BURNLEY, England (Reuters) – Substitutes James Maddison and Jamie Vardy got here off the bench to attain for Leicester City as they ended Burnley’s mini-revival with a 2-0 win at Turf Moor within the Premier League on Tuesday.
Two wins and a draw of their final three video games meant Sean Dyche’s Burnley would have gotten out of the underside three with victory over the Foxes however Brendan Rodgers’s facet had been deserved winners.
The double substitution within the 72nd minute gave Leicester the additional stage of high quality within the remaining third that they wanted to complete off Burnley.
The pair mixed for the opener when Maddison fired Leicester forward within the 82nd minute, amassing a lay off from Vardy and beating Burnley keeper Nick Pope with an outstanding curling shot.
Vardy, making his return to motion after two months out with harm, made certain of the three factors with an easy header after being picked out by an ideal cross from Harvey Barnes.
Leicester’s first win in 2022 strikes them as much as twelfth place on 30 factors whereas Burnley stay in 18th place on 21 factors.
Vardy was delighted to have discovered the goal and bagged three factors on his return.
“It has been a very long time coming. It is hard getting an enormous harm. To come again and to be concerned in each objectives and get the win, it is rather good,” mentioned the ahead.
“I got here on, tried to make that impression which I managed to do and we took the three factors. It feels large. I feel performances have been getting higher and higher,” he added.
Burnley had keeper Pope to thank for protecting them on stage phrases for therefore lengthy.
The England worldwide saved out early efforts from Ricardo Pereira and Patson Daka and then produced an outstanding full-stretch save to maintain out a Barnes effort simply earlier than Leicester took the lead.
Burnley had loads of strain however too few openings with their greatest likelihood to take the lead falling to Maxwel Cornet who poked huge when confronted with the advancing Kasper Schmeichel.
Wout Weghorst missed an amazing likelihood to equalise after Maddison’s opener however fired over the bar at the again publish from a nook.
(Reporting by Simon Evans; Editing by Toby Davis)
