Jamie Vardy grabbed a hat-trick as Pep Guardiola’s Man City fell like pack of cards in a 4-2 drubbing at King Power Stadium.
The Foxes, who had started their title defence poorly, showed their ferocious side to the Citizens and were 4-0 up before City pulled two goals back through Kolarov and Nolito in the 82nd and 90th minute respectively – mainly due to the fact that the Foxes had simmered down.
But before then, City were massacred and were 0-3 down within 20 minutes, with goals from England striker Vardy and Andy King.
Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, who were both rested in the 0-5 humiliation in Porto, ran riot with the visitors’ defence and strategy in shambles, as the latter spectacularly ended his drought for the Foxes.
Vardy was on song again in the 79th minute for his well deserved hat-trick.
Though without their suspended goal merchant, Sergio Aguero, Man City arrived King Power Stadium basking in confidence, with the best away record in the EPL, having won six of their seven away games but their tactics backfired. It left them exposed by Leicester’s counter-attacking prowess anchored on the lightening pace of Vardy and Mahrez.
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