Leicester City 0-2 Everton: result and report
Premier League · Monday 26 December 2016
Result
Leicester City 0-2 Everton
Premier League · Monday 26 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Leicester City 0-2 Everton: match report
Leicester City lost to Everton 0-2 in the Premier League on Monday 26 December 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.
Kevin Mirallas opened the scoring in the 51st minute. Leicester City did not score. Everton scored through Kevin Mirallas (51') and Romelu Lukaku (90+1').
Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Everton received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 15th on 17 points from 17 and Everton 9th on 23 points from 17. Leicester City went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Everton 7th with 61.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Everton in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ashley Williams of Everton (8.0), ahead of Romelu Lukaku (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Leicester City wins, 6 draws and 2 for Everton.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read D-L-W-L-D and Everton's L-W-L-D-L.
Key events
- 51'Goal · Kevin Mirallas
- 79'Yellow card · Danny Simpson
- 85'Yellow card · Danny Drinkwater
- 90+1'Goal · Romelu Lukaku
- 90+1'Yellow card · Wes Morgan
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Marcin Wasilewski, Wes Morgan, Ben Chilwell, Demarai Gray, Andy King, Daniel Amartey, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Islam Slimani
Everton line-up (3-4-2-1)
Joel Robles, Mason Holgate, Ashley Williams, Ramiro Funes Mori, Séamus Coleman, Idrissa Gueye, Gareth Barry, Leighton Baines, Aaron Lennon, Kevin Mirallas, Romelu Lukaku