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This Week In History: City Delight, Arsenal Records & Leeds Comeback

The week of 9-15 November has previously produced some memorable Leicester City victories in league and cup, as detailed in the latest edition of This Week In History.

2020-11-14T11:54:00.000Z

by Sam Jones

Published

14 Nov, 2020

This Week In History: City Delight, Arsenal Records & Leeds Comeback

The week of 9-15 November has previously produced some memorable Leicester City victories in league and cup, as detailed in the latest edition of This Week In History.

Sam Jones

2020-11-14T11:54:00.000Z

This Week In History: City Delight, Arsenal Records & Leeds Comeback

The week of 9-15 November has previously produced some memorable Leicester City victories in league and cup, as detailed in the latest edition of This Week In History.

Sam Jones

2020-11-14T11:54:00.000Z

This Week In History: City Delight, Arsenal Records & Leeds Comeback

The week of 9-15 November has previously produced some memorable Leicester City victories in league and cup, as detailed in the latest edition of This Week In History.

Sam Jones

2020-11-14T11:54:00.000Z

This Week In History: City Delight, Arsenal Records & Leeds Comeback

The week of 9-15 November has previously produced some memorable Leicester City victories in league and cup, as detailed in the latest edition of This Week In History.

Sam Jones

2020-11-14T11:54:00.000Z

Monday 9 November marked 17 years since Leicester City’s famous 3-0 win away at Manchester City in the Premier League.

The Foxes moved out of the relegation zone with victory at what is now known as Etihad Stadium, thanks to goals from Jordan Stewart, Paul Dickov and Marcus Bent.

Stewart fired the visitors into a first-half lead via a powerful long-range strike that gave Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard no chance in the City goal.

Ex-City man Dickov came back to haunt his former club, fouled in the area by Sylvain Distin before stepping up to convert the resulting penalty seven minutes after the break.

His strike partner, Bent, got in on the act soon after, heading home Muzzy Izzet's cross to record a first away win of the campaign for Micky Adams' side, who also secured a second consecutive league victory.

On the same day, 16 years later, Leicester recorded another historic victory, beating Arsenal 2-0 at King Power Stadium.

It was a third straight home win over Arsenal for the Foxes, but it took until the 68th minute for Jamie Vardy to find the net, before James Maddison added a deserved second seven minutes later.

Vardy's opener came after good work from Harvey Barnes and Youri Tielemans, who fed City's No.9 to emphatically finish past Bernd Leno for his 11th goal of the campaign.

The impressive Maddison sealed all three points and a fourth successive win, firing in a low strike to move Leicester up to second in the Premier League table after 12 games of the 2019/20 season.

Rewinding back to 11 November 1998, Leicester produced a terrific late comeback to turn around a League Cup Fourth Round tie against Leeds United.

Still trailing to an early Harry Kewell goal with 88 minutes on the clock, talismanic midfielder Muzzy Izzet grabbed the equaliser at Filbert Street - lobbing Nigel Martyn from 30 yards out after capitalising on the 'keeper's headed clearance.

And the Foxes were not done there. In the final minute of normal time, Izzet was again involved, sent to the ground by Leeds defender Robert Molenaar, with referee Paul Durkin pointing to the spot.

Gary Parker stepped up and fired home the penalty to see Martin O'Neill's City through to the next round and send the majority of the 20,161-strong crowd home happy.

Going back another six years, to 15 November 1992, two goals from Julian Joachim were enough to see off Sunderland, as City looked to reach the Premier League for the very first time.

Coming into the game off the back of two straight defeats to Charlton Athletic and Tranmere Rovers, without finding the net, Brian Little's side produced a much improved performance at Roker Park.

Joachim, at just 18-years-old, was the hero in his first season as part of the first team, scoring twice for the visitors, firstly using his pace to get in behind the defence and lob the ball over the Sunderland 'keeper.

Peter Davenport's goal, fired into the top corner after Don Goodman cushioned the ball into his path, levelled the game up at 1-1 and straight after the break, the Black Cats pushed for a second. Davenport was inches away from finding it as his low shot hit the post.

However, Leicester made the home side pay for their missed chances when a corner flicked on by Ian Ormondroyd found its way to Steve Walsh, who touched the ball into the path of the unmarked Joachim to swivel and fire in his second of the afternoon.

The Foxes would go on to reach the First Division Play-Offs at the end of the 1992/93 season, losing 4-3 to Swindon Town in the final at Wembley.

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