Maddison and Vardy complete Foxes fightback
Huddersfield Town are still without a win this season and are bottom of the Premier League after squandering an early lead to lose 3-1 at Leicester City.
Mathias Jorgensen put the visitors in front early on with only their third goal of the campaign, but Kelechi Iheanacho quickly equalised, marking his recall to the team with a goal. Second-half goals from James Maddison and Jamie Vardy respectively sealed the victory for Leicester, who returned to winning ways following successive defeats. Burnley ended their miserable start to the season in style with a thumping 4-0 win over in-form Bournemouth at Turf Moor to climb off the bottom of the table.
Four straight defeats and only one point from five games for last season’s seventh-placed finishers was their worst start to a top-flight term for nearly a century. Bournemouth, by contrast, arrived in the top five after their best ever opening to a Premier League season, but quickfire goals from Matej Vydra on his full debut and Aaron Lennon eased the nerves. Substitute Ashley Barnes then added a late double to make it 4-0.
Aleksandar Mitrovic’s second-half equaliser earned Fulham a 1-1 draw at home to highflying Watford. The Serbia striker flicked home his fifth goal of the season with 12 minutes remaining at Craven Cottage to deny the visitors a fifth win from six Premier League games.
Andre Gray had opened the scoring inside two minutes, but the Hornets had to settle for a point after spurning a number of chances to double their advantage. Whites boss Slavisa Jokanovic, facing his former club for the first time since leaving Vicarage Road in 2015, almost saw his side snatch a late winner when Mitrovic’s header was tipped on to the bar. Tottenham coasted past Brighton in a 2-1 win at the Amex Stadium. Spurs had lost three games in a row for the first time under boss Mauricio Pochettino, but put things right in soaking conditions, with Harry Kane and Erik Lamela scoring the goals. Anthony Knockaert got a late goal back, but the visitors survived to move back up to fifth.
Newcastle’s protests turned ugly when a bottle thrown on to the Selhurst Park pitch struck Crystal Palace’s Aaron Wan-bissaka in the two clubs’ 0-0 draw.
The travelling fans met owner Mike Ashley’s first appearance at a Newcastle game since May 2017 by launching sustained chanting against his stewardship of the Tyneside club.