Leicester have topped the table for much of the season, but Monday's success was just their third win in eight Championship games.
Leicester reignited their bid for automatic promotion to the Premier League with a 3-1 win at home to Norwich on Monday.Victory at the King Power Stadium meant the Foxes returned to the top of English football’s second-tier Championship, if merely for a few hours before promotion rivals Ipswich and Leeds are in action later in the day.
Goals from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy enabled Leicester to complete a comeback after Gabriel Sara’s fourth goal in as many games gave Norwich the lead.Leicester have topped the table for much of the season, but Monday’s success was just their third win in eight Championship games.
Defeat left Norwich in sixth position — still in contention to reach the post-season play-offs that will decide which club gets the third and final promotion spot. It looked as it might be a good day for the Canaries when Sara put them ahead from a corner in the 20th minute. But Dewsbury-Hall’s first goal since January drew Leicester level 13 minutes later and from then on the Foxes started to get a grip on the game.Mavididi made it 2-1 just after the hour mark with a fine curling shot into the far corner before former England striker Vardy, one of the stars of Leicester’s shock Premier League title triumph eight years ago, wrapped up the points in stoppage time with a powerful strike after Harry Winks’ initial effort was blocked.
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