Izuchukwu OkosiEverton coached by Frank Lampard fell to another home defeat as Leicester City eased their worries with a great performance at the Goodison Park topped off by clinical strikes from Youri Tielemans and Harvey Barnes.
Leicester were hovering on the relegation places but the win lifts them to the 13th place in the table.
With the match being the last home game before Remembrance Sunday, Goodison observed the traditional laying of poppy wreaths, a bugler playing The Last Post and a silence for those that gave their lives in conflict down the years.
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Everton managed to achieve a goalless draw away at the Craven Cottage against Fulham last weekend while Brendan Rodgers’ side fell to a 1-0 defeat to Pep Guardiola’a men, Manchester City.
The game marked the 174th league appearance for Nigeria’s Wilfred Ndidi who returned from his hamstring injury after missing last weekend’s 1-0 defeat to Manchester City as he sat out the game on the bench.
Kelechi Iheanacho was an unused substitute for the Foxes in Saturday’s home win.
Belgian international Youri Tielemans scored what could potentially be the goal of the season with an unstoppable piledrive from the edge of the box after a brilliant control with his thigh just brftoe the halftime break.
Rodgers’ named his starting line-up as follows: Ward, Castagne, Amartey, Faes, Justin, Soumare, Maddison, Tielemans (c), Dewsbury-Hall, Barnes and Daka.
Ndidi then rose from the bench and replaced Boubakary Soumare in the 70th minute.
England’s Harvey Barnes found the net after he teed up by the impressive Maddison who won the Man of the Match prize.
Ndidi blocked a goal-bound shot from Alex Iwobi who created some goal scoring chances for Everton and was handy to help with defensive duties.
The clean sheet on Saturday was the fourth in five league matches for Leicester City who will be hoping to finish at least in the top half of the Premier League table before the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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