Nigerian youth sensation and Leicester City’s new signing, Kelechi Iheanacho, helped his team to recover from a goal down to beat German Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach 2-1 at the King Power stadium in their final warm up before the start of the season in England.
Borrusia Monchengladbach took a second half lead when Thorgan Hazard gave them the lead, but Leicester City drew level through Jamie Vardy who rifled home a sweet volley off a well weighted over the top pass.
Coach Craig Shakespeare handed a debut to big money buy Kelechi Iheanacho, and the Nigerian wasted no time in making his presence felt by supplying the fine pass to Vardy to double the Foxes lead.
However minutes after the assist he was substituted after picking up a knock 15 minutes from full time.
Leicester City coach, Craig Shakespeare, praised the youngster for the role he played in their comeback 2-1 win.
Speaking at full-time, Shakespeare told LCFC TV: “He’s fine in there. He’s getting a bit of a ribbing from the players in terms of him coming off.
“You can see the impact he’s had. We’re just really making sure that was more of a precaution. He hasn’t trained very often; he hasn’t been able to because of circumstance.”
