Everton 2-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 31 January 2018
Result
Everton 2-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Wednesday 31 January 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Everton 2-1 Leicester City: match report
Everton beat Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 31 January 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.
T. Walcott opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Everton's goals came from T. Walcott (25') and T. Walcott (39'). Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (71', penalty).
Discipline: Everton received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 9th on 28 points from 24 and Leicester City 7th on 34 points from 24. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 49 points, and Leicester City 9th with 47.
Everton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Theo Walcott of Everton (9.8), ahead of Michael Keane (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Everton wins, 4 draws and 3 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Everton's last five read D-L-L-L-D and Leicester City's W-D-W-L-L.
Key events
- 25'Goal · T. Walcott
- 39'Goal · T. Walcott
- 71'Penalty goal · Jamie Vardy
- 90'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 90+1'Yellow card · Wilfred Ndidi
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jordan Pickford, Séamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka, Michael Keane, Cuco Martina, Idrissa Gueye, Tom Davies, Theo Walcott, Wayne Mark Rooney, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Oumar Niasse
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Aleksandar Dragovic, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Wilfred Ndidi, Matty James, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Demarai Gray, Jamie Vardy