By Opta Analyst | Created at 2024-11-23 14:49:59 | Updated at 2024-11-23 18:19:01
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Goals from Nicolas Jackson and Enzo Fernández were enough for Chelsea to seal another win in 2024-25. Look back at the key moments from the Premier League clash at the King Power Stadium with our Leicester vs Chelsea stats page.
Chelsea continued their strong start to 2024-25 with a 2-1 away win over Leicester City thanks to goals from Nicolas Jackson and Enzo Fernández.
Jackson scored his seventh Premier League goal of the season, which is already halfway to last season’s tally (14). His first-half strike was expertly placed past Mads Hermansen on the volley after Fernández had found him in the box.
The Senegalese forward has now scored 24 goals for Chelsea in 57 games across all competitions since the start of last season – only Cole Palmer (32) has more for the club in that time.
Fernández doubled Chelsea’s tally in the 75th minute with a goal of his own. After Hermansen saved well from Jackson’s header, the ball popped up for the Argentine midfielder to head the ball into the back of the net to seal Chelsea’s win.
It was his first goal for the club since February, while it was the first time that he’d both scored and assisted in a competitive match for the Blues.
Leicester scored a consolation goal from the penalty spot deep into injury time through substitute Jordan Ayew, but that was their only shot on target in the entire match.
With this victory, Chelsea have now won more points away in the Premier League this season (13 in six games) than they have at Stamford Bridge (nine in six games).
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Leicester vs Chelsea stats from their Premier League meeting.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Leicester vs Chelsea: Post-Match Facts
- Leicester have lost consecutive Premier League games for the second time this season, while they’ve lost two in a row at home for the first time since April 2023 (four games).
- Nicolas Jackson scored his seventh Premier League goal of the season, his fifth away from home. Since May, only Erling Haaland (18) has scored more goals in the competition than the Blues’ striker (11) while no player has scored more away goals than Jackson (5) in 2024-25.
- Enzo Fernández has both scored (1) and assisted (1) for the first time in a Chelsea shirt, while he’s assisted five goals in his last three appearances in all competitions, indeed only Mohamed Salah (10), Buyako Saka (7) and Bruno Fernandes (7) have more assists among Premier League players than the Argentinian (6) this season.
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