Crystal Palace 5-0 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 28 April 2018
Result
Crystal Palace 5-0 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 28 April 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Crystal Palace 5-0 Leicester City: match report
Crystal Palace beat Leicester City 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 April 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Wilfried Zaha opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Wilfried Zaha (17'), James McArthur (38'), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (81'), Patrick van Aanholt (84') and Christian Benteke (90', penalty). Leicester City did not score.
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 14th on 35 points from 35 and Leicester City 9th on 44 points from 34. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and Leicester City 9th with 47.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Wilfried Zaha of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Mamadou Sakho (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 5 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 38'Goal · James McArthur
- 53'Yellow card · Yohan Cabaye
- 56'Red card · Marc Albrighton
- 77'Yellow card · Adrien Silva
- 81'Goal · Ruben Loftus-Cheek
- 84'Goal · Patrick van Aanholt
- 90'Penalty goal · Christian Benteke
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, James McArthur, Luka Milivojevic, Yohan Cabaye, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Andros Townsend, Wilfried Zaha
Leicester City line-up (4-4-1-1)
Ben Hamer, Marc Albrighton, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Riyad Mahrez, Wilfred Ndidi, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Demarai Gray, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy