Here’s Paul Wilson’s match report from Turf Moor.
Nick Pope’s penalty save from Jamie Vardy and Ashley Westwood’s winner took three points from Brendan Rodgers’ team
Updated
Sun 19 Jan 2020 11.02 EST
First published on Sun 19 Jan 2020 08.00 EST
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Key events
Nick Pope and Ashley Westwood, man of the match and winning goalscorer, speak.
NP: [On saving from Jamie Vardy] At the World Cup, he took a few against me. It’s nice to be involved and make a few saves. Massive win for us and the atmosphere was electric. You go on bad runs, and to go four without a win is hard. To go 1-0 down and recover like that is important for us.
AW: I don’t get many, me and Corky have been saying that. It’s a great win for us.
Final score: Burnley 2-1 Leicester
Nick Pope’s penalty save was the key moment and from that platform, coming as it did not long after Chris Wood’s equaliser, Burnley seized the win and via a fine goal from Ashley Westwood. Leicester were, in truth, flat for most of the game. They have won only two of their last six games.
90+5 min: One last corner from James Maddison and Kasper Schmeichel goes up. It comes to naught and that’s that. Well done to Burnley.
90+3 min: Leicester look somewhat demoralised. Burnley are dealing just fine with the long balls aimed at them.
90+2 min: Chris Wood goes off for Aaron Lennon for Burnley and Phil Bardsley has been taking some treatment. The clock is being run down rather professionally.
90 min: Three minutes added on. Ricardo’s cross is headed away in desperation by Bardsley as an extra three minutes are added on. Then, the ball goes loose in the Burnley area and Nick Pope is only to too happy to smother the ball.
89 min: Maddison and Ricardo scurry into the box, and Burnley concede a corner. Maddison takes and it is cleared. Maddison then whips a low ball in that Ben Mee clears with a low, Phil Jones-esque header.
87 min: Soyuncu gets the ball in space and gets greedy. The jeers denote his failure to get the ball down anywhere near the goal. Leicester getting somewhat desperate.
86 min: Leicester pour forward but Burnley hold firm. Leicester look a little shapeless in truth while Burnley look organised.
84 min: Maddison is fouled by Tarkowski on the touchline and will take a free-kick. This time, Pope is less than convincing but there is nobody to stop him claiming it at the second attempt.
82 min: The remaining moments will likely see Leicester push on for an equaliser. They have been off it today while Burnley have been excellent in chasing this one down. They started poorly but have pulled themselves through this.
80 min: Well. Well. That was excellent midfield play from Westwood, who realised Chris Wood had started that move from deep so the space needed filling. And Leicester were left rocking on their heels.
Goal! Burnley 2-1 Leicester (Westwood, 79)
Burnley lead! Charlie Taylor’s ball beats Jonny Evans, comes off Fuchs and Westwood, surging forward finds the space to shoot.
77 min: Tielemans, after that billing, is jeered after whacking the ball out of play, and off the touchline. But then his ball means Vardy goes close with Pope making another fine save. Vardy looks vexed.
75 min: Leicester, with Tielemans on, step it up. Maddison has a shot blocked by Ben Mee, who has been in the thick of matters.
74 min: Brendan Rodgers is doing some pointing and directing. His team have looked ragged this afternoon.
73 min: Two Leicester changes: Off goes Ayoze Perez for Kelechi Iheanacho, and Dennis Praet for Youri Tielemans.
72 min: Leicester have to defend a free-kick, then a corner and the home fans are roaring on their men. The Burnley spirit is very far from extinguished.
71 min: Would Leicester’s have been a deserving lead? They have not been great in this game. barring Harvey Barnes, who has been a constant danger. And Vardy has been peripheral.
69 min: Well. Vardy made a mess of that but Pope was excellent. Now the home fans are up for this. Good atmosphere now.
Jamie Vardy has a penalty saved!
There is a delay for VAR, looking for an offside, but then comes the kick itself. It’s casual, and readable and Nick Pope makes a great save.
67 min: Penalty to Leicester! Mee brings down Barnes, who had sped away from him.
Burnley’s defender Ben Mee (L) fouls Leicester City’s midfielder Harvey Barnes (R) to concede a penalty. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
66 min: A Leicester wildcat attack as Ricardo and then Barnes speed on but the final ball is just behind James Maddison and he fails to direct his shot away from Pope.
65 min: Soyuncu now taking the brunt off the crowd for his running battle with Chris Wood. This is turning into the type of physical contest that Burnley will relish far more than Leicester.
63 min: Leicester free-kick from the left, drifted by Fuchs at Soyuncu and there are some acrobatics from Jonny Evans before the ball is cleared at the third attempt.
62 min: Another clash between Bardsley and Maddison results in rage from the Salfordian defender and his manager. Burnley had wanted an advantage called after a previous foul by Soyuncu. The referee is taking the brunt from fans again. Moral probity is being questioned.
59 min: Maddison’s lofted ball is headed away by Taylor, just when Barnes was ready to receive the pass. Then, Perez gets space to shoot but Pope is ready for it, and stops it with ease.
58 min: Maddison booed as he goes to ground and doesn’t get a foul; there is a crackling atmosphere at last at Turf Moor.
57 min: The set piece always looked the likely route to goal for Burnley and so it proved. Leicester found themselves overmanned. The goal owed much to the quality of Dwight McNeil, who has suddenly come into this game.
Goal! Burnley 1-1 Leicester (Wood, 56)
McNeil whips in the corner. Mee clatters above everyone and Wood has a tap-in, having anticipated the knock-down.
55 min: Better from Burnley but still ponderous. Rodriguez does, though, force a corner.
53 min: Jonny Evans shows his experience in cutting back across himself to clear up the sliver of danger that had opened up when the ball was aimed at Chris Wood.
52 min: Maddison goes close, as he seizes on a bouncing ball, and suddenly a spectacular goal looks on, only for his shot to go wide. He saw glory there but didn’t get it.
50 min: Perhaps Burnley have some urgency after all. McNeil is their man for fliar and he gets to the byline and whips in a cross that evades all.
48 min: But what’s this? A Burnley attack of note, as Charlie Taylor whips in the ball and Chris Wood heads over. He just couldn’t get over it, even at his great height.
47 min: Next, Vardy manages to squeeze through the middle before the ball is cleared. Burnley reeling from a blast of Dyche?
46 min: We are back underway at a muted Turf Moor. Hope in short supply for the home fans? Leicester look to turn the screw early with a James Maddison shot which Nick Pope saves well and manages to direct the ball away from his area.
Joe Pearson from Indianapolis sums it up. “This is dire. Not much of a satisfying appetizer for the coming main course.”
New to Liverpool v Manchester United, mate? Usually awful games.
Mary Waltz emails in: “On the Stateside feed, the crowd goes silent at certain moments and Americans are getting to hear individual Burnley fans thoughts on their team. I especially liked “now why would you ***ing do that. F***!”
Half-time: Burnley 0-1 Leicester
Leicester’s goal came amid a morass of poor play from each team. The interception from Dennis Praet was the best moment of the half, and Harvey Barnes’ finish decent enough. Sean Dyche is raging, and well he might. His team have been poor, but he thinks Jack Cork was fouled by Praet. He wasn’t.
45 min: Leicester free-kick, and Maddison whips it in. Mee gets there first before McNeil commits another foul, and Maddison gets another chance to deliver. This time, Perez heads over.
44 min: Schmeichel has to make a save but it is not much of one. Chris Wood’s header was straight at him when it would have been far better directed at Jay Rodriguez as he was making a belated run into the box.
42 min: Leicester playing some slow passes as they try to take the sting out of Burnley, who have not presented much of a threat. The home fans continue to complain about the referee, but their team’s performance is the true source of their ire.
40 min: James Maddison down? Does that continue the woes of England’s Euro 2016 squad? No, he seems to be ok. Phew.
38 min: Burnley have a free-kick, a set-piece to feed off, and it comes from the left. There is brief chaos in the Leicester box, then a ricochet then a goal kick.
37 min: Leicester have confidence and so does Harvey Barnes who releases Maddison with a fine pass. That forces a corner which is cleared.
34 min: Burnley yet to win a game in which they have conceded the first goal. That came against the run of play, in that there had been no run of play to speak of. It was a bad goal to concede. Cork says he was fouled by Praet but VAR says no.
Goal! Burnley 0-1 Leicester (Barnes, 33)
Dennis Praet slides in on Jack Cork and Barnes speeds on, with Jamie Vardy pulling defenders with him. Barnes goes on and his shot beats Pope, who was not too impressive in attempting to save that.
32 min: A shot, an actual shot. The ball is flicked to Rodriguez, and he shoots from a very long way out indeed. It is easily claimed by Kasper Schmeichel.
30 min: Harvey Barnes hassled into a mistake but Burnley cannot force anything from it. Phil Bardsley then launches himself over Barnes and ends up in a heap. He will be OK to carry on, though. He has a sore neck but is made of stern stuff.