Everton 0-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Tuesday 1 January 2019
Result
Everton 0-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Tuesday 1 January 2019, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Everton 0-1 Leicester City: match report
Everton lost to Leicester City 0-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 1 January 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Jamie Vardy of Leicester City in the 58th minute.
Discipline: Everton received 3 yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Everton were 10th on 27 points from 20 and Leicester City 8th on 28 points from 20. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 54 points, and Leicester City 9th with 52.
Everton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ricardo Pereira of Leicester City (8.4), ahead of Danny Simpson (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Everton wins, 3 draws and 3 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Everton's last five read L-W-L-L-D and Leicester City's L-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 52'Yellow card · André Gomes
- 58'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 75'Yellow card · Jonny Evans
- 80'Yellow card · L. Digne
- 81'Yellow card · Cenk Tosun
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jordan Pickford, Jonjoe Kenny, Michael Keane, Kurt Zouma, Lucas Digne, André Gomes, Idrissa Gueye, Theo Walcott, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Richarlison, Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Leicester City line-up (4-3-3)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Jonny Evans, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi, Rachid Ghezza, Jamie Vardy, Ricardo Pereira