Ghana defender Daniel Amartey gets rare start in Leicester City defeat at Everton

Published on: 09 April 2017
Ghana defender Daniel Amartey gets rare start in Leicester City defeat at Everton
Daniel Amartey among Leicester City starting team

Ghana defender Daniel Amartey was handed a rare start of Leicester City's 4-2 defeat at Everton on Sunday as the Foxes made some changes in their starting team for the English Premier League game.

Leicester City have made five changes from the victory over Sunderland for their Premier League clash with Everton at Goodison Park.

With a Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, Craig Shakespeare rested several players which gave Amartey the chance to start.

Full-backs Danny Simpson and Christian Fuchs dropped out in favour of Daniel Amartey and Ben Chilwell, Andy King replaced Wilfred Ndidi in midfield, with Marc Albrighton in for Riyad Mahrez on the wing, and Shinji Okazaki swapped for Islam Slimani in attack.

However, the changes did not produce the desired result as Everton registered their seventh straight home league win with Romelu Lukaku scoring twice to check Leicester's renaissance under boss Craig Shakespeare.

Tom Davies poked in for the hosts after 30 seconds, before Leicester rallied with a slick counter-attacking goal from Islam Slimani and a superb free-kick from Marc Albrighton.

But Leicester, much changed before Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid, never looked comfortable.

Lukaku headed in a Ross Barkley cross to draw Everton level and Phil Jagielka was allowed too much space at a corner as the Toffees reached the break ahead.

Lukaku drilled in from close range after the interval and the withdrawal of the bright Demarai Gray and striker Jamie Vardy seemed to signal Leicester's attentions turning towards Europe.

City (4-4-2): Schmeichel; Amartey, Huth, Benalouane, Chilwell; Albrighton, King, Drinkwater, Gray; Slimani, Vardy. Subs: Zieler, Simpson, Wasilewski, Kapustka, Mahrez, Musa, Ulloa.

Everton (4-3-3): Joel; Holgate, Pennington, Jagielka, Baines; Schneiderlin, Gueye, Davies; Barkley, Lukaku, Mirallas. Subs: Stekelenburg, Barry, Valencia, Williams, Lookman, Calvert-Lewin, Kenny.

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