Season 2026-27

Leicester vs Sunderland

Premier League · Round 31 · Tue 4 Apr 2017, 19:45

Leicester
20 Full time
Sunderland

Leicester beat Sunderland 2–0 on 4 April 2017 (Premier League 2016-2017, Round 31). Goals – Leicester: Islam Slimani 69', Jamie Vardy 78'. In 10 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Leicester have won 5, Sunderland 2 and 3 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. Half time · 0–0
  2. 69' Islam Slimani Leicester · assist Marc Albrighton 1–0
  3. 78' Jamie Vardy Leicester · assist Marc Albrighton 2–0
  4. Full time · 2–0

Lineups

Leicester

  1. 1 Kasper Schmeichel (c)
  2. 17 Danny Simpson
  3. 29 Yohan Benalouane
  4. 6 Robert Huth
  5. 28 Christian Fuchs
  6. 26 Riyad Mahrez
  7. 25 Wilfred Ndidi
  8. 4 Daniel Drinkwater
  9. 22 Demarai Gray
  10. 9 Jamie Vardy
  11. 20 Shinji Okazaki

Substitutes used

Unused

Daniel Amartey, Ben Chilwell, Leonardo Ulloa, Ron-Robert Zieler

Sunderland

  1. 13 Jordan Pickford
  2. 2 Billy Jones
  3. 23 Lamine Kone
  4. 4 Jason Denayer
  5. 3 Bryan Oviedo
  6. 6 Lee Cattermole (c)
  7. 17 Didier Ndong
  8. 8 Jack Rodwell
  9. 7 Sebastian Larsson
  10. 18 Jermain Defoe
  11. 9 Fabio Borini

Substitutes used

Unused

Papy Djilobodji, Adnan Januzaj, Vito Mannone, Javier Manquillo

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
5Leicester wins3Draws2Sunderland wins

10 meetings · goals Leicester 13–6 Sunderland

Previous meetings

3 Dec 2016 Sunderland2–1FT · 15:00Leicester
10 Apr 2016 Sunderland0–2FT · 13:30Leicester
8 Aug 2015 Leicester4–2FT · 15:00Sunderland
16 May 2015 Sunderland0–0FT · 15:00Leicester
22 Nov 2014 Leicester0–0FT · 15:00Sunderland

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2016-2017

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
12 Leicester 38 12 8 18 −15 44
20 Sunderland 38 6 6 26 −40 24

Top scorers 2016-2017

All scorers

Leicester

  1. Jamie Vardy 13
  2. Islam Slimani 7
  3. Riyad Mahrez 6

Sunderland

  1. Jermain Defoe 15
  2. Victor Anichebe 3
  3. Fabio Borini 2