The eleventh round of the English Premier League season got underway with Saturday’s early match between Stoke City and Leicester City at the Bet 365 Stadium, with Leicester twice taking the lead, only for Stoke to strike back with equalisers. Vincente Iborra opened the scoring for Leicester with his first goal for the club, and then headed over from a good chance after Xerdan Shaqiri had equalised for Stoke before half time, before Riyad Mahrez restored Leicester’s lead with a fine individual run down the right wing and byeline resulting in cutting into the six yard box and firing past Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland, and Peter Crouch coming off of the bench for Stoke to head home the equaliser past Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichal, who then made a fine save with the last touch of the match to hold on to a point.
In Saturday’s later games, Huddersfield entertained West Bromwich at the John Smith Stadium, and won the match 1-nil with the only goal of the game from Rajiv van la Parra, though they had to defend resolutely to keep out the visitors and hold onto the 3 points once Christopher Schindler had been red carded; Newcastle hosted Bournemouth at St James’ Park, with the visitors claiming the 3 points from a 1-nil victory courtesy of Steve Cook’s injury time goal, a win which moved them out of the relegation places; Southampton entertained Burnley at St Mary’s Stadium, with the visitors collecting the 3 points from a 1-nil away win, the goal being scored by substitute Sam Vokes, the 3 points strengthening Burnley’s 7th place position though moving them up to equal points with Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool; Swansea entertained Brighton at the Liberty Stadium, and were defeated 1-nil by the visitors, courtesy of Glenn Murray’s 4th goal in 3 games, and consigning Swansea to the relegation places after their sixth odd goal defeat of the season, and a record of only one home win of the season.
