Leicester City 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 11 February 2012
Result
Leicester City 2-1 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 11 February 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 2-1 Cardiff City: match report
Leicester City won against Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 11 February 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Paul Gallagher opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Leicester City's goals came from Paul Gallagher (41', penalty) and Paul Gallagher (71'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (77', penalty).
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 13th on 39 points from 29 and Cardiff City 4th on 50 points from 29. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Cardiff City 6th with 75.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 3 draws and 4 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read L-D-W-L-W and Cardiff City's L-D-W-D-W.
Key events
- 41'Penalty goal · Paul Gallagher
- 45'Yellow card · F. Kiss
- 70'Yellow card · Don Cowie
- 71'Goal · Paul Gallagher
- 77'Penalty goal · Peter Whittingham
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up
Kasper Schmeichel, Lee Peltier, Paul Konchesky, Matthew Mills, Paul Gallagher, Lloyd Dyer, Jermaine Beckford, David Nugent, Sean St. Ledger, Danny Drinkwater, Richard Wellens
Cardiff City line-up
Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Anthony Gerrard, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Craig Conway, Aron Gunnarsson, H. Vučkić, Kenny Miller