Premier League Boxing Day: 5 Best Premier League boxing day matches of this decade

2. Leicester City 2-1 Manchester City, 2018

Leicester City is probably the most dynamic team in the Premier League. It may not be considered as a big club but it surely has the capability of killing a big club on their day.

Thus, the champions of England last season struggled against the Foxes and kind of helped Liverpool to achieve their dream to come true, but the Citizens were good enough to recover from the fatal blows given by Leicester City.

Last season, Manchester City faced Leicester City on the boxing day and triumphed over the Champions by 2-1 to make an exciting encounter.

Initially, Manchester City scored the opening goal with a typically worked goal that saw Bernardo Silva prod home following Sergio Aguero’s through-ball.

But it was soon recovered, as Marc Albrighton scored the equalizer after getting a cross by Jamie Vardy. Then both teams got involved in an intense match, only to see Ricardo Pereira smashing the ball into the net from the right edge of the box.

The match was very even, although Manchester City enjoyed 66% possession of the ball, in return Leicester City made 10 shots to Manchester Citys 11.

Now, on this boxing day, Leicester City has to face Liverpool, over where the title is once again at the stake.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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