Football betting prediction Leicester took a tough win over Burnley but climbed to second place in England
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Leicester had a difficult 2-1 victory over Burnley and returned to the winning streak after allowing a loss to Liverpool in the forefront. The home side scored Jamie Vardy in the 45th and Yuri Tillemans in the 73rd, while Chris Wood scored in the 27th. That win climbed the Foxes to second place in the provisional 17-point asset standings, leaving the visitors eighth with 12.
Brandon Rodgers players began the meeting more actively and missed several positions in front of Nick Pope`s door. As early as the third minute, a shot from the left flank of James Madison caused several rebounds in the penalty area, but the ball was still knocked out by a Burnley player.
However, things took an unexpected turn and Sean Deach`s boys came forward in the result. Chris Wood opened the scoring in the 27th minute, when a long ball hit Dwight McNeill, he moved to the right wing, from there center and Wood directed it under the beam of Schmeichel.
At the very end of the half, Jamie Vardy restored the equalizer after an excellent centering of Harvey Barnes on the left, which was uncovered without a header by the Foxes` goalkeeper at the border of the small penalty area.
The second half started with more active action from the Brandon Rogers players, but they never managed to reach very clean positions. In the 72nd minute the home side goal was canceled after it turned out that Demaraya Gray was ambushed at Madison`s pass to him on the right wing and before sending her into the penalty box.
Just a minute later, Yuri Tillemans scored for 2:1. Again Gray made a double pass to Ricardo Pereira, which put him in an excellent position, and his centering found himself completely uncovered in the box Tillemans, who sent the ball unbeaten under the beam. Pope. In the 77th minute, the visitors` goalkeeper was completely uncovered with the ball within feet of Schmeichel, but could not find the outline of the door.
In the 80th minute Tillemans lost the ball in the middle of the field, it was sent immediately to Chris Wood in the penalty area, the attacker managed to score, but subsequently the referee canceled the hit after a controversial decision to violate the attacker against Johnny Evans and consultation with VAR.
In the final by football betting tips minutes, the visitors tried to put pressure on their home team but failed to reach the goal. In the next round, Leicester visits Southampton and Burnley will host Chelsea.
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