Leicester City 3-1 Huddersfield Town: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 22 September 2018
Result
Leicester City 3-1 Huddersfield Town
Premier League · Saturday 22 September 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
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Leicester City 3-1 Huddersfield Town: match report
Leicester City defeated Huddersfield Town 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 September 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Zanka opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Kelechi Iheanacho (19'), James Maddison (66') and Jamie Vardy (75'). Huddersfield Town scored through Zanka (5').
Discipline: Leicester City received 2 yellow cards; Huddersfield Town received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 11th on 6 points from 5 and Huddersfield Town 18th on 2 points from 5. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 52 points, and Huddersfield Town 20th with 16.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Huddersfield Town in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (9.0), ahead of Kelechi Iheanacho (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Leicester City win, 1 draw and 0 for Huddersfield Town.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Zanka
- 18'Yellow card · Wilfred Ndidi
- 19'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 43'Yellow card · Rachid Ghezzal
- 47'Yellow card · Terence Kongolo
- 66'Goal · James Maddison
- 75'Goal · Jamie Vardy
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Jonny Evans, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Wilfred Ndidi, Nampalys Mendy, Rachid Ghezza, Kelechi Iheanacho, James Maddison, Jamie Vardy
Huddersfield Town line-up (5-4-1)
Jonas Lössl, Erik Durm, Zanka, Christopher Schindler, Terence Kongolo, Chris Löwe, Elias Kachunga, Aaron Mooy, Philip Billing, Rajiv van La Parra, Laurent Depoitre