Napoli 3-2 Leicester City: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 9 December 2021
Result
Napoli 3-2 Leicester City
Europa League · Thursday 9 December 2021, 17:45 UTC · half-time 2-2
Napoli 3-2 Leicester City: match report
Napoli won against Leicester City 3-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 9 December 2021. The half-time score was 2-2.
Adam Ounas opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Napoli's goals came from Adam Ounas (4'), Eljif Elmas (24') and Eljif Elmas (53'). Leicester City scored through Jonny Evans (27') and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (33').
Discipline: Napoli received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Napoli were 20th on 7 points from 5 and Leicester City 18th on 8 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Napoli lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Eljif Elmas of Napoli (8.1), ahead of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 0 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Adam Ounas
- 24'Goal · Eljif Elmas
- 27'Goal · Jonny Evans
- 33'Yellow card · Andrea Petagna
- 33'Goal · Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall
- 53'Goal · Eljif Elmas
- 77'Yellow card · Diego Demme
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Wesley Fofana
- James Justin
- Alessandro Zanoli
- Ricardo Pereira
- Nampalys Mendy
- Stanislav Lobotka
- Kalidou Koulibaly
- Fabián Ruiz
- Victor Osimhen
- Frank Anguissa
- Lorenzo Insigne
Napoli line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alex Meret, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Amir Rrahmani, Juan Jesus, Mário Rui, Diego Demme, Piotr Zielinski, Hirving Lozano, Adam Ounas, Eljif Elmas, Andrea Petagna
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Timothy Castagne, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Ryan Bertrand, Youri Tielemans, Wilfred Ndidi, James Maddison, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy