Norwich City 1-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 28 August 2021
Result
Norwich City 1-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 28 August 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Norwich City 1-2 Leicester City: match report
Norwich City were beaten by Leicester City 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 August 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Norwich City's goal came from Teemu Pukki (44', penalty). Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (8') and Marc Albrighton (76').
Discipline: Norwich City received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Norwich City were 19th on 0 points from 2 and Leicester City 12th on 3 points from 2. Norwich City went on to finish that season 20th with 22 points, and Leicester City 8th with 52.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (7.9), ahead of Wilfred Ndidi (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Norwich City win, 2 draws and 1 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 25'Yellow card · Pierre Lees-Melou
- 44'Penalty goal · Teemu Pukki
- 69'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 76'Goal · Marc Albrighton
- 82'Yellow card · Todd Cantwell
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Wesley Fofana
- Jonny Evans
- James Justin
- Przemyslaw Placheta
- Christos Tzolis
- Nampalys Mendy
- Sam Hughes
- Rocky Bushiri
Norwich City line-up (4-3-3)
Tim Krul, Max Aarons, Grant Hanley, Ben Gibson, Brandon Williams, Pierre Lees-Melou, Billy Gilmour, Kenny McLean, Todd Cantwell, Teemu Pukki, Milot Rashica
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Daniel Amartey, Çağlar Söyüncü, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Marc Albrighton, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy, James Maddison