Leicester beat Crystal Palace 2-1 on Sunday and continue their good form thanks, among other things, to a great performance by their youth squad Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, who scored a goal and assisted Ademola Lookman. Brendan Rodgers’ men play the second leg of the Conference League quarterfinals on Thursday (0-0 in the first leg against PSV at the King Power Stadium).
The ‘Foxes’ went ahead after Dewsbury-Hall served a great pass to Lookman, who took advantage of it (minute 39), before Dewsbury-Hall himself scored the second goal (45′).
Crystal Palace had missed several chances, from Wilfried Zaha, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Joachim Andersen. Zaha missed a penalty committed by Youri Tielemans on Jordan Ayew. The maximum penalty was taken twice because Caglar Soyuncu entered the area. But Kasper Schmeichel stopped the man from Mafil. However, Zaha took advantage of the rebound to score a header to make it 2-1 in the 65th minute.
Palace pushed hard for 10 minutes and Jeffrey Schlupp was about to level, but in the end the London team’s streak (7 games without losing) ended.
Leicester have 4 wins and a draw in their last 6 Premiership games and are 9th. With 3 points less, Crystal Palace follows, 10th.