Summary

  • Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary

  • Zaha finishes from Eze through ball; Castagne curls in & Iheanacho rockets Leicester in front

  • Win for Leicester gives them seven-point cushion in top four

  • Crystal Palace have now won one of last seven

Live Reporting

Emlyn Begley

  1. INJURY TIME

    Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Four minutes added on. Hard to see a way back for Palace.

  2. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    It should be three. Jamie Vardy unselfishly finds Kelechi Iheanacho, and he unselfishly picks out Ayoze Perez - but the Spaniard's shot is straight at the keeper. And he was offside anyway.

  3. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Kelechi Iheanacho has netted 14 goals in his last 14 appearances for Leicester in all competitions, as many as he managed in his previous 76 for the Foxes.

  4. 'Kelechi confident'

    Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Karen Carney
    Former Arsenal winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Kelechi Iheanacho.Getty Images

    I think Iheanacho’s confidence has come because he knows when he plays he’s not going to get substituted for Jamie Vardy.

    As a player you always looking over your shoulder thinking you are going to get taken off.

    But because he’s playing next to Jamie Vardy he’s confident and that one goal turns into two and three.

  5. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Caglar Soyuncu is able to play on though, he didn't need treatment.

  6. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Joel Ward stands on Caglar Soyuncu's heel and the Leicester defender is in pain. He also seems to have a cut on his leg - must have been from another incident.

  7. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Palace lift a free-kick into the box and Christian Benteke heads wide at the far post.

  8. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Kelechi Iheanacho takes advantage of poor defending and runs into the box and unselfishly - too unselfishly you may argue - tries to find Jamie Vardy but the veteran can't get a shot in.

  9. SUBSTITUTION

    Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Jairo Riedewald for Palace. I'm not sure why he didn't come on with James McCarthy since he was waiting there at the same time.

  10. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    On 1 February Kelechi Iheanacho had zero Premier League goals all season.

    He's on 10 now. Nobody has scored as many since 3 February.

  11. 'An absolute rocket'

    Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Karen Carney
    Former Arsenal winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    That is unbelievable, we both just said ‘wow’, what a goal.

    It’s a difficult one because it’s at such a tight angle, he gets it on his left foot and he’s got no room, nowhere to pull his leg back to get the power he got on to it, but he’s smashed it with his left foot into the top corner, it’s an absolute rocket.

  12. SUBSTITUTION

    Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Palace bring on James McCarthy for Luka Milivojevic.

  13. Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Kelechi Iheanacho is the first Nigerian player to reach double figures in Premier League goals in a season since Odion Ighalo's 15 for Watford in 2015-16.

    Iheanacho has scored 12 goals in nine games.

  14. goal

    GOAL - Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace

    Kelechi Iheanacho

    Woof.

    Jonny Evans plays a long ball into the path of Kelechi Iheanacho. The in-form striker lets it bounce, takes a good first touch, cuts inside a defender and smashes an absolute thunderbolt into the roof of the net.

  15. Wow, I rarely call them right...

  16. Leicester 1-1 Crystal Palace

    It feels like a Leicester goal may be coming. Youri Tielemans flashes a shot wide from 20 yards.

  17. SUBSTITUTION

    Leicester 1-1 Crystal Palace

    Palace's first sub as Andros Townsend replaces Jordan Ayew.

  18. Leicester 1-1 Crystal Palace

    Leicester's strikers link up well and it's almost a Jamie Vardy goal. He plays it with Kelechi Iheanacho, who instantly feeds it back to Vardy. The veteran takes it round a defender and pokes a shot past Vicente Guaita but it rolls wide of the far post.

  19. 'Subs have brought intensity'

    Leicester 1-1 Crystal Palace

    Karen Carney
    Former Arsenal winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    There’s more of an intensity since the subs have come on.

    Managers say that substitutes have to raise the level of a game when they come on and to be fair they have done – Albrighton and Perez have brought a different intensity to this Leicester side now.

  20. Leicester 1-1 Crystal Palace

    Leicester end up back in their own half from the corner.