Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2023

Result

Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester City

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester City: match report

Crystal Palace defeated Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 April 2023. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Ricardo Pereira opened the scoring in the 56th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from an own goal by Daniel Iversen (59') and Jean-Philippe Mateta (90+4'). Leicester City scored through Ricardo Pereira (56').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards; Leicester City received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 12th on 27 points from 28 and Leicester City 17th on 25 points from 27. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 45 points, and Leicester City 18th with 34.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Eberechi Eze of Crystal Palace (7.8), ahead of Daniel Iversen (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 3 draws and 4 for Leicester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Victor KristiansenLeicester City
  • 56'Goal · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City · 0-1
  • 59'Own goal · Daniel IversenCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 68'Yellow card · Harry SouttarLeicester City
  • 81'Yellow card · Eberechi EzeCrystal Palace
  • 83'Yellow card · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City
  • 88'Yellow card · Marc GuéhiCrystal Palace
  • 89'Yellow card · Wilfred NdidiLeicester City
  • 90+4'Goal · Jean-Philippe MatetaCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Jean-Philippe MatetaCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 3, draws 3, Leicester City 4.

Team news

Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)

Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, Joachim Andersen, Marc Guéhi, Tyrick Mitchell, Eberechi Eze, Cheick Doucouré, Jeffrey Schlupp, Michael Olise, Odsonne Édouard, Wilfried Zaha

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

Daniel Iversen, Timothy Castagne, Harry James Souttar, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Victor Kristiansen, Wilfred Ndidi, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Tetê, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Patson Daka