FourFourTwo.com's Joe Brewin was at the King Power Stadium to see Leicester's new Dragon Slayer slice up Porto, and combine with his new team-mates to great effect once again
“Slimani is not a player we can ignore,” Porto manager Nuno Espirito Santo had admitted on Monday. “He is a striker, a goalscorer, and we must control him.”
Porto fans have long grown to loathe the Algerian hitman in a very short space of time. He hasn’t earned his ‘Dragon Slayer’ mantle for nothing – six goals in eight previous tussles against the Portuguese giants for Sporting did that – so in winning this game for Leicester Slimani added No.