Everton 4-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 9 April 2017
Result
Everton 4-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Sunday 9 April 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-2
Everton 4-2 Leicester City: match report
Everton won against Leicester City 4-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 9 April 2017. It was 3-2 at half-time.
Tom Davies opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Everton's goals came from Tom Davies (1'), Romelu Lukaku (23'), Phil Jagielka (41') and Romelu Lukaku (57'). Leicester City scored through Islam Slimani (4') and Marc Albrighton (10').
Discipline: Everton received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 7th on 51 points from 31 and Leicester City 11th on 36 points from 30. Everton went on to finish that season 7th with 61 points, and Leicester City 12th with 44.
Everton lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Phil Jagielka of Everton (8.6), level with Kevin Mirallas (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Everton wins, 5 draws and 2 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Tom Davies
- 4'Goal · Islam Slimani
- 10'Goal · Marc Albrighton
- 23'Goal · Romelu Lukaku
- 29'Yellow card · Robert Huth
- 29'Yellow card · Kevin Mirallas
- 41'Goal · Phil Jagielka
- 45'Yellow card · L. Baines
- 57'Goal · Romelu Lukaku
- 64'Yellow card · Andy King
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton line-up (4-3-3)
Joel Robles, Mason Holgate, Matthew Pennington, Phil Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Idrissa Gueye, Morgan Schneiderlin, Tom Davies, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin Mirallas
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Yohan Benalouane, Robert Huth, Ben Chilwell, Marc Albrighton, Andy King, Danny Drinkwater, Demarai Gray, Islam Slimani, Jamie Vardy