Norwich City 0-2 Leicester City: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 20 September 2023
Result
Norwich City 0-2 Leicester City
Championship · Wednesday 20 September 2023, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Norwich City 0-2 Leicester City: match report
Norwich City were beaten by Leicester City 0-2 in the Championship on Wednesday 20 September 2023. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Kelechi Iheanacho opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Norwich City did not score. Leicester City scored through Kelechi Iheanacho (45', penalty) and Kasey McAteer (87').
Discipline: Norwich City received 3 yellow cards; Leicester City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Norwich City were 5th on 13 points from 6 and Leicester City 3rd on 15 points from 6. Norwich City went on to finish that season 6th with 74 points, and Leicester City 1st with 97.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mads Hermansen of Leicester City (7.8), level with Wout Felix Lina Faes (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Norwich City wins, 3 draws and 4 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 35'Yellow card · Kasey McAteer
- 39'Yellow card · Shane Duffy
- 42'Yellow card · Ben Gibson
- 43'Yellow card · Ashley Barnes
- 45'Penalty goal · Kelechi Iheanacho
- 70'Yellow card · Jamie Vardy
- 71'Yellow card · Harry Winks
- 87'Goal · Kasey McAteer
- 90'Yellow card · Jannik Vestergaard
Head-to-head
Team news
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Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Angus Gunn, Jack Stacey, Shane Duffy, Ben Gibson, Dimitrios Giannoulis, Gabriel Sara, Kenny McLean, Christian Fassnacht, Liam Gibbs, Jonathan Rowe, Ashley Barnes
Leicester City line-up (3-5-2)
Mads Hermansen, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Jannik Vestergaard, Callum Doyle, Yunus Akgün, Harry Winks, Cesare Casadei, Kasey McAteer, Kelechi Iheanacho, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi