Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho scored his first premier league goal of the season as Leicester City compounds Arsenal woeful 2018 away matches in 3-1 victory at King Power Stadium.

Iheanacho opened the goal feast, before Jamie Vardy and Rihad Mahrez struck in the second-half to ensure Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s equaliser earlier in the period counts for nothing.
Leicester coach Claude Puel make three changes to their side for this match, with the returning Simpson joined by goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic and striker Kelechi Iheanacho.

Ben Hamer had been preferred to Schmeichel in the previous games without the Dane, but it is Jakupovic who gets the nod this evening, while Iheanacho will hope to provide an extra goal threat having replaced Vicent Iborra in the starting line-up.

Arsene Wenger makes four changes to the side that gave him such a good send-off against Burnley at the weekend with Hector Bellerin and Jack Wilshere joining Alexandre Lacazette in dropping out of the squad altogether having played on Sunday.

Calum Chambers is also absent from the 18, with Maitland-Niles, Rob Holding, Aaron Ramsey and Danny Welbeck the quartet to come into their side for Wenger’s penultimate Arsenal team selection.
Jakupovic is called into his first serious piece of action tonight as he dives to his left to push an Iwobi effort behind for a corner.

It was a nice move from Arsenal, but Leicester made it far too easy for them once they got into the box.

Leicester threatens for the first time this evening as Welbeck gives the ball away, allowing Adrien Silva to thread the ball through for Jamie Vardy as the England international stands up holding to create space to shoot, but he forces himself a little wide and Petr Cech is able to turn the ball past the near post.

Leicester are 1-0 up after Iheanacho who fires his finish past Cech after receiving a heading from fellow African Diabate in the 14 minutes of the encounter.

Arsenal’s away woes aren’t easing in a hurry as Konstantinos Mavropanos and Iheanacho clash for a 50:50 with Leicester forward comes off the better but his opponent grabs him by the shirt and pulling him down with referee Graham Scott shown the Greek defender his first red card in his Gunners career.

Wenger makes a change after that red card and Welbeck is the man sacrificed as Shkodran Mustafi replaces him and switching to a 4-2-3 formation with Iwobi wide left and Mkhitaryan wide right.

A chance for Arsenal as Xhaka plays a very smart reverse pass to Iwobi in the area. It goes square to Mkhitaryan, who unleashes a snapshot Jakupovic can only block for a corner. That comes to Aubameyang, who can’t quite do more than poke a shot through a mass of bodies.

Leicester are back on the front foot now and Mahrez holds on to the ball for a long time, trying to do it all himself but eventually blazing his effort a long way over the crossbar.

Leicester win a free kick in a really good position and Mahrez leaves it for Silva, who tries to go under the wall and into the far bottom corner. Cech sees it late but gets down well to make a decent save.

Cech again comes to Arsenal’s rescue here as Iheanacho fires a low strike across goal which the keeper parries away with another smart stop.

Ambitious from Iheanacho as he steals the ball just inside his own half and tries to lob Cech from inside the centre circle, but he puts too much on it.
Arsenal have started this half brightly as well, and they almost level things up! A chipped ball to the left channel finds the overlapping Kolasinac, who drills a low strike against the foot of the near post from a tight angle.

Leicester come pouring forward again and find themselves with a two-on-one far too easily as Vardy gives the ball out to an unmarked Diabate the Malian advances into the area before squeezing the ball under Cech, although the Arsenal keeper gets enough on the ball to take the pace off it before Mustafi is there to clear it off the line.

Despite the constant stream of Leicester chances, it’s Arsenal who are back on level terms an attack down the right as Maitland-Niles whipped the ball into the Foxes box as Aubameyang meets it only to see his first save spectacularly saved by Jakupovic, but the Arsenal striker is there to smash home the rebound to make 1-1 in the 53 minutes of the game.

Mkhitaryan brings down a diagonal ball into the box with a lovely touch before looking to hammer a half-volley towards the near top corner, but it flies over the crossbar.