Harry Winks scored a last-gasp winner as Sky Guess Championship leaders Leicester beat West Brom 2-1 in a dramatic end to offer supervisor Enzo Maresca a profitable first return to The Hawthorns.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor’s 72nd-minute header – his sixth purpose of the season – gave Leicester the lead and the midfielder then arrange Winks within the fourth minute of stoppage time after substitute Josh Maja regarded like he had rescued a degree.
Maresca, who began his skilled profession at West Brom and performed 47 video games there between 1998-2000, could have been relieved as there was little between the groups, who each hit the purpose body within the first half.
West Brom had a penalty declare turned down when Grady Diangana went down after it appeared he was pushed over within the field; VAR may need intervened if it was obtainable.
Albion then didn’t react shortly sufficient when goalkeeper Mads Hermansen performed a poor go out and it was intercepted, Brandon Thomas-Asante ultimately having a shot blocked.
The house facet went even nearer within the twenty fifth minute when Cedric Kipre stabbed towards a publish with the goalkeeper crushed after Matt Phillips’s nook had flicked off a few heads.
However Leicester returned hearth to hit the purpose body themselves when Kelechi Iheanacho’s low angled drive was deflected onto the close to publish by Darnell Furlong’s lunge.
It regarded like issues may open up after the break when Diangana’s curling shot was deflected over the bar off Wout Faes.
However as an alternative it turned very scrappy, with each groups responsible of giving the ball away in midfield and defences remained on high.
That nearly modified when Wilfred Ndidi obtained on the tip of a cross from substitute Abdul Fatawu, however his flicked header underneath stress lacked the facility to beat Alex Palmer, who fumbled earlier than the ball was cleared.
The Ndidi-Fatawu link-up mixed once more to devastating impact within the 72nd minute.
Fatawu noticed Ndidi’s run past the Albion midfield within the inside proper place and the latter crossed for Dewsbury-Corridor to nod the ball dwelling forward of Furlong from six yards out.
Albion equalised in very scrappy style. Furlong’s throw-in was headed away by Faes and, when the ball got here again in, Kipre helped it on – a grounded Leicester defender may solely tee up Maja to prod dwelling his first purpose since February 2022.
However Leicester hit Albion on the counter after they broke on a protracted throw-in and Iheanacho handed from inside his personal half to Dewsbury-Corridor, who ran 40 yards with the ball earlier than drawing Palmer and slipping in Winks for an open purpose.
