Leicester City 3-0 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 4 October 2023

Result

Leicester City 3-0 Preston North End

Championship · Wednesday 4 October 2023, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Leicester City 3-0 Preston North End: match report

Leicester City beat Preston North End 3-0 in the Championship on Wednesday 4 October 2023. The half-time score was 0-0.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall opened the scoring in the 60th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (60'), Kelechi Iheanacho (76') and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (90'). Preston North End did not score.

Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Preston North End received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Leicester City were 2nd on 24 points from 9 and Preston North End 3rd on 20 points from 9. Leicester City went on to finish that season 1st with 97 points, and Preston North End 10th with 63.

Leicester City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Preston North End in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall of Leicester City (9.7), ahead of Wout Felix Lina Faes (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 5 for Preston North End.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 60'Goal · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City · 1-0
  • 76'Goal · Kelechi IheanachoLeicester City · 2-0
  • 82'Yellow card · Ben WoodburnPreston North End
  • 86'Yellow card · Layton StewartPreston North End
  • 90'Goal · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City · 3-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Leicester City 3, draws 2, Preston North End 5.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Ched EvansPreston North End · injury (Unknown Injury)

Leicester City line-up (4-3-3)

Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Conor Coady, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Harry Winks, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Jamie Vardy, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi

Preston North End line-up (4-4-1-1)

Freddie Woodman, Brad Potts, Liam Lindsay, Jack Whatmough, G. Cunningham, Liam Millar, Ben Whiteman, Ali McCann, Robbie Brady, Duane Holmes, Milutin Osmajic