Watford 0-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 5 March 2016
Result
Watford 0-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 5 March 2016, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Watford 0-1 Leicester City: match report
Watford lost to Leicester City 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 March 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Riyad Mahrez of Leicester City in the 56th minute.
Discipline: Watford received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Watford were 12th on 37 points from 28 and Leicester City 2nd on 53 points from 28. Watford went on to finish that season 12th with 48 points, and Leicester City 1st with 76.
Watford lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nathan Aké of Watford (8.2), ahead of N'Golo Kanté (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Watford wins, 0 draws and 1 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Watford's last five read L-D-W-L-D and Leicester City's D-W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Nordin Amrabat
- 56'Goal · Riyad Mahrez
- 58'Yellow card · Nathan Aké
- 74'Yellow card · Juanjo González
- 90+2'Yellow card · Wes Morgan
Head-to-head
Team news
Watford line-up (4-4-2)
Heurelho Gomes, Allan Nyom, Sebastian Prödl, Nathan Aké, José Holebas, Nordin Amrabat, Mario Suárez, Ben Watson, Étienne Capoue, Troy Deeney, Odion Ighalo
Leicester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Riyad Mahrez, Danny Drinkwater, N'Golo Kanté, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy, Shinji Okazaki