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    Vardy fires Foxes to first win of Van Nistelrooy's reign

    New Leicester boss off to a victorious start, piling pressure on Lopetegui

    Updated: 2024-12-05 09:17
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    Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy celebrates winning his first game in charge, beating West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday. AFP

    It was a fine first win for Ruud van Nistelrooy, and perhaps one final defeat for embattled Julen Lopetegui.

    Leicester marked Van Nistelrooy's first match in charge by surging to a 3-1 win over Lopetegui's West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday.

    Van Nistelrooy, the former Manchester United striker, is back in English soccer, this time as manager of Leicester, which is taking something of a gamble on the Dutchman after his brief, but impressive, spell as interim coach at United in the wake of Erik ten Hag's sacking.

    He faces the tough task of keeping Leicester, one of the top candidates for relegation, in the Premier League. For that to happen, he's likely to need goals from Jamie Vardy — and the 37-year-old former England international delivered immediately.

    Nine years after breaking Van Nistelrooy's record for scoring in consecutive games, Vardy scored the first goal of the Dutchman's tenure with the Foxes by beating the offside trap and slotting home the opener with less than two minutes gone.

    Morocco midfielder Bilal El Khannouss supplied the pass for Vardy's goal and scored himself with a low shot in the 61st minute to make it 2-0. Patson Daka added a third for Leicester in the 90th minute, before West Ham clawed back a stoppage-time consolation, courtesy of substitute Niclas Fullkrug.

    "We are very happy with the new manager," El Khannouss said of Van Nistelrooy. "He arrived two days ago, and there's a new dynamic in the group."

    Van Nistelrooy praised the "spirit and energy" of his team.

    "The foundation for us going forward is everyone working their socks off, fighting for every inch and defending together," he said. "We can look further then, and they did that in an unbelievable way."

    This dismal result for West Ham came three days after its 5-2 thrashing at home by Arsenal, which piled more pressure of Lopetegui early in the former Spain and Real Madrid coach's first season with the London club.

    West Ham's disgruntled traveling fans chanted "You're getting sacked in the morning" toward Lopetegui during the second half — even though his team dominated large parts of the game, but only had one goal to show from 31 attempts.

    "We're very frustrated, but in the same way, I can say nothing about the players — they fight until the end," Lopetegui said. "It's not easy to explain football some days."

    West Ham has lost seven of its 14 games so far, and is in 14th place in the 20-team league, one spot above Leicester.

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