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Commentary

1¹ A good effort from ALARIO scraped the top of the crossbar. 8¹ BARNES drilled a deadly shot just wide from just outside the area. 11¹ GOAL!! A shot from BUENO was cleared off the line only for DECORDOVA-REID to fire the ball in. (1-0 Leicester City) 15¹ A shot from BARNES held no problem for the 'keeper. 24¹ GOAL!! A twenty-five yard free-kick was expertly blasted into the roof of the net by EGGESTEIN. (1-1) 26¹ TELLA shot wide. 39¹ A poor shot from BARNES trickled agonisingly wide. 43¹ IHEANACHO beat FOSU-MENSAH and drove the ball to BARNES who fired his shot wide. 44¹ GOAL!! A long drive from ALEIX deflected off the shins of VESTERGAARD and into his own net. (2-1 Bayer Leverkusen) 1² A deadly effort from IHEANACHO was tipped over by the Bayer Leverkusen 'keeper. 2² A useful ball from VESTERGAARD on the right fell to CASTAGNE who sliced his shot wide. 4² WARD was able to claw away a tame header from ALEIX. 8² HUGO SOTELO worked the ball to IHEANACHO, BARNES latched onto his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper. 11² GOAL!! After being forced wide JOÃO MÁRIO was able to hammer the ball in from the tightest of angles. (3-1 Bayer Leverkusen) 22² A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming GREEN. 24² EGGESTEIN chipped the ball to TELLA who touched it over the bar. 25² A penalty box scramble resulted in AYOZE driving a low shot over. 29² ALARIO raced past BARNES but blasted the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 33² GOAL!! A patient Leicester City side were rewarded with a lovely shot from CASTAGNE. (3-2 Bayer Leverkusen) 37² BARNES ran onto a delightful ball from GUEYE but toe-poked his shot wide of the righthand post. 42² GRAY scuffed an easy chance. 46² JOÃO MÁRIO rifled a simple chance past the near post.

Bayer Leverkusen   League position: 14 Home league form: WWXX Overall league form: LWLXWLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Etienne GREEN 7  1 6  Danny WARD Connor BRADLEY 8  2 6  Bobby DECORDOVA-REID (c)Ricardo RODRIGUEZ 7  3 7  Timothy CASTAGNE Maximilian EGGESTEIN 8  4 6  Idrissa GUEYE(c) Luca CALDIROLA 7  5 7  Santiago BUENO Timothy FOSU-MENSAH 7  6 6½ Jannik VESTERGAARD JOÃO MÁRIO Naval 7  7 6½ HUGO SOTELO Gómez Nathan TELLA 7  8 7  Harvey BARNES (p)Lucas ALARIO 7  9 6½ Kelechi IHEANACHO(p) (f)ALEIX García 7  10 6  Demarai GRAY(f) Ihlas BEBOU 6½ 11 6  AYOZE Pérez Manager Jardell KANGA    12    Fábio CARVALHO Niklas LOMB    13    Daniel IVERSEN Jens STAGE    14    Rayan AÏT-NOURI Aaron HICKEY    15    Nampalys MENDY ARTHUR Augusto    16    Matt TARGETT

Leicester City   League position: 15 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: WLWLLWLX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Bayer Leverkusen 3 Leicester City 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 30,078, Stadium: BayArena, Referee: Massimo Chiesa 6) Eggestein 24¹, Vestergaard 44¹ (og), João Mário 11² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Decordova-Reid 11¹, Castagne 33²             5 3 6 16 7 4 5 6 8 9 13 15 2 4 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Maximilian Eggestein ¶