Sunderland 0-1 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 5 March 2024

Result

Sunderland 0-1 Leicester City

Championship · Tuesday 5 March 2024, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

Sunderland · Leicester City · Championship predictions

Sunderland 0-1 Leicester City: match report

Sunderland were beaten by Leicester City 0-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 5 March 2024. It was 0-1 at half-time.

The only goal came from Jamie Vardy of Leicester City in the 13th minute.

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

Going into the game Sunderland were 10th on 47 points from 35 and Leicester City 1st on 78 points from 35. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Leicester City 1st with 97.

Sunderland lined up in a 5-4-1 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mads Hermansen of Leicester City (8.5), ahead of Trai Hume (8.1).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 0-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Luke O'NienSunderland
  • 68'Yellow card · Mads HermansenLeicester City
  • 81'Yellow card · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City
  • 90'Yellow card · Wilfred NdidiLeicester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sunderland 3, draws 3, Leicester City 4.

Team news

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Sunderland line-up (5-4-1)

Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Jenson Seelt, Dan Ballard, Luke O'Nien, Leo Hjelde, Chris Rigg, Pierre Ekwah, Dan Neil, Jobe Bellingham, Luís Semedo

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

Mads Hermansen, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Conor Coady, Callum Doyle, Harry Winks, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Yunus Akgün, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jamie Vardy