Leicester City 2-1 Burnley: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 19 October 2019
Result
Leicester City 2-1 Burnley
Premier League · Saturday 19 October 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Leicester City 2-1 Burnley: match report
Leicester City defeated Burnley 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 October 2019. The half-time score was 1-1.
C. Wood opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Jamie Vardy (45') and Youri Tielemans (74'). Burnley scored through C. Wood (26').
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Burnley received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 4th on 14 points from 8 and Burnley 7th on 12 points from 8. Leicester City went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Burnley 10th with 54.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Burnley in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Harvey Barnes of Leicester City (8.0), ahead of Ricardo Pereira (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 2 for Burnley.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read L-W-W-L-W and Burnley's W-D-W-D-L.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · Jeff Hendrick
- 26'Goal · C. Wood
- 45'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 62'Yellow card · C. Wood
- 74'Goal · Youri Tielemans
- 90+4'Yellow card · Matthew Lowton
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Ben Chilwell, Wilfred Ndidi, Ayoze Pérez, Youri Tielemans, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy
Burnley line-up (4-4-2)
Nick Pope, Matthew Lowton, James Tarkowski, Ben Mee, Erik Pieters, Dwight McNeil, Ashley Westwood, Jeff Hendrick, Robbie Brady, Chris Wood, Jay Rodríguez