Leicester City 1-2 Newcastle United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 7 April 2018
Result
Leicester City 1-2 Newcastle United
Premier League · Saturday 7 April 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Leicester City 1-2 Newcastle United: match report
Leicester City lost to Newcastle United 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 April 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.
J. Shelvey opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Leicester City's goal came from Jamie Vardy (83'). Newcastle United scored through J. Shelvey (18') and Ayoze Pérez (75').
Discipline: Leicester City received 1 yellow card; Newcastle United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 8th on 43 points from 31 and Newcastle United 12th on 35 points from 31. Leicester City went on to finish that season 9th with 47 points, and Newcastle United 10th with 44.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Newcastle United in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ayoze Pérez of Newcastle United (8.0), ahead of Florian Lejeune (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Newcastle United.
Key events
- 18'Goal · J. Shelvey
- 21'Yellow card · Jamaal Lascelles
- 21'Yellow card · Harry Maguire
- 52'Yellow card · Dwight Gayle
- 55'Yellow card · Matt Ritchie
- 75'Goal · Ayoze Pérez
- 83'Goal · Jamie Vardy
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Adrien Silva, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Riyad Mahrez, Fousseni Diabaté, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy
Newcastle United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Martin Dúbravka, DeAndre Yedlin, Jamaal Lascelles, Florian Lejeune, Paul Dummett, Matt Ritchie, Mohamed Diamé, Jonjo Shelvey, Kenedy, Ayoze Pérez, Dwight Gayle