Leicester 4-1 West Ham: Jamie Vardy goes off injured and Ayoze Perez scores twice as Foxes batter David Moyes' side

Ayoze Perez scored twice as the Foxes ended their winless run in the Premier League in emphatic style, but the loss of Vardy with what looked a hamstring injury will be a huge worry.

Vardy limped off just before half-time at the King Power Stadium with his side 1-0 ahead thanks to Harvey Barnes' 24th-minute opener, with the winger then setting up Ricardo Pereira to fire home the second in added time.

West Ham were given a route back into the match five minutes after the interval when Wilfred Ndidi was adjudged to have bundled Sebastien Haller over in the area and Mark Noble scored from the penalty spot.

However, the home side were given a debatable penalty of their own when Kelechi Iheanacho was deemed to have been brought down by Angelo Ogbonna and Perez made no mistake from 12 yards.

The former Newcastle player then swept home his side's final goal of the night to lift them back with three points of second-placed Manchester City. West Ham remain outside the relegation places on goal difference.

Leicester City 4-1 West Ham United Opta stats

• Leicester picked up their eighth home victory in the Premier League this season – this is their most ever through the first 12 home games of a league campaign.
• This was West Ham manager David Moyes’ 50th Premier League away game against a side starting the day in the top four – the Scotsman has won just one of these 50 games (D15 L34), with that lone victory coming in December 2010 (Man City 1-2 Everton).
• Leicester have now scored 52 goals in the Premier League this season; their most after 24 games of a top-flight campaign since 1930-31 (52).
• Since the start of October 2019, no team have gained fewer points (11) or lost more games (11) in the Premier League than West Ham.
• Harvey Barnes has scored in consecutive Premier League games for the first time as a Leicester player, while he’s already netted as many goals in the competition in 2020 (two in three games) as he managed in the whole of 2019 (two in 35 games).
• Mark Noble has now been directly involved in 79 goals for West Ham in the Premier League (46 goals and 33 assists); the most of any player for the club in the competition's history, overtaking Paolo Di Canio.
• Leicester’s Ricardo Pereira has had a direct hand in 13 goals in the Premier League since the start of last season (five goals and eight assists) – the only two defenders with more in this period are Liverpool pair Trent Alexander-Arnold (24) and Andrew Robertson (18).
• West Ham captain Mark Noble has now scored 27 penalties in the Premier League (out of 31 taken); the fourth-most of any player in the competition's history, behind Alan Shearer (56), Frank Lampard (43) and Steven Gerrard (32).

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