Ipswich Town - 6 Leicster City - 1Matt Holland and Pablo Counago scored twice each to emphatically maintain Ipswich's 100 per cent record this season and inflict a humiliating first defeat of the campaign on Leicester, who were struck by three first-half injury blows.

The victory made it two out of two for Town. Republic of Ireland midfielder Holland struck the first of his brace in first-half stoppage time, a goal which was almost immediately cancelled out by a Jon Stevenson strike for Leicester, and netted again 12 minutes after the restart.

Darren Ambrose made it 3-1, Nigerian substitute Finidi George got in on the act and Counago completed the rout with a double as the Foxes, whose goalkeeper Ian Walker had saved a Marcus Stewart penalty midway through the first half, crumbled disappointingly.

But instead it became one-way traffic after Leicester lost a trio of their most influential players before 40 minutes had elapsed. First of them to leave the field was Northern Ireland defender Gerry Taggart, who missed almost all of last season due to injury and was forced off after 17 minutes.