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Commentary
SANTA CRUZ ran onto a delightful ball from LANSBURY but hit his shot wide of the righthand post.
A corner bobbled toward SANTA CRUZ who fired an effort just beyond the near post.
BUTTON dived to his left to block a fierce drive from Hartlepool United's HENRIKSEN.
12¹GOAL!! After HENRIKSEN was bundled over MUSSELWHITE waved play-on and BRAHIMI went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Hartlepool United)
14¹GOAL!! A deep cross from ALFARO on the right was nodded home by SANTA CRUZ at the far post. (1-1)
16¹A cross from HENRIKSEN left STRINIC in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
24¹GOAL!! LANSBURY drove an amazing shot against the post with COLBACK tapping in the rebound. (2-1 Leicester City)
29¹A useful ball from COLBACK on the right found SANTA CRUZ who mishit his shot wide.
41¹GOAL!! A long ball from GROSICKI down the middle bobbled toward the lurking BRAHIMI who placed a left foot shot in off the post. (2-2)
TEN VOORDE fired a looping shot over the bar from twenty yards out.
PASQUATO beat KITTEL and placed the ball to ISLA who dragged his shot wide.
A free-kick from SANTA CRUZ raced wide.
14²A poor strike from AURIER trickled agonisingly wide.
17²TEN VOORDE rushed through the Leicester City defence but shot straight at BUTTON.
18²GROSICKI was put clear by D'ALESSANDRO and he nutmegged BUTTON but glanced his shot just beyond the near post.
19²PECNIK headed inches wide.
21²LANSBURY made space on the right and dragged the ball to BOSTOCK who touched the ball wide.
23²A pin-point pass found ISLA and his right foot effort raced narrowly over.
24²A looping shot from PECNIK was pushed round the post by COLOMBI.
25²SANTA CRUZ floated the ball to ALFARO who nodded it wide.
31²GOAL!! A long goal-kick from STRINIC caught the Leicester City defence napping and TEN VOORDE raced through to easily score. (3-2 Hartlepool United)
35²A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing Hartlepool United 'keeper.
37²A perfect shot from SANTA CRUZ was dealt with by a fine block from the 'keeper.
38²MUSSELWHITE books SANTA CRUZ for dangerous play against MADSEN.
43²MUSSELWHITE books TEN VOORDE for a clumsy challenge.

 
Leicester City
 
League position: 14
Home league form: WXWW
Overall league form: LWLWXLWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
David BUTTON1Simone COLOMBI
Mauricio ISLA2Serge AURIER
Jack COLBACK3Ivan STRINIC(c)
Henri LANSBURY4Markus HENRIKSEN
Federico FAZIO5Kelvin WILSON
Aleksandar LUKOVIC6Kim MADSEN
Alejandro ALFARO7Sonny KITTEL
John BOSTOCK8Yacine BRAHIMI
(c,p)Roque SANTA CRUZ9Rick TEN VOORDE(p)
(f)Nejc PECNIK10Libor KOZAK(f)
Cristian PASQUATO11Kamil GROSICKI
Manager
Jose BAXTER  12  Fredrik BERGE
David CORNELL  13  Vid BELEC
Mitja NOVINIC  14  Maksim KANUNNIKOV
Roger JOHNSON  15Marco D'ALESSANDRO
Ivan FATIC  16  Mushaga BAKENGA
 
Hartlepool United
 
League position: 6
Away league form: LOLL
Overall league form: LXOWWLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Leicester City 2 Hartlepool United 3
(Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 32,459, Stadium: King Power Stadium, Referee: Paul Musselwhite 6)

Santa Cruz 14¹, Colback 24¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Brahimi 12¹, Brahimi 41¹, Ten Voorde 31²
 BrahimióD'Alessandro 0²
  
Santa Cruz 38²Ten Voorde 43²
53
613
21
55
94
149
32
54%46%
Man of the match: Roque Santa Cruz