VARDY TOASTS DRINKY
EVERYEVERY KICK, KICK, EVERY EVERY GOAL, GOAL, EVERY EVERY GAME GAME Foxes duo are on same wavelength
GOAL ace Jamie Vardy says there’s a certain telepathy going on with team-mate Danny Drinkwater.
Vardy rattled in his first goal of the season – and it was all down to an astonishing pass from the Foxes midfielder.
Drinkwater dinked a 40-yard pass inside Jordi Amat, who Vardy skinned before he blasted the ball in off a post.
Vardy believes there’s no one better than Drinkwater at the moment.
Little wonder everyone connected with the champions still shakes their heads at Drinkwater being binned from England’s Euro 2016 squad.
Vardy said: “It’s getting a bit too frequent now isn’t it – Drinky to Vards again!
“I was playing right on the leash and so it was the perfect ball for me to get past the defender and just smash the ball in.
“He’s carried on exactly where he left off last season. He’s not stopped.”
Vardy revealed the reason why he ran towards the visiting supporters, ears cupped and pointing to his name.
Fluffed
He said: “Every time I got the ball or got tackled they were cheering so I just thought I’d give ’em a bit back and showed them the back of my shirt when I scored.”
Vardy’s goal set Leicester on their way. Wes Morgan fired home a second early in the second half and when Amat brought down Shinji Okazaki, Leicester should have sown it up.
But Riyad Mahrez fluffed the penalty – nothing new there – and Swansea made the Foxes sweat after Leroy Fer pulled one back with 10 minutes to go.
Surely the time has come to boot Mahrez off spot-kick duties. He missed two last season in games that were drawn and is not convincing.
This was more like Leicester and the only blot on things was keeper Kasper Schmeichel pulling up with a persistent hernia problem which he’ll have surgery on today.
Swans boss Francesco Guidolin hadn’t seen Vardy ‘live’ before and admits it’s quite a scary sight.
Guidolin said: “He’s not only fast, but technically and tactically clever. He will cause problems for opponents in the Champions League.
“He is an international player and very, very strong. We can’t complain. Leicester were better than us.” 7 (Zieler LEICESTER (4-4-2): Schmeichel 7, Fuchs 7; 57, 6); Simpson 7, Morgan 7, Huth 7 (Musa Amartey 7, DRINKWATER 8, Albrighton 79), Vardy 8. Subs: 75), Mahrez 5; Okazaki 7 (Ulloa Hernandez, Chilwell, King, Gray. League, UP NEXT: Liverpool (a), Premier Saturday, September 10. 7; Naughton SWANSEA (4-2-3-1): Fabianski 5; Cork 6 5, Fernandez 6, Amat 4, Kingsley 7 (Montero 59, (McBurnie 86), FER 8; Sigurdsson 6); Llorente 6. 6), Barrow 6, Routledge 4 (Ki 59, Rangel, Fulton. Subs: Nordfelt, Van Der Hoorn, League, Sunday, UP NEXT: Chelsea (h), Premier September 11. Referee: Roger East 7. his only YOUR TURN: Which striker grabbed in Leicester’s 4-0 two-goal haul of the campaign season? home win against Swansea last DANNY DRINKWATER Pass master JORDI AMAT Caught out