Liverpool 2-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Thursday 1 January 2015
Result
Liverpool 2-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Thursday 1 January 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Liverpool 2-2 Leicester City: match report
Liverpool drew with Leicester City 2-2 in the Premier League on Thursday 1 January 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Steven Gerrard opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Liverpool's goals came from Steven Gerrard (17', penalty) and Steven Gerrard (40', penalty). Leicester City scored through David Nugent (58') and Jeffrey Schlupp (60').
Discipline: Liverpool received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Liverpool were 11th on 24 points from 19 and Leicester City 20th on 14 points from 19. Liverpool went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Leicester City 14th with 43.
Liverpool lined up in a 3-4-3 and Leicester City in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Liverpool wins, 1 draw and 1 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Liverpool's last five read W-W-D-L-D and Leicester City's W-D-L-L-L.
Key events
- 17'Penalty goal · Steven Gerrard
- 21'Yellow card · Lucas Leiva
- 36'Yellow card · Marcin Wasilewski
- 40'Penalty goal · Steven Gerrard
- 58'Goal · David Nugent
- 60'Goal · Jeffrey Schlupp
- 89'Yellow card · Matty James
- 90+1'Yellow card · Steven Gerrard
Head-to-head
Team news
Liverpool line-up (3-4-3)
Simon Mignolet, Kolo Touré, Emre Can, Mamadou Sakho, Jordan Henderson, Steven Gerrard, Lucas Leiva, Alberto Moreno, Philippe Coutinho, Raheem Sterling, Adam Lallana
Leicester City line-up (4-5-1)
Ben Hamer, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Marcin Wasilewski, Ritchie De Laet, Riyad Mahrez, Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Dean Hammond, Jeffrey Schlupp, Jamie Vardy