Aston Villa 2-4 Leicester City: result and report

Aston Villa 2-4 Leicester City

Premier League · Saturday 4 February 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-3

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Aston Villa were beaten by Leicester City 2-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 February 2023. It was 2-3 at half-time.

Ollie Watkins opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ollie Watkins (9') and an own goal by Harry Souttar (32'). Leicester City scored through James Maddison (12'), Kelechi Iheanacho (41'), Tetê (45+2') and Dennis Praet (79').

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 11th on 28 points from 20 and Leicester City 14th on 18 points from 20. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 7th with 61 points, and Leicester City 18th with 34.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kelechi Iheanacho of Leicester City (8.2), ahead of Tetê (7.7).

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