Heskey & Roberts Hand O'Neill First Leicester Win At Wolves

Molineux Stadium has been a difficult hunting ground for Leicester City, but one victory at the 132-year-old home of Wolverhampton Wanderers which was particularly sweet for the Blue Army came 25 years ago.

2021-02-06T17:03:00.000Z

Molineux Stadium has been a difficult hunting ground for Leicester City, but one victory at the 132-year-old home of Wolverhampton Wanderers which was particularly sweet for the Blue Army came 25 years ago.

2021-02-06T17:03:00.000Z

Heskey & Roberts Hand O'Neill First Leicester Win At Wolves

Molineux Stadium has been a difficult hunting ground for Leicester City, but one victory at the 132-year-old home of Wolverhampton Wanderers which was particularly sweet for the Blue Army came 25 years ago.

2021-02-06T17:03:00.000Z

Heskey & Roberts Hand O'Neill First Leicester Win At Wolves

Molineux Stadium has been a difficult hunting ground for Leicester City, but one victory at the 132-year-old home of Wolverhampton Wanderers which was particularly sweet for the Blue Army came 25 years ago.

2021-02-06T17:03:00.000Z

Heskey & Roberts Hand O'Neill First Leicester Win At Wolves

Molineux Stadium has been a difficult hunting ground for Leicester City, but one victory at the 132-year-old home of Wolverhampton Wanderers which was particularly sweet for the Blue Army came 25 years ago.

2021-02-06T17:03:00.000Z

The Foxes travel across the Midlands this Sunday for the 23rd outing of an exciting 2020/21 Premier League season following a 2-0 success over Fulham at Craven Cottage on Wednesday.

Ahead of that encounter with Nuno Espírito Santo's side, LCFC.com remembers one particularly dramatic clash at Molineux a quarter of a century ago...

Wolves 2 Leicester City 321 February, 1996Molineux StadiumFirst Division

Under-fire new Leicester City manager Martin O'Neill secured his first victory at the eighth attempt as a brace from Emile Heskey and Iwan Roberts' solitary strike registered a 3-2 success at Molineux.

Following the shock departure of Mark McGhee, to join Wolves, long-term target O'Neill was preferred to bookies' favourite Mike Walker as the Northern Irishman became the Club's 24th full-time manager.

O'Neill, though, endured a torrid start. Leicester drew with Grimsby Town, Millwall, Sunderland, Luton Town and Port Vale, while also losing to Stoke City and Portsmouth, as well as a 5-0 FA Cup defeat at Manchester City. The former Nottingham Forest man was eight games without a win.

On 21 February, 1996, though, the Foxes traveled to Molineux to tackle Wolves, managed by McGhee, the man who cited the West Midlands club's greater promotion prospects upon his Filbert Street departure.

City got off to a bad start in the West Midlands, too, as goalkeeper Kevin Poole spilled a cross into the box, affording Steve Bull with the chance to score one of his 306 goals for the Wolverhampton outfit.

The visitors hit back, though, when Simon Grayson's cross into the opposite area was punched away by Mike Stowell - currently First Team Coach & Goalkeeper Coach at Leicester - into Iwan Roberts' path.

While Leicester will have been buoyed by that leveller, they were behind again before the interval as a superb header from Brian Law restored Wolves' advantage at a raucous Molineux.

The next twist of a helter-skelter clash came in the second half as Academy graduate and emerging talent Emile Heskey got his head on the end of a Garry Parker corner to make it 2-2.

With around 10 minutes remaining, tension was in the air, as the travelling Blue Army feared another heartbreaking end to affairs, but it was the Foxes who inflicted the pain on their hosts.

Jamie Lawrence's low ball into the penalty box was met by Heskey on the edge of the six-yard box before the 18-year-old's first-time effort, with the outside of his boot, evaded Stowell in the Wolves net.

After finally getting off the mark as Leicester manager, O'Neill said at full-time: "We played very well tonight. We were twice behind in the game, but we came roaring back.

"We scored three goals and I was just telling the players in the dressing room, when we score three, we're still not sure of victory! That's what it's like at Leicester these days, but the lads played brilliantly."

It would prove to be the first of many successes for O'Neill at Filbert Street as the Kilrea-born manager guided the Club to promotion at the end of the 1995/96 campaign, before lifting two League Cups, enjoying a duo of European ventures and securing four successive Premier League top-half finishes.

City: Poole, Hill (Whitlow), Carey, Walsh, Grayson, Lewis, Lawrence, Parker, Taylor, Heskey, Roberts.

Goals: Heskey (2), Roberts.

Attendance: 27,381.

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