Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Monday 22 October 2018
Result
Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Monday 22 October 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City: match report
Arsenal beat Leicester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Monday 22 October 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Arsenal's goals came from M. Özil (45'), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (63') and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (66'). Leicester City scored through an own goal by Héctor Bellerín (31').
Discipline: Arsenal received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Arsenal were 5th on 18 points from 8 and Leicester City 11th on 12 points from 8. Arsenal went on to finish that season 5th with 70 points, and Leicester City 9th with 52.
Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mesut Özil of Arsenal (9.2), ahead of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (8.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 1 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Leicester City's L-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 17'Yellow card · R. Holding
- 31'Own goal · Héctor Bellerín
- 35'Yellow card · Granit Xhaka
- 45'Goal · M. Özil
- 63'Goal · Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
- 64'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 65'Yellow card · Ricardo Pereira
- 66'Goal · Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bernd Leno, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Özil, Alex Iwobi, Alexandre Lacazette
Leicester City line-up (3-4-1-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Amartey, Harry Maguire, Jonny Evans, Ricardo Pereira, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi, Ben Chilwell, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jamie Vardy