Leeds United 3-0 Preston North End: result and report
Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017
Result
Leeds United 3-0 Preston North End
Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Leeds United 3-0 Preston North End: match report
Leeds United defeated Preston North End 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 8 April 2017. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Kemar Roofe opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Leeds United's goals came from Kemar Roofe (18'), Pablo Hernández (45') and Souleymane Doukara (90+3'). Preston North End did not score.
Discipline: Leeds United received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Leeds United were 5th on 69 points from 40 and Preston North End 7th on 62 points from 40. Leeds United went on to finish that season 7th with 75 points, and Preston North End 12th with 63.
Leeds United lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Preston North End in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Kemar Roofe of Leeds United (9.0), ahead of Kyle Bartley (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Leeds United wins, 2 draws and 3 for Preston North End.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Kemar Roofe
- 45'Goal · Pablo Hernández
- 78'Yellow card · C. Wood
- 86'Red card · A. Baptiste
- 90+3'Goal · Souleymane Doukara
Head-to-head
Team news
Leeds United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Robert Green, Luke Ayling, Kyle Bartley, Pontus Jansson, Gaetano Berardi, Ronaldo Vieira, Kalvin Phillips, Kemar Roofe, Pablo Hernández, Alfonso Pedraza, Chris Wood
Preston North End line-up (3-4-1-2)
Chris Maxwell, Tom Clarke, Paul Huntington, Alex Baptiste, Marnick Vermijl, Paul Gallagher, Ben Pearson, G. Cunningham, Aiden McGeady, Tom Barkhuizen, Callum Robinson