Leicester, Sept 16: Leicester City defeat Leeds United 4-0 in their English Premier League match. A spectacular volley from Lilian Nalis, a double from Paul Dickov and a header from Jamie Scowcroft gave Leicester City an easy 4-0 win over a poor Leeds United side in the premier league on Monday (September 15). Leicester's first win of the season takes them up seven places to 11th, level on five points with five other clubs including Leeds, who slipped three places to 14th. Leicester made five changes with Marcus Bent and Craig Hignett given their first full outing, while Leeds also had two debutants in the shape of Brazilian World Cup winner Roque Junior and fellow defender Didier Domi.

The home side took the lead on 20 minutes when Nalis struck a dipping left-foot volley into the top right-hand corner of Paul Robinson's net from 25 metres for his first goal since joining from Italian club Chievo Verona.


The home side doubled their lead three minutes later when striker Dickov chested the ball down just inside the penalty area and rifled a low right-foot volley that flew past the despairing dive of Robinson.

Leeds manager Peter Reid tried to freshen up his side by introducing Cameroon midfielder Salomon Olembe for Domi just nine minutes after the break but he was unable to fashion a way back for United.


Instead, it was Leicester who looked like adding to their goal tally with Robinson tipping over a header from Scowcroft and full-back Ben Thatcher sending another powerful header against the bar.



With 20 minutes to go Reid introduced Aaron Lennon, who became the youngest premier league player on his debut at Tottenham Hotspur last month aged 16 years and 129 days, and Lucas Radebe then replaced Roque Junior with 10 minutes left.

But Dickov rounded off a slick passing move to grab his second goal of the night after turning a flat-footed Radebe just outside the penalty area before curling a right-foot shot into the bottom corner of the net.

Scowcroft wrapped up Leicester's first win back in the top flight by rising unmarked on the edge of the six metre box to head home a Muzzy Izzet free kick for their fourth goal.


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