Leicester 2-0 Chelsea: Lampard’s job on the line as Foxes go top of EPL

Chelsea suffered a fifth defeat in eight league games against Leicester to leave Coach Frank Lampard on the brink.

Leicester City moved into first place in the Premier League on Tuesday with a convincing 2-0 win over a struggling Chelsea side at King Power Stadium.

According to CBS Sport, the Foxes made the Blues pay for their errors and scored both goals in the first half to blow the doors off the match and continue Chelsea’s miserable run of form.

Frank Lampard’s side have lost five of their last eight league matches and finished the day in eighth place.

Chelsea had the majority of possession but could not break down an inspired Leicester defence, led by youngster Wesley Fofana, who gave the visiting attack all they could handle under the wind and rain.

The Blues were the most threatening on set pieces, twice getting good looks on corner kicks, while Timo Werner put away a late free kick cross that was ruled offside.

It was Wilfred Ndidi’s wonderful strike at the top of the box that resulted in the winner just six minutes in, with his rocket shot kissing off the left post and leaving every Chelsea player frozen.

James Maddison then took advantage of a sleeping Reece James to make it 2-0 in the 41st minute, securing an insurance goal that they didn’t even need in the end.

The Foxes are now seven matches unbeaten in all competitions.

Leicester were exceptional and deserved the result

Brendan Rodgers, for the first time in 16 tries, finally got a win against Chelsea as his side took it to them, exploiting space to get players in deep. Frankly, the Blues were lucky the scoreline wasn’t much worse.

With Chelsea’s defensce in disarray, the Foxes were able to play balls to the far side and have enough room to make something of it, especially on the second goal.

In the end, it was the lack of shape and execution defensively and really not creating enough quality chances in the final third, finishing with an expected goals of 0.74.

Jamie Vardy missed a couple of chances to pile on the humiliation. It mattered little, though, as Brendan Rodgers’ men surged to the top of the Premier League table.

Timo Werner thought he had set up a dramatic late finale, only for his goal to be disallowed.

Chelsea fans need not rely on their horoscopes to predict that this could spell bad news for Lampard.

In fact, prior to kick-off, talkSPORT reported that he could be sacked if they lost at the King Power Stadium.

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