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Late Surge Sees Foxes Claim Swansea Victory

We showed grit and determination to battle out a 3-1 victory over Swansea City in south west Wales on Saturday.

2025-10-04T17:11+01:00

by Sam Stevens

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04 Oct, 2025

from Swansea.com Stadium

Late Surge Sees Foxes Claim Swansea Victory

We showed grit and determination to battle out a 3-1 victory over Swansea City in south west Wales on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-10-04T17:11+01:00

Late Surge Sees Foxes Claim Swansea Victory

We showed grit and determination to battle out a 3-1 victory over Swansea City in south west Wales on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-10-04T17:11+01:00

Late Surge Sees Foxes Claim Swansea Victory

We showed grit and determination to battle out a 3-1 victory over Swansea City in south west Wales on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-10-04T17:11+01:00

Late Surge Sees Foxes Claim Swansea Victory

We showed grit and determination to battle out a 3-1 victory over Swansea City in south west Wales on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-10-04T17:11+01:00

Stunners from Jordan James and Abdul Fatawu in each half, either side of Adam Idah's penalty for the Swans, was the foundation, as Jannik Vestergaard made sure late on for the Foxes.

After four draws in a row, Martí Cifuentes and the travelling Blue Army will have been forgiven for contemplating a fifth when Idah levelled matters, but City shifted up a gear late on to rise to third in the Sky Bet Championship table.

James gets us started

Cifuentes has called on his players to ‘find solutions’ to carve out more goalscoring opportunities. In the past two matches, we’ve created 29 shots on goal, but only two of them were on target. Within eight minutes, James provided a warning to the Swans defence, sending a flash shot from the edge of the box over Lawrence Vigouroux’s crossbar. The home side, managed by ex-City man Alan Sheehan, did have chances too – Jisung Eom’s curler straight at Jakub Stolarczyk, with the Pole also getting behind Ronald Pereira’s low drive.

Leicester’s breakthrough was just 14 minutes in the making, mind you. James – playing in Wales ahead of an international break he hopes to spend with the Red Dragons – was the architect. Picking up the ball on the left-most angle of the box, he took a touch to cut inside, before curling a stunner across the face of goal and into the far corner. That moment of magic gave us a springboard in Swansea. While Stolarczyk was again called into action to deny Josh Tymon from a tight angle, Jeremy Monga – after skilfully skipping past Swans skipper Ben Cabango – was only thwarted by a brave Liam Cullen block.

A low corner from James, meanwhile, caught the home side out, with Abdul Fatawu emerging from a busy pack in the middle of the box to get a shot away himself. This time it was Josh Key who leapt in to divert it away from Vigouroux’s net. Wout Faes, on the other hand, also went close, nodding Luke Thomas’ lofted free-kick, from deep on the left channel, the wrong side of the near post. Although Swansea did have their moments, City seemed in relative control as Vestargaard’s quick thinking prevented Eom’s drilled delivery from reaching Zan Vipotnik in the middle.

Building momentum

Into the second half, when Eom’s corner bounced up inside the penalty area, it was fair game for anyone to get a boot to it. Cullen was the nearest man in a white shirt to it, but the Wales forward had his head in his hands after failing to prod it beyond Stolarczyk.

City's response was for Fatawu to square the ball across to Monga, lurking centrally on the fringes of the hosts' box, before the Academy graduate's fizzed effort required a save from Vigouroux. Stolarczyk's biggest test on the south Wales coast came just over 10 minutes into the second half. Ronald dragged the ball back through a congested area, into the path of a galloping Vipotnik, but our No.1 was alert to the danger and made a superb point-blank stop.

Cameron Burgess also headed wide shortly afterwards, while Luke Thomas calmly snatched the ball out from under Vipotnik's feet just as the Slovenian was about to pull the trigger. As the tide seemed to be turning, some possession gave Leicester a stronger second-half foothold after the hour. James, eager for more after his brilliant opener, scraped his boots over the ball to buy himself some room, later trying to stroke it in at the far bottom corner. An inch to the right, and it would probably have bounced in, but it came back off the post and out.

Digging deep

That momentum was dented, mind you, when referee David Webb pointed to the Leicester penalty spot, penalising a challenge by Faes on Ethan Galbraith. The Belgian, and indeed his team-mates, were frustrated by the decision, but Idah stepped up in any case to send Stolarczyk the wrong way and level matters. It was turning into a test of character for City, on the back of four draws, determined not to have to settle for another. Another sprinkle of Fatawu stardust soon had us back in front. The Ghanaian danced onto his left foot and planted it through the ball, watching it sail over the Swans backline and into the top corner in front of nearly 2,000 Foxes fans.

They were nearly dancing again moments later. Fatawu, on the half-way line, spotted Vigouroux off his line - but not excessively. Perhaps the only player on the pitch who'd even contemplate it, he went for goal. It cannoned back off the crossbar, denying him a Goal of the Season contender, and Daka very nearly headed the rebound in too, nodding just over.

Our third was the result of chaos in the Swansea box. The ball was bouncing around, the home side unable to clear, but it eventually dropped for Vestergaard to glance it past Vigouroux, the 'keeper getting a touch on it, but not enough to stop the Dane's header. Substitute Julián Carranza, at the second attempt, also struck the post late on, piling on the pressure. With Wrexham's late equaliser still on the mind, this was more like it from Cifuentes' men, getting the points over the line in ruthless fashion.

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