Aston Villa 1-4 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 8 December 2019
Result
Aston Villa 1-4 Leicester City
Premier League · Sunday 8 December 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Aston Villa 1-4 Leicester City: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Leicester City 1-4 in the Premier League on Sunday 8 December 2019. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Jack Grealish (45+2'). Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (20'), Kelechi Iheanacho (41'), Jonny Evans (49') and Jamie Vardy (75').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 6 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 17th on 15 points from 15 and Leicester City 2nd on 35 points from 15. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 17th with 35 points, and Leicester City 5th with 62.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Leicester City in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (9.1), ahead of Kelechi Iheanacho (8.9).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 3 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 13'Yellow card · T. Mings
- 20'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 36'Yellow card · M. Nakamba
- 38'Yellow card · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 41'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 45+1'Yellow card · Ricardo Pereira
- 45+2'Goal · Jack Grealish
- 45+3'Yellow card · Wesley Moraes
- 49'Goal · Jonny Evans
- 50'Yellow card · Matt Targett
- 60'Yellow card · John McGinn
- 75'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jack Grealish
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-1-4-1)
Tom Heaton, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Matt Targett, Marvelous Nakamba, Anwar El Ghazi, John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Jack Grealish, Wesley Moraes
Leicester City line-up (4-3-1-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Ben Chilwell, Dennis Praet, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, James Maddison, Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho