0 draws and 3 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Robert Huth
- 34'Yellow card · Danny Simpson
- 52'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 54'Goal · Yohan Cabaye
- 63'Yellow card · Andy King
- 70'Goal · Christian Benteke
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Martin Kelly, Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Luka Milivojevic, Yohan Cabaye, Andros Townsend, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Yohan Benalouane, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Wilfred Ndidi, Andy King, Marc Albrighton, Leonardo Ulloa, Jamie Vardy