Leicester City 2-0 Stoke City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 7 October 2023
Result
Leicester City 2-0 Stoke City
Championship · Saturday 7 October 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 2-0 Stoke City: match report
Leicester City won against Stoke City 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 7 October 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.
Kelechi Iheanacho opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Kelechi Iheanacho (24') and Jamie Vardy (79'). Stoke City did not score.
Discipline: Leicester City received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 1st on 27 points from 10 and Stoke City 18th on 10 points from 10. Leicester City went on to finish that season 1st with 97 points, and Stoke City 17th with 56.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jannik Vestergaard of Leicester City (8.7), ahead of Hamza Dewan Choudhury (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 6 draws and 1 for Stoke City.
Key events
- 24'Goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 26'Yellow card · Jannik Vestergaard
- 32'Yellow card · Wouter Burger
- 79'Goal · Jamie Vardy
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-3-3)
Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Harry James Souttar, Jannik Vestergaard, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Harry Winks, Cesare Casadei, Yunus Akgün, Kelechi Iheanacho, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku
Stoke City line-up (4-4-2)
Mark Travers, Junior Tchamadeu, Luke McNally, Josh Laurent, Jordan Thompson, Mehdi Léris, Ben Pearson, Wouter Burger, Daniel Johnson, Jun-ho Bae, Nathan Lowe