Iheanacho hails Leicester City’s hard fought win at Sheffield United

Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho has expressed delight after he helped his club side, Leicester City to a hard-fought victory over Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on Sunday.

Iheanacho was thrown into the game in the 69th minute by coach Brendan Rodgers as a replacement for Ayoze Perez.

Brila.net said that the Nigerian added creativity and spark to the Foxes attack when he came and they did score the winner with the last kick of the game.

His introduction also allowed Jamie Vardy, who scored the winner, to have more space to penetrate for the remaining 20 minutes.

In his post-match reaction, The former Manchester City forward said his side deserves to win the maximum points.

“Great fight boys well deserved 3 points” the Super forward wrote onTwitter.

Ayoze Perez opened the scoring for Leicester City, but Oliver McBurnie leveled the scores for Chris Wilder’s men 12 minutes later.

The win put an end to Leicester City's run of two defeats in the last seven days and helped them move to fourth on the premier league table.

Meanwhile, Iheanacho’s compatriot Wilfred Ndidi also featured in the game and it was his first Premier League appearance in two months.