Preston North End 2-1 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 August 2025

Result

Preston North End 2-1 Leicester City

Championship · Saturday 16 August 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Preston North End 2-1 Leicester City: match report

Preston North End defeated Leicester City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 16 August 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

Alfie Devine opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Preston North End's goals came from Alfie Devine (7') and Milutin Osmajic (85'). Leicester City scored through Jeremy Monga (67').

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

Preston North End went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Leicester City 21st with 52.

Preston North End lined up in a 5-3-2 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pol Valentín of Preston North End (7.7), ahead of Alfie Devine (7.2).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Alfie DevinePreston North End · 1-0
  • 67'Goal · Jeremy MongaLeicester City · 1-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Jordan StoreyPreston North End
  • 85'Yellow card · Milutin OsmajicPreston North End
  • 85'Goal · Milutin OsmajicPreston North End · 2-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Preston North End line-up (5-3-2)

Daniel Iversen, Pol Valentín, Jordan Storey, Lewis Gibson, Andrew Hughes, Thierry Small, Ali McCann, Ben Whiteman, Alfie Devine, Michael Smith, Milutin Osmajic

Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jakub Stolarczyk, James Justin, Memeh Caleb Okoli, Jannik Vestergaard, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Harry Winks, Boubakary Soumaré, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Bilal El Khannouss, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jordan Ayew