Sam Vokes grabbed a late winner as Burnley piled more pressure on struggling Premier League champions Leicester City on Tuesday. With the match seemingly heading for a goalless draw, Vokes hooked home from close range off a headed knockdown from Michael Keane to secure Burnley’s fifth successive home win. The ball hit the Wales striker’s hand before he scored but referee Mike Dean dismissed Leicester’s appeals.
“It was a handball. It was for everybody, for the television, but not for the referee,” Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri told. “The referee is the boss. He didn’t see it and we lost – in this moment everything is wrong against us, including the decision of the referee.”
Burnley have taken everything except one of their 29 points at Turf Moor this season while Leicester, with 21 points from 23 games, still can’t seem to win far from home in the momentum battle and are currently perilously close to the drop zone.
The Foxes are sixteenth, level on points with Swansea underneath them and just two clear of the transfer places.
They now have the worst record after 23 games of any dominant top-flight champions and Tuesday’s annihilation was the first occasion when they had suffered three successive Premier League losses under Ranieri.
Leicester have not won away since they beat Sunderland 2-0 at the Stadium of Light in April 2016, when they were well on their way to a children’s story title.
