Leaders Leicester missed the chance to move clear at the top of the Championship as they suffered a shock 1-0 defeat away to relegation-threatened Plymouth, thanks to Mustapha Bundu’s 21st-minute winner. (More Football News)
Second-placed Ipswich remain level🎀 on points with the Foxes, with Leeds a point further back ahead of their games on Saturday with all three clubs currently having four matche🔥s left.
Managerless Argyle climbed to 16th on the back of their first home win in seven, under the caretaker management team of director of football Neil Dewsnip and first-team coach Kevin Nancekivell and now sit fiv🗹e points clear of t🍸he bottom three.
It only took five minutes for Leicester to test home goalkeeper Michael Cooper as Abdul Fatawu’s thumping right-footed shot – following a flowing move – forced him into a diving save low down to his left.
Ricardo Pereira was next to test Cooper, following a defence-splitt💜ing o🥂ne-two with Wilfred Ndidi. Again it was all diving Cooper could do to parry the ball away.
Stephy Mavid𒅌idi latched on to the aerial ball and headed it back acros🦩s the goal, which resulted in a goalmouth scramble and Argyle eventually clearing the ball.
Mavididi went close with a curling 13th-minute shot after being teed up by playmaker Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall on the edge of the box. The a❀ttacking midfielder’s shot beat Cooper for pace but flew just past the post.
Totally against the run of play, Plymouth s𝕴tunned their visitors with a 21st-minute goal on the cou🐽nter.
Adam Forshaw intercepted a Leicester attack and released recalled striker Bundu with a superb,🐲 measured pass 𓆏through the middle of the park.
Bundu sprinted forward and – as he gꦍot into the penalty box – let fly with a fierce angled drive from the right that beat diving Mads Hermansen and rocketed into the far corner.
Harry Winks firꦉed wide from 20 yards as Argyle failed to clear their lines following another City corner with the half-hour mark approaching.
Argyle’s next best chance🐷 fell to Bundu, aꩲfter good work by Forshaw and substitute Joe Edwards, but this time the striker fired high over.
Cooper did well to save low at his near pꦑost as Dewsbury-Hall fired across the face of🧸 goal in the 44th minute from close range.
✤Cooper was again called into action early in the second half as he made another save, while Dewsbury-Hall tried his luck from 25 yards moments later.
Central defender Dan Scarr did w𝔍ell to stoop and h🅷ead a pacy Fatawu cross from the right away at the near post as Leicester continued to press for an equaliser.
Fatawu’s next cross from the right – after 56 minutes – found striker Patson Daka and his deft near-pos🐎t touch beat Cooper but spun p💜ast the far upright.
Daka’s last actio⛄n was firing wide when well placed at the far post after 67 minutes. He was replaced by former England i🌃nternational striker Jamie Vardy.
With just ov♎er 15 minut🎉es remaining, Wout Faes’ cross from the right was smashed towards goal by Mavididi but again, Cooper was equal to the effort.
Cooper made an even better stop, bravely diving in to deny Vardy as the Leicester striker broke into the box, one-on-one, in the 88th min⛎ute but the ho﷽sts held on for the much-needed victory.
