Leicester City 2-1 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2016
Result
Leicester City 2-1 Swansea City
Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 2-1 Swansea City: match report
Leicester City defeated Swansea City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 August 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Leicester City's goals came from Jamie Vardy (32') and Wes Morgan (52'). Swansea City scored through Leroy Fer (80').
Discipline: Leicester City received 2 yellow cards; Swansea City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 15th on 1 point from 2 and Swansea City 12th on 3 points from 2. Leicester City went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Swansea City 15th with 41.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Swansea City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Danny Drinkwater of Leicester City (8.1), ahead of Wes Morgan (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Leicester City wins, 0 draws and 1 for Swansea City.
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Federico Fernández
- 26'Yellow card · Robert Huth
- 32'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 52'Goal · Wes Morgan
- 56'Missed penalty · Riyad Mahrez
- 66'Yellow card · Leroy Fer
- 70'Yellow card · Danny Simpson
- 80'Goal · Leroy Fer
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Daniel Amartey, Danny Drinkwater, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Jamie Vardy
Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernández, Jordi Amat, Stephen Kingsley, Leroy Fer, Jack Cork, Modou Barrow, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Wayne Routledge, Fernando Llorente