FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Newport County
2 - 1 Full time
Leicester City

Rodney Parade · Newport (Casnewydd)

Lineups

Newport County4-2-3-1
JD1Day
TH21↓67'Hornby-Forbes
FF5Franks
MD28Demetriou
VN44Neufville
SB17Bennett
MD8↓86'Dolan
RW7Willmott
PA9⚽Amond
AS42Semenyo
JM11⚽↓77'Matt
DW12Ward
DS2↓60'Simpson
WM5Morgan
JE6Evans
CF28Fuchs
HC38Choudhury
MJ22↓72'James
MA11Albrighton
SO20↓46'Okazaki
RG31⚽Ghezzal
KI8Iheanacho
Leicester City4-2-3-1

Newport County substitutes

2 David Pipe 6.4 ↑67'
15 Tyreeq Bakinson 5.9 ↑77'
25 Mark O'Brien ↑86'
18 Jay Foulston
16 Josh Sheehan
10 Keanu Marsh-Brown
30 Nick Townsend

Coach: Michael Flynn

Leicester City substitutes

10 James Maddison 6.6 ↑46'
7 Demarai Gray 6.5 ↑60'
37 Andy King 5.9 ↑72'
4 Caglar Söyüncü
17 Eldin Jakupovic
24 Nampalys Mendy
14 Ricardo Pereira

Coach: Claude Puel

Match events

10'Jamille Matt assist: Robbie Willmott 1 - 0⚽
45'Shinji Okazaki
Second half
46'↑ James Maddison ↓ Shinji Okazaki⇄
60'↑ Demarai Gray ↓ Danny Simpson⇄
67'↑ David Pipe ↓ Tyler Hornby-Forbes⇄
72'↑ Andy King ↓ Matthew James⇄
77'↑ Tyreeq Bakinson ↓ Jamille Matt⇄
82'Rachid Ghezzal 1 - 1⚽
85'Padraig Amond (penalty) 2 - 1⚽
86'↑ Mark O'Brien ↓ Matthew Dolan⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 6 January 2019, 16:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

0Newport County wins0Draws1Leicester City wins

1 past meetings on record. Biggest Newport County win: Leicester City 3–0 Newport County (2022).

8 Nov 2022Leicester City 3 - 0 Newport CountyEFL Cup