Leicester City 4-2 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 10 December 2016
Result
Leicester City 4-2 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 10 December 2016, 17:30 UTC · half-time 3-0
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Leicester City 4-2 Manchester City: match report
Leicester City defeated Manchester City 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 10 December 2016. It was 3-0 at half-time.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Leicester City's goals came from Jamie Vardy (3'), Andy King (5'), Jamie Vardy (20') and Jamie Vardy (78'). Manchester City scored through Aleksandar Kolarov (82') and Nolito (90').
Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 16th on 13 points from 14 and Manchester City 4th on 30 points from 14. Leicester City went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Manchester City 3rd with 78.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 3-3-1-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (9.2), ahead of Aleksandar Kolarov (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Manchester City.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 5'Goal · Andy King
- 19'Yellow card · Danny Simpson
- 20'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 57'Yellow card · Riyad Mahrez
- 67'Yellow card · Fernando
- 78'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 82'Goal · Aleksandar Kolarov
- 90'Goal · Nolito
- 90+2'Yellow card · Shinji Okazaki
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Ron-Robert Zieler, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Andy King, Daniel Amartey, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy, Islam Slimani
Manchester City line-up (3-3-1-3)
Claudio Bravo, Bacary Sagna, John Stones, Aleksandar Kolarov, Pablo Zabaleta, Fernando, İlkay Gündoğan, David Silva, Jesús Navas, Kelechi Iheanacho, Kevin De Bruyne