Sunderland 2-1 Leicester City: result and report

Sunderland 2-1 Leicester City

Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sunderland beat Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Sunderland's goals came from an own goal by Robert Huth (64') and Jermain Defoe (77'). Leicester City scored through Shinji Okazaki (80').

Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 20th on 8 points from 13 and Leicester City 14th on 13 points from 13. Sunderland went on to finish that season 20th with 24 points, and Leicester City 12th with 44.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Victor Anichebe of Sunderland (8.1), ahead of Papy Djilobodji (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 3 draws and 4 for Leicester City.

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