On Saturday, Brendan Rogers handed Nigerian international Kelechi Iheanacho a rare start against Crystal Palace.
The forward rewarded the nmanaher with a good performance as he also got hi name on the score sheet for the Foxes.
Iheanacho gave Leicester the lead before Jamie Vardy scored twice in the 3-0 win against Roy Hodgson side.
It was Kelechi Iheanacho's ninth league start and 16th appearance for the Foxes.
The opening goal from the former Manchester City forward was his fifth league goal of the season and 10th goals since moved to the King Power Stadium.
Vardy was presented with an award by his manager, Brendan Rodgers for his loyal services upfront for the Foxes.
Kelechi Iheanacho decided to show love to his striking partner, Jamie Vardy who recorded another landmark for Leicester.
Taking to his Twitter page, he snaps of the forward and captioned:
“Back to winning ways. Congrats to @vardy7 on reaching the 100 club."
The English international became the first Leicester player to score a century of goals in the Premier League.
Vardy now ranks fourth in the club’s history after Arthur Chandler (204), Ernie Hine (149) and Arthur Lochhead (105).
Jamie Vardy, 33, has scored 128 goals for Leicester since he joined from Fleetwood Town in 2011.
The 33 years old has been a prolific forward for the Foxes with a total of 190 career club goals in 388 appearances from 2011 till date.
If you recall that he was instrumental to Leicester City winning the Premier League title under Claudio Rainier in 2015.
He is currently topping the goal scorers chat with 21 goals in this current campaign with six games left to play.
Leicester City travel to the Emirates on Tuesday to face Arsenal.
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