IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday IMAGE: Leicester City’s Jonny Evans celebrates after scoring his team’s third goal against Aston Villa at Villa Park in Birmingham on Sunday. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images Leicester City set a club record of eight successive top flight wins after two goals from Jamie Vardy helped them to an impressive 4-1 Premier League victory at Aston Villa on Sunday. Kelechi Iheanacho and Jonny Evans were also on target for Leicester, who served up a performance akin to those which produced a memorable title run in 2015-16 as they missed several chances to win by a bigger margin. The result left the Foxes second in the standings on 38 points from 16 games, eight adrift of runaway leaders Liverpool and six ahead of third-placed champions Manchester City, while Villa slipped to 17th on 15 points. Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers heaped praise on his players. “I thought they were amazing, it is a historical day for the club and the performance warranted that,” he was quoted as saying by the BBC. “We scored all types of goals today and kept going to the end and tried to keep scoring goals.” The league’s top… Read full this story
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