FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Leicester City
4 - 1 Full time
Watford

King Power Stadium · Leicester, Leicestershire

Lineups

Leicester City4-2-3-1
DW12Ward
MA11⚽Albrighton
HC20Choudhury
JV23Vestergaard
VD38Daley-Campbell
YT8⚽Tielemans
LB62Brunt
AP17Pérez
JM10⚽Maddison
HB7⚽Barnes
AL37Lookman
DB26Bachmann
JN2Ngakia
CC15Cathcart
FS31Sierralta
JM42Morris
TC8Cleverley
MS19Sissoko
OT18Tufan
AF17Fletcher
JH29Hernández
JP10⚽Pedro
Watford4-3-3

Leicester City substitutes

1 Kasper Schmeichel
41 Jakub Stolarczyk
45 Ben Nelson
49 Kasey McAteer 6.3
74 Sammy Braybrooke
77 Will Alves
54 Wanya Marcal-Madivadua 6.7

Unavailable: Harry Souttar (injury)

Watford substitutes

35 Robert Elliot
48 Derek Agyakwa
14 Hassane Kamara
12 Ken Sema 6.5
16 Dan Gosling 6.2
33 Juraj Kucka 6.2
45 Kamil Conteh 6.5
47 Shaqai Forde 5.7
7 Joshua King

Unavailable: Giorgi Chakvetadze (injury), Pierre Dwomoh (injury), Vivaldo Semedo (injury)

Match events

7'Youri Tielemans (penalty) 1 - 0⚽
25'James Maddison 2 - 0⚽
27'Joao Pedro 2 - 1⚽
Second half
54'Harvey Barnes 3 - 1⚽
85'Marc Albrighton 4 - 1⚽

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 8 January 2022, 15:00 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

14Leicester City wins2Draws8Watford wins

24 past meetings on record. Biggest Leicester City win: Leicester City 3–0 Watford (2017). Biggest Watford win: Watford 1–5 Leicester City (2022).

10 Feb 2024Watford 1 - 2 Leicester CityChampionship
25 Nov 2023Leicester City 2 - 0 WatfordChampionship
15 May 2022Watford 1 - 5 Leicester CityPremier League
28 Nov 2021Leicester City 4 - 2 WatfordPremier League
20 Jun 2020Watford 1 - 1 Leicester CityPremier League
4 Dec 2019Leicester City 2 - 0 WatfordPremier League
3 Mar 2019Watford 2 - 1 Leicester CityPremier League
1 Dec 2018Leicester City 2 - 0 WatfordPremier League
20 Jan 2018Leicester City 2 - 0 WatfordPremier League
26 Dec 2017Watford 2 - 1 Leicester CityPremier League
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6 May 2017Leicester City 3 - 0 WatfordPremier League
19 Nov 2016Watford 2 - 1 Leicester CityPremier League
5 Mar 2016Watford 0 - 1 Leicester CityPremier League
7 Nov 2015Leicester City 2 - 1 WatfordPremier League
8 Feb 2014Leicester City 2 - 2 WatfordChampionship
2 Nov 2013Watford 0 - 3 Leicester CityChampionship
12 May 2013Watford 3 - 1 Leicester CityChampionship Playoff
9 May 2013Leicester City 1 - 0 WatfordChampionship Playoff
26 Apr 2013Leicester City 1 - 2 WatfordChampionship
3 Nov 2012Watford 2 - 1 Leicester CityChampionship
14 Feb 2012Watford 3 - 2 Leicester CityChampionship
19 Oct 2011Leicester City 2 - 0 WatfordChampionship
25 Apr 2011Leicester City 4 - 2 WatfordChampionship
4 Dec 2010Watford 3 - 2 Leicester CityChampionship