Sevilla 2-1 Leicester City: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 22 February 2017
Result
Sevilla 2-1 Leicester City
Champions League · Wednesday 22 February 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sevilla 2-1 Leicester City: match report
Sevilla won against Leicester City 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday 22 February 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Pablo Sarabia opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Sevilla's goals came from Pablo Sarabia (25') and Joaquín Correa (62'). Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (73').
Discipline: Sevilla received 3 yellow cards; Leicester City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Sevilla were 19th on 11 points from 6 and Leicester City 16th on 13 points from 6. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Sevilla 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 Sergio Escudero of Sevilla (8.2), ahead of Stevan Jovetić (8.0).
Going into the match Sevilla's last five read D-L-W-W-W and Leicester City's L-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 14'Missed penalty · Joaquín Correa
- 25'Goal · Pablo Sarabia
- 62'Goal · Joaquín Correa
- 73'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 77'Yellow card · Sergio Escudero
- 90+2'Yellow card · Daniel Carriço
- 90+2'Yellow card · Daniel Carriço
Team news
Sevilla line-up (4-2-3-1)
Sergio Rico, Mariano, Adil Rami, Clément Lenglet, Sergio Escudero, Steven Nzonzi, Samir Nasri, Pablo Sarabia, Joaquín Correa, Vitolo, Stevan Jovetić
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Wilfred Ndidi, Danny Drinkwater, Ahmed Musa, Riyad Mahrez, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy