Leicester City 1-2 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 1 September 2018
Result
Leicester City 1-2 Liverpool
Premier League · Saturday 1 September 2018, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-2
Leicester City 1-2 Liverpool: match report
Leicester City were beaten by Liverpool 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 September 2018. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Leicester City's goal came from Rachid Ghezzal (63'). Liverpool scored through Sadio Mané (10') and Roberto Firmino (45').
Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 7th on 6 points from 3 and Liverpool 1st on 9 points from 3. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 52 points, and Liverpool 2nd with 97.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sadio Mané of Liverpool (7.8), ahead of James Milner (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 6 for Liverpool.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Sadio Mané
- 45'Goal · Roberto Firmino
- 55'Yellow card · Virgil van Dijk
- 61'Yellow card · Rachid Ghezzal
- 63'Goal · Rachid Ghezzal
- 88'Yellow card · Nampalys Mendy
- 90+3'Yellow card · James Milner
- 90+5'Yellow card · Wilfred Ndidi
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi, Rachid Ghezza, James Maddison, Marc Albrighton, Demarai Gray
Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)
Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Georginio Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané