Leicester City 1 Sunderland 0: Highlights after James Justin goal and big Dan Neil penalty appeal
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Sunderland were beaten 1-0 by Championship leaders Leicester at the King Power Stadium.
Foxes defender James Juston scored the only goal of the game when he headed home Kienan Dewsbury-Hall’s corner in the 12th minute.
Sunderland then had a strong penalty appeal turned down on the stroke of half-time when Dan Neil was brought down by Wout Faes.
Here’s how the game played out:
RECAP: Leicester 1 (Justin, 12) Sunderland 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Huggins (Cirkin, 64), Ballard, O’Nien, Hume, Neil (Hemir, 90+3), Ekwah (Rigg, 64), Roberts, Bellingham (Pritchard, 74), Clarke, Burstow (Ba, 64)
- Subs: Bishop, Seelt, Triantis, Cirkin, Ba, Rigg, Rusyn, Pritchard, Hemir
- Leicester XI: Hermansen, Pereira, Faes, Vestergaard, Justin, Winks, Casadei, Dewsbury-Hall, Fatawu (Albrighton, 80), Mavididi, Iheanacho (Vardy, 68)
- Subs: Ward, Coady, Souttar, Choudhury, Marcal, Stolarczyk, Albrighton, Daka, Vardy
87’ Justin down
Justin is down after the Leicester full-back was caught in the face by Ba.
He’s going to have to come off here after drawing blood.
83’ Huge chance for Ba
Mowbray has his hands on his head after a huge chance for his side.
Pritchard did well to keep an attack alive and slide the ball to Ba inside the Leicester box but the latter curled his effort over from point-blank range.
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