Leicester City 0-3 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 16 December 2017
Result
Leicester City 0-3 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 16 December 2017, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-2
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Leicester City 0-3 Crystal Palace: match report
Leicester City were beaten by Crystal Palace 0-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 16 December 2017. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Christian Benteke opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Leicester City did not score. Crystal Palace scored through Christian Benteke (19'), Wilfried Zaha (40') and Bakary Sako (90+4').
Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 8th on 26 points from 17 and Crystal Palace 18th on 14 points from 17. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 47 points, and Crystal Palace 11th with 44.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Christian Benteke of Crystal Palace (8.3), ahead of Wilfried Zaha (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 40'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 51'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 52'Yellow card · Wilfred Ndidi
- 56'Yellow card · Harry Maguire
- 61'Second yellow · Wilfred Ndidi
- 67'Yellow card · Jeffrey Schlupp
- 86'Yellow card · Danny Simpson
- 90+4'Goal · Bakary Sako
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Wilfred Ndidi, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Riyad Mahrez, Demarai Gray, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Julián Speroni, Martin Kelly, James Tomkins, Scott Dann, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, James McArthur, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha