{"id":656374,"date":"2025-12-26T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:40:19","slug":"leicester-city-1-2-watford-hornets-fight-back-to-beat-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656374\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City 1-2 Watford: Hornets fight back to beat Foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both the Watford goals were the result of clever thinking and equally smart delivery by the outstanding Imran Louza and means his side are now just a point and two places outside the play-off spots thanks to a third win in a five-game unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prospect of an away win looked unlikely when James set the tone for an exhilarating afternoon with a shrewd finish, shifting the ball to his right foot and shooting low into the far corner after some neat team interplay on the edge of the box<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides wasted good opportunities thereafter before the visitors got back on terms just before the break through Maamma&#8217;s delicious first-time finish with the outside of his right boot following Louza&#8217;s lay-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The parity was well deserved, Watford having gone close through Luca Kjerrumgaard and also seeing a Pollock header ruled out for offside from a corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Leicester, who have now picked up just 14 points from their past 13 games and were booed off at the end, will be rueing a glorious chance to go 2-0 ahead when Watford keeper Egil Selvik made amends for his dreadful clearance by pushing away Stephy Mavididi&#8217;s low strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both the Watford goals were the result of clever thinking and equally smart delivery by the outstanding Imran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-656374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115787335200750580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}