Nothing tardy about Vardy as Foxes stay in hunt
LEICESTER City set a club record of eight successive top-flight wins after two goals from Jamie Vardy helped them to an impressive 4-1 Premier League victory at Aston Villa yesterday.
The result left Leicester in second place in the standings on 38 points from 16 games, eight adrift of runaway leaders Liverpool and six ahead of third-placed champions Manchester City.
The league’s top scorer Vardy fired Leicester ahead with his 15th goal of the season and Kelechi Iheanacho made it 2-0 with a deft finish before Jack Grealish pulled one back for Villa on the stroke of half-time.
Centre-back Jonny Evans restored Leicester’s two-goal advantage with a looping header from 10 metres shortly after the break, rising above his marker to meet a James Maddison corner.
The effervescent Maddison, who tormented the home team’s defence all afternoon, shaved the post with a shot from the edge of the area in the 67th minute as 2016 champions Leicester continued to dominate.
Vardy put the icing on the cake for the rampant visitors in the 76th minute after he raced clear of
Matt Targett from the halfway line and drove the ball past goalkeeper Tom Heaton into the bottom right corner.
Meanwhile, Sheffield United wing backs Enda Stevens and George Baldock scored in three second-half minutes as the Blades came from behind to defeat a spirited Norwich City 2-1.
And centre-back Federico Fernandez smashed home a rebound two minutes from time as goal-shy Newcastle United came back from a goal down to beat visitors Southampton 2-1.
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