Leicester City 1-2 Watford: result and report

Championship · Friday 26 December 2025

Result

Leicester City 1-2 Watford

Championship · Friday 26 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Leicester City · Watford · Championship predictions

Leicester City 1-2 Watford: match report

Leicester City lost to Watford 1-2 in the Championship on Friday 26 December 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Jordan James opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Leicester City's goal came from Jordan James (7'). Watford scored through Othmane Maamma (45') and Mattie Pollock (65').

Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Leicester City were 13th on 31 points from 22 and Watford 10th on 32 points from 22. Leicester City went on to finish that season 21st with 52 points, and Watford 16th with 57.

Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Imrân Louza of Watford (8.7), ahead of Mattie Pollock (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Leicester City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Watford.

Going into the match Leicester City's last five read L-W-D-W-L and Watford's W-D-D-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Jordan JamesLeicester City · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Issahaku FatawuLeicester City
  • 42'Yellow card · Oliver SkippLeicester City
  • 45'Goal · Othmane MaammaWatford · 1-1
  • 48'Yellow card · Imrân LouzaWatford
  • 61'Yellow card · Hector KyprianouWatford
  • 63'Yellow card · Stephy MavididiLeicester City
  • 65'Goal · Mattie PollockWatford · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Leicester City 7, draws 1, Watford 2.

Team news

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Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jakub Stolarczyk, Ricardo Pereira, Memeh Caleb Okoli, Ben Nelson, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Jordan James, Oliver Skipp, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jordan Ayew

Watford line-up (4-4-2)

Egil Selvik, Jeremy Ngakia, Mattie Pollock, Max Lewis Rowe Alleyne, Marc Bola, Othmane Maamma, Hector Kyprianou, Imrân Louza, Tom Ince, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Luca Kjerrumgaard