Sunderland 0-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 10 April 2016
Result
Sunderland 0-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Sunday 10 April 2016, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Sunderland 0-2 Leicester City: match report
Sunderland were beaten by Leicester City 0-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 10 April 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring in the 66th minute. Sunderland did not score. Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (66') and Jamie Vardy (90+5').
Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 26 points from 31 and Leicester City 1st on 65 points from 32. Sunderland went on to finish that season 17th with 37 points, and Leicester City 1st with 76.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (9.3), ahead of Younès Kaboul (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 3 draws and 3 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read D-D-D-L-L and Leicester City's W-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · Fabio Borini
- 30'Yellow card · Juanjo González
- 66'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 90+5'Goal · Jamie Vardy
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up (4-1-4-1)
Vito Mannone, DeAndre Yedlin, Lamine Koné, Younès Kaboul, Patrick van Aanholt, Jan Kirchhoff, Fabio Borini, Yann M'Vila, Lee Cattermole, Wahbi Khazri, Jermain Defoe
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kanté, Danny Drinkwater, Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki, Jamie Vardy