Leicester City 2-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Monday 26 April 2021
Result
Leicester City 2-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Monday 26 April 2021, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Leicester City 2-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Leicester City won against Crystal Palace 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday 26 April 2021. The half-time score was 0-1.
Wilfried Zaha opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Timothy Castagne (50') and Kelechi Iheanacho (80'). Crystal Palace scored through Wilfried Zaha (12').
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 3rd on 59 points from 32 and Crystal Palace 13th on 38 points from 31. Leicester City went on to finish that season 5th with 66 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 44.
Leicester City lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Crystal Palace in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Kelechi Iheanacho of Leicester City (9.1), ahead of Youri Tielemans (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 18'Yellow card · J. Riedewald
- 50'Goal · Timothy Castagne
- 80'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
Head-to-head
Team news
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- James Tomkins
- James McArthur
- Mamadou Sakho
- Chris Richards
- James Justin
- Cheick Doucouré
- Nathan Ferguson
- Harvey Barnes
Leicester City line-up (3-4-1-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Wesley Fofana, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Timothy Castagne, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, Luke Jonathan Thomas, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy
Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Scott Dann, Patrick van Aanholt, Jaïro Riedewald, Luka Milivojevic, Eberechi Eze, Jordan Ayew, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha