LUCK TURNED, AND SO DID THE SUPPORTERS

YOU sensed that Claude Puel would be lucky to survive such a damning scoreline and so it proved.

As the Frenchman stood in the corridor begging for a bit of luck to turn things around, moves were already afoot to remove him.

The writing was on the wall: four successive home defeats, unrest among senior players, and scores of empty seat before the end.

Thai owner Top Srivaddhanaprabha reluctantly stuck the knife in just a few hours later and Puel was gone.

Luck was no longer a factor.

To be fair to him – and Leicester’s players – there was no way a 1-4 scoreline was a fair reflection of the game, but that matters little.

The former

Southampton boss would have struggled to survive no matter what the result but this just put the tin hat on.

A freak goal put Leicester behind and, though they got back in it, just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Puel said: “I can understand the noise around me. It is normal for the fans to be worried, I understand this. It is important sometimes to have some luck because in a lot of games we didn’t have any.”

True, the last thing Puel needed was to see a wicked deflection off Michy

Batshuayi fly in to put them a goal behind. He cut a lonely figure, shaking his head in disbelief.

He was punching the air when Jonny Evans hauled Leicester level with a beautifully struck 64th-minute goal but the delight didn’t

last long. Enter Wilfried Zaha.

Zaha (below) helped himself to a couple either side of a penalty by Luka Milivojevic (above) to nail Leicester to the floor.

Evans agreed with Puel when he said Foxes have enjoyed little luck.

“Their goal just before halftime took away our momentum,” he said.

“You use a lot of energy trying to battle back. Then they scored straight from a corner, then a penalty, then another breakaway.”

The former Manchester United star said the frustration of the fans could not be ignored.

“You could hear it at the end. You can always tell when the final whistle goes, you can hear the boos,” he said. “But I think you can tell we are giving everything. We are just not getting the rub of the green.

“We couldn’t believe their first goal. These things can happen in football.

“We were controlling the game at that point and looked comfortable but then they get that goal and you think ‘what’s going on here?’

“We are all shocked and surprised how it unfolded.”