Leicester City 1 Swansea City 1
King Power… Saturday February 3rd… 3pm
Attendance: 31,179
Ticket: £36 – Programme: £3.50
A case of two points dropped, and no favours for Newcastle, in a game that Leicester should have had won by half time…
A mixture of disallowed goals, goal line clearances and poor finishing meant that Leicester went in at the interval only a single goal to the good; a Jamie Vardy strike in the 17th minute. So when they started the second half slowly, Swansea took the opportunity to press, and subsequently to equalise. Federico Fernandez scoring with a straight forward header in the 53rd minute, after losing his marker from a corner…
As they’d done at St. James’ Park, Swansea brought on Wilfred Bony in an attempt to find a winner. But it was Leicester that pressed harder in the closing minutes, before ultimately falling short…
Leicester City; Schmeichel, Simpson (Okazaki 80), Dragovic, Maguire, Fuchs, Silva (James 68), Ndidi, Diabate (YC), Iheanacho (Gray 68), Albrighton, Vardy
Not Used; Chilwell, Hamer, Iborra, Benalouane
Goals; Vardy (17)
Swansea City; Fabianski, Van Der Hoorn, Fernandez, Mawson, Naughton, Fer (Carroll 36), Sung-Yeung, Dyer (Bony 71), Clucas, Ayew (Routledge 90+2)
Not Used; Abraham, Narsingh, Nordfeldt, Bartley
Goals; Fernandez (53)
As usual, more pictures on flickr…