Burnley 0 Leicester City 2
James Maddison and Jamie Vardy came off the bench to deliver Leicester's first Premier League win of 2022 as late goals beat Burnley 2-0 at Turf Moor.
Vardy, back from a hamstring injury, set up the first as he laid the ball off for Maddison to bend the ball beyond the excellent Nick Pope.
And Vardy got his first goal in the league since November in the final minute, left alone at the far post to head home Harvey Barnes’s cross.
It was no coincidence that this was Leicester’s first league win since Vardy’s last appearance, the 1-0 victory over Liverpool on December 28th – this has not been a good season by the Foxes’ recent standards but a win rate of 40 per cent when Vardy starts drops to 12.5 per cent without him.
The positives did not end there – a first-half Maxwel Cornet strike for Burnley was ruled out for offside, and with Kasper Schmeichel barely tested otherwise, this was a first clean sheet away from home in the league this season.
While Brendan Rodgers could start looking up again, Burnley missed the chance to move out of the bottom three as the recent momentum which had seen them pick up seven points from three was halted. With Chelsea the visitors here on Saturday, things get no easier for Sean Dyche's side.
