Watford 2-1 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 3 November 2012

Result

Watford 2-1 Leicester City

Championship · Saturday 3 November 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Watford 2-1 Leicester City: match report

Watford defeated Leicester City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 3 November 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Almen Abdi opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Watford's goals came from Almen Abdi (14') and F. Forestieri (68'). Leicester City scored through David Nugent (71').

Discipline: Watford received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Watford were 16th on 16 points from 13 and Leicester City 2nd on 25 points from 13. Watford went on to finish that season 2nd with 79 points, and Leicester City 6th with 68.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Watford wins, 2 draws and 5 for Leicester City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Almen AbdiWatford · 1-0
  • 44'Yellow card · Danny DrinkwaterLeicester City
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Zak WhitbreadLeicester City
  • 68'Goal · F. ForestieriWatford · 2-0
  • 71'Goal · David NugentLeicester City · 2-1
  • 83'Second yellow · Zak WhitbreadLeicester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Watford 3, draws 2, Leicester City 5.

Team news

Watford line-up

Almunia, Fitz Hall, Lloyd Doyley, Daniel Pudil, Marco Cassetti, Tommie Hoban, Jonathan Hogg, Almen Abdi, Nathaniel Chalobah, Troy Deeney, Fernando Forestieri

Leicester City line-up

Kasper Schmeichel, Paul Konchesky, Wes Morgan, Zak Whitbread, Liam Moore, Ben Marshall, Andy King, Matty James, Anthony Knockaert, David Nugent, Danny Drinkwater