Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho opened his goal account for the season as bottom-of-the-table Leicester City continued their poor start to the campaign going down to a 5-2 defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion at the AMEX Stadium.
Kelechi Iheanacho, given a surprise starting role by coach Brendan Rodgers, started alongside Patson Daka and Harvey Barnes in the Foxes’ attack.
Iheanacho, who has scored 15 goals and provided a further five assists in his last 25 starts for the club in the league, registered an early lead for the Foxes.
Leicester broke the deadlock inside one minute when Daka and Iheanacho combined superbly. Youri Tielemans won the ball in the midfield and passed it to Harvey Barnes, who picked out Daka with a reverse through-ball.
Iheanacho’s goal was scored in just 52 seconds, and that is the second fastest goal of the season in the English Premier League.
An own-goal by Luke Thomas and Moisés Caicedo’s strike putting Brighton in the lead after 15 minutes before Daka equalized in the 33rd but Brighton dominated the second half, with Leandro Trossard and two goals by Alexis Mac Allister — one a penalty after Ndidi brought down Trossard at the edge of the box and the other a curling free kick deep into stoppage time — piling on the agony for Leicester in their fifth league loss of the season, conceding 16 goals in six matches in the process.