Preston North End 2–1 Leicester City — Championship 2025/26 Match Stats

Championship · 2025Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 14:00 UTCDeepdale

Preston North End

2–1Historical match

Leicester City

A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Preston North End won 2–1.

Shots: 1414
Shots on target: 42
Expected goals: 2.480.92
Possession: 40%60%

Full time

What the match recorded

Preston North End beat Leicester City 2–1. Recorded in this match (Preston North End – Leicester City): shots 14–14, shots on target 4–2, expected goals 2.48–0.92, possession 40%–60%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

This match

Match statistics

Shots14 shots14 shotsPreston North End 14 shots, Leicester City 14 shots
Shots on target4 shots2 shotsPreston North End 4 shots, Leicester City 2 shots
Expected goals2.48 xG0.92 xGPreston North End 2.48 xG, Leicester City 0.92 xG
Possession40%60%Preston North End 40%, Leicester City 60%
Corners6 corners4 cornersPreston North End 6 corners, Leicester City 4 corners
Fouls11 fouls7 foulsPreston North End 11 fouls, Leicester City 7 fouls

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

off target
on target
goal
penalty
size = xG

Preston North End: 14 shots, 4 on target, 2.47 xG. Leicester City: 14 shots, 2 on target, 0.93 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: Preston North End 2.47 xG · Leicester City 0.93 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

0Preston North End

0Draws

2Leicester City

29 Apr 2024Preston North End — Leicester City · Championship0–3

4 Oct 2023Leicester City — Preston North End · Championship3–0

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Matches in previous 14 days · Both teams: 1 match

7 daysRest before fixtureprevious completed fixtures · 1/15.94 days

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade C · Limited evidenceLimited evidence — limited

Season samples2 / 2home / away teams

Recent samples2 / 2last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

At least one team has fewer than the configured season sample.
At least one team has an incomplete last-five window.
Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: goals_for, goals_against, xg_for, xg_against, shots, shots_on_target, possession, corners, cards, fouls.
The completed-match sample is too small for broad style conclusions.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 18:00 UTC · analysis-v4