Jamie Vardy's Having a Party!

Barnsley 0 - 3 Leicester City

A Jamie Vardy brace helped Leicester to extend their unbeaten run to 15 league games at Oakwell this evening. The Foxes have not lost a league game since 7th December. In that 15 game period, they have kept 8 clean sheets, scored 34 goals and accumulated 39 points. Leicester are in imperious, irresistible form. Tonight's result was City's third successive 3-0 victory and underlines their relentless march towards the Premier League. At this rate, it will be over before the end of March - City are 15 points clear of 3rd place with 12 games remaining. 

Barnsley were never in the game this evening. By the time Vardy fired Leicester ahead in the 21st minute, the Foxes could have been 3-0 up. Nugent flicked the ball into Vardy's path and the former Fleetwood man fired the ball into the bottom left hand corner. The only criticism of City's first half display was that they were unable to extend their lead further - they were certainly more clinical in the second half. In the 58th minute, Nugent again provided an excellent through ball to Vardy. The striker was pushed wide and dinked a clever cross into Drinkwater, who volleyed home from 6 yards. 

Drinkwater epitomised everything that has been good about the Foxes this season. Seconds before his goal, he had been back in his own penalty area helping to clear the ball. Vardy doubled his tally just three minutes later, this time Mahrez played the striker in on goal. Vardy nudged the ball around the goalkeeper and rolled it into the back of the net for his 15th goal of the season. With QPR losing at Brighton and Derby failing to win at home to Bolton, Leicester City are now very close to the finishing line. They sit on 77 points with 12 games to play. 86 points is the highest tally managed by a 3rd placed team in this division over the last ten seasons. By that measure, City need just 3 more wins...