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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 4 (setup 4, season 27)
Colchester United
v.
Leicester City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Freddie WOODMAN17Kasper SCHMEICHEL
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Cuco MARTINA2Danny SIMPSON
Ben MEE37Christian FUCHS
Florin GARDOS74Vicente IBORRA de la Fuente
Gareth McAULEY57Aleksandar DRAGOVIC
Marco 'Davide' FARAONI67Wes MORGAN
Steve SCHUMACHER677Wifred NDIDI
Igor VETOKELE8Marc ALBRIGHTON
Jay BOTHROYD98Jamie VARDY
Joe MASON10Islam SLIMANI
Joshua KING7117Shinji OKAZAKI
Manager
Pat BALDWIN12Robert HUTH
Jason STEELE13Eldin JAKUPOVIC
Theo ROBINSON14Andy KING
Moses ASHIKODI156Ben CHILWELL
16Daniel AMARTEY

Colchester United 1 Leicester City 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 7,503, Stadium: Community Stadium, Referee: Mark HAYWOOD 6½)
13 KingScorers30 Slimani, 84 Fuchs
Substitutions85 Morgan <=> Chilwell
Sendings off
4 WoodmanBookings
4Corners3
12Fouls2
6Offsides9
3Shots on6
6Shots off8
9Total shots14
2Shots saved3
42%Possession58%
Man of the match: Jamie VARDY
4The referee cautions WOODMAN for a clumsy challenge.
6MARTINA headed the ball wide of the righthand post from the edge of the box.
7VETOKELE beat three Leicester City players and drove a great chance inches wide.
10Uncertainty in the Colchester United defence enabled FUCHS to crack an effort inches over.
11The motionless SCHMEICHEL stared in disbelief as a backpass from SIMPSON fell just over.
13GOAL!! A neat one-two left KING clear and he made no mistake by instinctively lobbing the ball past the oncoming SCHMEICHEL. (1-0 Colchester United)
18ALBRIGHTON drilled a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
25GARDOS ran onto a great ball from MASON but fired his shot wide of the righthand post.
27The Colchester United 'keeper was able to claw away a tame shot from OKAZAKI.
28ALBRIGHTON made space on the right and knocked the ball to VARDY who clipped the ball wide.
28A penalty box scramble resulted in FUCHS tapping a low shot wide.
29A shot from BOTHROYD was smothered by SCHMEICHEL.
30GOAL!! A tackle from MASON gave Leicester City a free-kick thirty yards out which SLIMANI fired past the Colchester United 'keeper. (1-1)
45+1BOTHROYD beat ALBRIGHTON and blasted the ball to MCAULEY who blasted his shot wide.
 
50ALBRIGHTON clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Colchester United 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
56A header from BOTHROYD was headed off the line by SIMPSON.
60A clever pass from IBORRA, was drove goalbound by OKAZAKI only for the Colchester United 'keeper to claw away.
63A free-kick from ALBRIGHTON went just beyond the near post.
66A pin-point pass fell to SIMPSON and his left foot shot flew narrowly wide.
72IBORRA's shot was well held by the Colchester United 'keeper.
81NDIDI shot wide.
84GOAL!! SLIMANI drove a powerful shot against the woodwork with FUCHS tapping in the rebound. (2-1 Leicester City)
86A good effort from BOTHROYD scraped the outside of the post.
89OKAZAKI played the ball to VARDY who nodded it over the bar.