Leicester City 4-0 Sporting Braga: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 5 November 2020
Result
Leicester City 4-0 Sporting Braga
Europa League · Thursday 5 November 2020, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 4-0 Sporting Braga: match report
Leicester City defeated Sporting Braga 4-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 5 November 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Kelechi Iheanacho opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Kelechi Iheanacho (20'), Kelechi Iheanacho (47'), Dennis Praet (67') and James Maddison (78'). Sporting Braga did not score.
Discipline: Leicester City received 2 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 27th on 6 points from 2 and Sporting Braga 28th on 6 points from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Leicester City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to James Maddison of Leicester City (9.5), ahead of Kelechi Iheanacho (9.2).
Key events
- 20'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 43'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 45+2'Yellow card · Ricardo Esgaio
- 47'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 67'Goal · Dennis Praet
- 69'Yellow card · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 78'Goal · James Maddison
- 90'Yellow card · David Carmo
Team news
Unavailable
- Ricardo Horta
- Fransérgio
- Daniel Amartey
- Ricardo Pereira
- Timothy Castagne
- Jonny Evans
- Çağlar Söyüncü
- Wilfred Ndidi
Leicester City line-up (3-4-2-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, James Justin, Wesley Fofana, Christian Fuchs, Marc Albrighton, Youri Tielemans, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Cengiz Ünder, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho
Sporting Braga line-up (3-5-2)
Matheus, Bruno Viana, David Carmo, Raúl Silva, Ricardo Esgaio, André Horta, Moatasem Al-Musrati, João Novais, Galeno, Paulinho, Abel Ruiz