Newcastle United 0-3 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2020
Result
Newcastle United 0-3 Leicester City
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
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Newcastle United 0-3 Leicester City: match report
Newcastle United were beaten by Leicester City 0-3 in the Premier League on Wednesday 1 January 2020. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Ayoze Pérez opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Newcastle United did not score. Leicester City scored through Ayoze Pérez (36'), James Maddison (39') and Hamza Choudhury (87').
Discipline: Newcastle United received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 11th on 25 points from 20 and Leicester City 2nd on 42 points from 20. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 13th with 44 points, and Leicester City 5th with 62.
Newcastle United lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Leicester City in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to James Maddison of Leicester City (8.5), ahead of Ayoze Pérez (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Newcastle United wins, 0 draws and 6 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Federico Fernández
- 36'Goal · Ayoze Pérez
- 39'Goal · James Maddison
- 59'Yellow card · Y. Tielemans
- 87'Goal · Hamza Choudhury
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up (3-4-2-1)
Martin Dúbravka, Fabian Schär, Federico Fernández, Florian Lejeune, Javier Manquillo, Isaac Hayden, Jonjo Shelvey, Jetro Willems, Yoshinori Muto, Miguel Almirón, Joelinton
Leicester City line-up (3-1-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Çağlar Söyüncü, Jonny Evans, Christian Fuchs, Wilfred Ndidi, Ricardo Pereira, Youri Tielemans, James Maddison, Ben Chilwell, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ayoze Pérez