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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · T. WalcottEverton · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · T. WalcottEverton · 2-0
  • 71'Penalty goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 2-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Marc AlbrightonLeicester City
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Wilfred NdidiLeicester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 3, draws 4, Leicester City 3.

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