Van Nistelrooy-powered Leicester fight back for Brighton point

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Van Nistelrooy is happy with the progress of his Leicester side. EFE

Ruud van Nistelrooy's Leicester struck twice late on to deny Brighton in a 2-2 draw at the King Power on Sunday.

Matchday 15

Leicester

2-2

Brighton & Hove Albion

08 DEC 2024

Tariq Lamptey opened the scoring in spectacular fashion with a looping effort into the top corner from outside the box and Yankuba Minteh looked to have sealed the three points for the Seagulls.

But Jamie Vardy started the comeback on 86 minutes before teeing up Bobby De Cordova-Reid to snatch a point in stoppage time. "I think the players deserve the point. We deserved the point. Especially based on the second half, we really went for it," coach Rudd van Nistelrooy told reporters.

"We were 1-0 down, but right from the start of the second half, we were pressing. We were playing, we were going for goal. We did the defensive transitions really well to win the ball back quickly and playing forward from there, so excellent performance," he added.

Bournemouth also scored twice in the dying minutes to deny struggling Ipswich a first home win in the top flight for 22 years in a 2-1 win at Portman Road.