James Maddison breathed life into Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester reign with a display that may hasten the end of Steve Cooper’s tenure at Nottingham Forest.
Maddison scored twice, had a hand in the others and teased Forest all night with his guile and vision. Somehow, Gareth Southgate continues to ignore him, despite England’s problems of creativity. He helped Leicester off the bottom of the table and sent Forest down there instead.
Back in February, Leicester were thrashed 4-1 by Forest in the FA Cup, but here they took revenge by claiming their first win of the season. Had this one gone the other way, who knows what Rodgers’ fate might have been in the coming days?