Kelechi Iheanacho has been voted man of the match by Leicester City fans following the Foxes hard earned 2-1 away win against West Ham United at the London Stadium on Saturday night, reports Completesports.com.
Iheanacho won 38.4% of the votes cast by Leicester fans, while Demarai Gray who scored the second goal, came second with 25% votes.
Hamza Choudhury, who was also one of the key performers for the Foxes in the game, came third with 21.6% votes.
Iheanacho who was on for 90 minutes in the game ,won a penalty for Leicester in the 12th minute after he was felled inside the box by Lukasz Fabianski which was missed by Gray.
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The Nigeria international headed Brendan Rodgers’ men in front five minutes before the break.
The Hammers were handed a lifeline when Pablo Fornals equalised on the stroke of half-time, but Leicester went on to secure all three points when Gray scored the winning goal six minutes before the hour mark.
Iheanacho has now scored three goals in four league appearances for Leicester this season.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Weldone, Kelechi. 5goals and 2 assists in 6games is mouth watering statistics. With 2 MOM performance, yet he still finds game time hard to come by in Leicester city. I really think he needs to move on to where he will be given game time to explode. He is in a form of his life.
Even with their 2 recent losses, Rogers did not see any reason to introduce him. And hauled him off just for a minor error that had no consequence in the match against Norwich. Yet he still delivers when called upon.
Man management is important. Kele is really rediscovering himself and he is improving with each game. We shouldn’t be too hard on the couch. If he wanted kele out he could have sanctioned it, but instead he kept him and he uses him from time to time. Give him time, as long as kele keeps performing when called on, the couch will have no option than to play him regularly.
Spot on!
I did not watch the match but am happy for Kelechi latest form!
Kelechi is being man managed. In 6 games he has scored 5 goal and provided two assists. if I’m not mistaken he has also won two penalties. He has gone from a player who seemed to have gone awol in the wilderness, to one who is ready when called upon. He will always score goals, just that he needs to be deployed correctly.
Brendan Rogers is getting the best out of him, kept him sharp, given him focus and is putting him in positions where he is utilizing his strengths. He got a rare start because Jamie Vardy had a baby yesterday and he is also likely to start the next game before Jamie returns.
What is left is for the Super eagles coach to look at what is working well and speak with Brendan so that he can give his best for both club and country.
At this time we have strikers who are hot, coming back to form and who are hungry. A forward line up of Victor Osimhen, Cyriel Dessers, Kelechi Iheanacho, David Okereke, plus reserves (standby) of Olanrewaju Kayode and Junior Ajayi should be enough to get us through to the knock out stages of the world cup qualifiers in March.
Long may they keep their form.
Highlights of yesterdays match between West ham and Leicester is below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVmZdtBXLa8&feature=onebox
Then Summary of 2019/2020 season for Nigerian Hottest strikers.
1. Sadiq Umar 16g 12a in 30m
2. Cyril Dessers 15g 6a in 20m
3. Victor Osimhen 13g 4a in 24m
4. David Okereke 9g 1a in 26m
5. Simmy Nwankwo 9g 2a in 19m
6. Dennis Emmanuel 8g 2a in 25m
7. Paul Onuachu 8g 1a in 22m
8. Kayode Olarewaju 7g 6a in 14m
9. Peter Olayika 6g 4a in 25m
10.Josh Maja 6g 2a in 17m
11.Anthony Nwakaeme 6g 6a in 26m
12.Kelechi Iheanacho 5g 2a in 6m
Wishing you all goals filled 2020.
Great analysis @Ikeben.
…and some people expect all these 12 top strikers to have featured in the 4 matches we’ve played since AFCON.
How that is possible in their eyes beats me.
My brother, the competition to be Super Eagles top 9 is real and hot. Osimhen is the chosen one now but all around him are strikers banging in goals week in week out.
I no envy Rohr, any one he choose people will complain why not the other. They clamored for Onuachu, but now we don’t want him again. And he can’t pick more than 4 in 22 and 2 in 11.
But if am the coach, i will pick, Osimhen, Kelechi, Dessers and either of Sadiq or Simmy (for height instead of Onuachu).
Ah, my brother, some people’s brains don’t work that way o. Every Jack and Harry that scores a goal in Europe must be called up and must play. And come the next match day, another set must be called up to prosecute the game. And then in 4 matchdays we would have featured 16 top9s as if it is PlayStation…! They that know more than the coach…Lolz
Great analysis from you guys just enjoying ma self reading.You guys are the best.Long live SE, long live Niger