Leicester 0-2 Fulham: Ruud van Nistelrooy under mounting pressure as Foxes slump to seventh straight loss

Emile Smith Rowe and Adama Traore struck successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Fulham bushed Leicester 2-0, inflicting a seventh successive Premier League decision connected the hosts.

The Foxes provided different coagulated first-half showing but yet paid the terms for a deficiency of prime and failed to larn their lessons from their midweek second-half illness to Crystal Palace in a akin showing successful beforehand of their ain fans.

The hosts' antiaircraft fragility showed aft the interval and they conceded aboriginal for the 2nd clip successful the abstraction of a week courtesy of Smith-Rowe's 4th extremity of the campaign.

A hostile location ambiance did not amended Leicester's show and the Cottagers ensured a instrumentality to winning ways arsenic substitute Traore handed Ruud van Nistelrooy's relegation-threatened squad a seventh nonaccomplishment from his archetypal 10 games successful each competitions.

The Leicester brag was besides the people of antagonistic chants from the location stands conscionable a fewer weeks aft goalkeeper Danny Ward had received the aforesaid attraction from his ain fans.

The hosts were speedy retired of the traps and were astir rewarded for their accelerated commencement but goalkeeper Bernd Leno was alert to support retired Jordan Ayew from adjacent scope wrong a minute.

Leno was brought into enactment again arsenic Timothy Castagne aimed to swipe Jamie Vardy's teasing transportation retired for a country but inadvertently sent it goalwards and the Fulham stopper was speedy disconnected his people to bat it behind.

Leicester defender Victor Kristiansen decided to task up the tract and skilfully weaved his mode into the container but could not find the target.

It took 36 minutes for Fulham to airs a threat. Calvin Bassey recovered abstraction connected the borderline of the container and whistled an effort conscionable wide of the acold station earlier Antonee Robinson recovered the side-netting.

Fulham failed to truly occupation Leicester successful the archetypal 45 minutes but tense location supporters gasped erstwhile the visitors came forward, with Robinson and Bassey seeing efforts blocked by Bilal El Khannouss.

Leicester were caught acold pursuing the half-time interruption arsenic Fulham deed the beforehand 3 minutes aft the restart.

The hosts were divided unfastened from Raul Jimenez's agelong shot implicit the apical which recovered Harry Wilson, helium cleverly kept the shot successful play and his transportation was nodded connected by Sasa Lukic and into the way of Smith Rowe, who tapped into an bare net.

Boos rang astir the stadium erstwhile El Khannouss was withdrawn from the action, with chants of 'you don't cognize what you're doing' aimed astatine the Leicester dugout.

Fulham further dampened the temper wrong the King Power Stadium with a 2nd successful the 68th minute. Wilson's shot into the container picked retired an unmarked Traore, whose first-time effort recovered the bottommost country of the net.