Tough Enough, Leicester City Played A Draw At Home To AS Roma

AS Roma's Matias Vina attempts to get past Leicester's Ayoze Perez in the first leg of the Conference League semifinals on April 29, 2022. BETWEEN/Reuters/PAUL CHILDS

JAKARTA - Leicester City drew 1-1 with AS Roma in the UEFA Conference League semifinal first leg at the King Power Stadium on Friday, 29 April early WIB.

Roma took the lead thanks to a Lorenzo Pellegrini goal before Leicester leveled through a Gianluca Mancini own goal.

The duel between the two teams was tight in the first 10 minutes. The Giallorossi scored the first goal in the 15th minute after Lorenzi Pellegrini finished off Nicola Zalewski's cross.

Both teams played quite tough and Leicester City continued to try to improve attacks to equalize. However, until the end of the first half, no goals were created again.

After the break, Leicester City dominated the attack and the Foxes finally got the equalizer in the 67th minute through Ademola Lookman's effort who used a pass from Harvey Barnes, according to the official UEFA website. Line-up: Leicester City (4-3-3): Schmeichel ; Ricardo Pereira, Fofana, J Evans, Castagne (Justin 21'); Maddison, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall; Albrighton (Barnes 62'), Vardy (Iheanacho 62'), Lookman (Perez 83').

AS Roma (3-5-2): Rui Patricio; Mancini, Smalling, Ibanez; Karsdorp, Mkhitaryan (Veretout 57'), Cristante, Zalewski (Vina 85'); Zaniolo (Oliveira 69'), Pellegrini (Afena-Gyan 85'); Abraham. This was reported by Antara.