Premier League: Jesse Lingard Leads Scoring In West Ham's Win Against Leicester

Jesse Lingard led West Hammer to a 3-1 home victory against Leicester City as the club climbed to the fourth position of the top four of the Premier League and closely trailing their opponents by just a point. 

Hammers' victory dropped Chelsea to fifth place after they slid to sixth following game win Liverpool and Chelsea on Saturday. Kelechi Iheanacho did make an effort to try to rewrite the fate of the game for Leicester by scoring twice to lead the fight-back in the second half that yet ended in defeat to Hammer. 

Manchester United loanee Lingard put the side in the lead with a superb low-cut volley from the edge of the box after Vladimir Coufal found him with a cut-back. 

Lingard doubled the double by tapping a through pass from Jarrod Bowen following a fast break inspired by Issa Diop. Bowen later added the third minutes after the break when Tomas Soucek set him off for a tap in from close range. 

Iheanacho's first goal came off a defensive flop that gave him a chance for a slam shot that beat Fabianski to the net. After Ricardo Pereira failed a convert a glaring chance from in the box, Iheanacho wasted no time slamming into the net Ricardo's cross in the injury-time. 

Hammers, in the end, earned their first double victory against Leicester in the Premier League since 1999-2000 as Foxes suffered their first back-to-back defeat of the season after their last in November against Liverpool and Fulham.