Leicester City 3-0 Huddersfield Town: result and report

Premier League · Monday 1 January 2018

Result

Leicester City 3-0 Huddersfield Town

Premier League · Monday 1 January 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Leicester City · Huddersfield Town · Premier League predictions

Leicester City 3-0 Huddersfield Town: match report

Leicester City defeated Huddersfield Town 3-0 in the Premier League on Monday 1 January 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.

Riyad Mahrez opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Leicester City's goals came from Riyad Mahrez (53'), Islam Slimani (60') and Marc Albrighton (90+2'). Huddersfield Town did not score.

Discipline: Leicester City received 1 yellow card; Huddersfield Town received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Leicester City were 8th on 27 points from 21 and Huddersfield Town 11th on 24 points from 21. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 47 points, and Huddersfield Town 16th with 37.

Leicester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Huddersfield Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Riyad Mahrez of Leicester City (8.7), ahead of Marc Albrighton (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Leicester City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Huddersfield Town.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Yellow card · Wes MorganLeicester City
  • 53'Goal · Riyad MahrezLeicester City · 1-0
  • 60'Goal · Islam SlimaniLeicester City · 2-0
  • 84'Yellow card · Scott MaloneHuddersfield Town
  • 90+2'Goal · Marc AlbrightonLeicester City · 3-0

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Leicester City 0, draws 1, Huddersfield Town 0.

Team news

Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)

Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Wilfred Ndidi, Matty James, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Islam Slimani

Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jonas Lössl, Tommy Smith, Zanka, Christopher Schindler, Chris Löwe, Danny Williams, Aaron Mooy, Rajiv van La Parra, Tom Ince, Joe Lolley, Steve Mounié