Kelechi Iheanacho and Jonny Evans were also on target for Leicester, which served up a performance akin to those which produced a memorable title run in 2015-16. The result leaves Leicester second in the standings on 38 points from 16 games, eight adrift of runaway leader Liverpool and six ahead of third-placed defending champion Manchester City.

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers heaped praise on his players. “I thought they were amazing, it is a historical day for the club and the performance warranted that,” he was quoted as saying by the BBC. “We scored all types of goals and kept going to the end.”