Super Eagles stars Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi were named to Leicester City's bench for Saturday's early kick off in the English Premier League at the King Power Stadium which the Foxes lost by 1-0 courtesy of a Kevin De Bruyne fantastic freekick.

While Ndidi who is making a return from a hamstring injury was not brought on while Iheanacho came off the substitutes bench to replace Jamie Vardy in the 71st minute.

The Foxes had won two of their previous three matches before Saturday's game keeping clean sheets in four of their last five games in the topflight.

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers started with five defenders to stifle Manchester City's attack but it was City that had early dominance.

Julian Alvarez who started upfront in place of the injured Erling Haaland was flagged offside in the 16th minute after his low shot from close range.

City was denied an opener a minute later when Leicester's goalkeeper Danny Ward produced an instinctive left footed save from a Bernardo Silva low drive.

Rodgers introduced Senegal international Nampalys Mendy in the 46th minute rather than Ndidi in defensive midfield position and brought off Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

Kevin De Bruyne scored in the 49th minute from a fantastic freekick that beat the five-man Leicester wall set up by goalkeeper Ward.

Iheanacho formed a double attacking pair with Zambia international Patson Daka who substituted ÇaÄŸlar Söyüncü but was not able to restore parity for the 2015/2016 Premier League champions.

Izuchukwu Michael

    
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