Season 2026-27

Leicester vs Crystal Palace

Premier League · Round 18 · Sat 16 Dec 2017, 12:30

Leicester
03 Full time
Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace won 3–0 away at Leicester on 16 December 2017 (Premier League 2017-2018, Round 18). Goals – Crystal Palace: Christian Benteke 19', Wilfried Zaha 40', Bakary Sako 90+4'. In 20 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Leicester have won 7, Crystal Palace 8 and 5 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 19' Christian Benteke Crystal Palace · assist Andros Townsend 0–1
  2. 40' Wilfried Zaha Crystal Palace · assist Christian Benteke 0–2
  3. Half time · 0–2
  4. 61' Wilfred Ndidi Leicester · Second yellow card · Diving
  5. 90+4' Bakary Sako Crystal Palace · assist Ruben Loftus-Cheek 0–3
  6. Full time · 0–3

Lineups

Leicester

  1. 1 Kasper Schmeichel
  2. 2 Danny Simpson
  3. 5 Wes Morgan (c)
  4. 15 Harry Maguire
  5. 3 Ben Chilwell
  6. 25 Wilfred Ndidi
  7. 21 Iborra Vicente
  8. 26 Riyad Mahrez
  9. 7 Demarai Gray
  10. 11 Marc Albrighton
  11. 9 Jamie Vardy

Substitutes used

Unused

Aleksandar Dragovic, Christian Fuchs, Ben Hamer, Kelechi Iheanacho

Crystal Palace

  1. 1 Julian Speroni
  2. 34 Martin Kelly
  3. 5 James Tomkins
  4. 6 Scott Dann (c)
  5. 15 Jeffrey Schlupp
  6. 10 Andros Townsend
  7. 7 Yohan Cabaye
  8. 18 James McArthur
  9. 8 Ruben Loftus-Cheek
  10. 11 Wilfried Zaha
  11. 17 Christian Benteke

Substitutes used

Unused

Wayne Hennessey, Chung-Yong Lee, Pape Souare, Patrick van Aanholt, Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
7Leicester wins5Draws8Crystal Palace wins

20 meetings · goals Leicester 23–30 Crystal Palace

Previous meetings

15 Apr 2017 Crystal Palace2–2FT · 15:00Leicester
22 Oct 2016 Leicester3–1FT · 15:00Crystal Palace
19 Mar 2016 Crystal Palace0–1FT · 15:00Leicester
24 Oct 2015 Leicester1–0FT · 15:00Crystal Palace
7 Feb 2015 Leicester0–1FT · 15:00Crystal Palace

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2017-2018

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
9 Leicester 38 12 11 15 −4 47
11 Crystal Palace 38 11 11 16 −10 44

Top scorers 2017-2018

All scorers

Leicester

  1. Jamie Vardy 20
  2. Riyad Mahrez 12
  3. Shinji Okazaki 6

Crystal Palace

  1. Luka Milivojevic 10
  2. Wilfried Zaha 9
  3. Patrick van Aanholt 5