Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2018

Result

Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester City

Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester City: match report

Crystal Palace beat Leicester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 December 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Luka Milivojevic of Crystal Palace in the 39th minute.

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 16th on 12 points from 16 and Leicester City 9th on 22 points from 16. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 49 points, and Leicester City 9th with 52.

Crystal Palace 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 Cheikhou Kouyaté of Crystal Palace (8.0), level with Luka Milivojevic (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 3 for Leicester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 39'Goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · James McArthurCrystal Palace
  • 61'Yellow card · Ricardo PereiraLeicester City
  • 90'Yellow card · Vicente GuaitaCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Crystal Palace 4, draws 1, Leicester City 3.

Team news

Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)

Vicente Guaita, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Martin Kelly, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, James McArthur, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Luka Milivojevic, Max Meyer, Andros Townsend, Jordan Ayew

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

Kasper Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi, Marc Albrighton, James Maddison, Demarai Gray, Jamie Vardy