Jamie Vardy
wrote his name into the record books on Saturday, becoming the first player to
score in 11 successive Premier League matches as his Leicester City team drew
1-1 with Manchester United at the King Power Stadium.
The England
striker, who began his run against Bournemouth on August 29 and has now netted
13 times in 11 games, struck an angled shot in the 24th minute to eclipse the
mark established by United's Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003.
Vardy is now
one match away from equalling the all-time English top-flight consecutive
scoring run of 12 matches set by Sheffield United's Irish forward Jimmy Dunne
in Division One in 1931-32.
Although
Vardy took his goal tally for the season to 14, Leicester were knocked off top
spot as Bastian Schweinsteiger's header at the end of the first half secured a
point for United.
The
28-year-old Vardy, who was playing minor-league football for Fleetwood Town
only three years ago, told Sky Sports: "I am obviously delighted but the
main thing was the performance and I think we put in a very good shift
today".
Asked about
the buildup to the match he said: "If I'd let it get to me it would affect
my performance so I have just been keeping my head down.
"It was
another game we wanted to get three points from but I think a draw was probably
a fair result."
Leicester
are now second after Manchester City returned to the top on goal difference by
beating Southampton 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium.
Kevin De
Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Aleksandar Kolarov were on target for the 2012 and
2014 champions while Shane Long replied for Southampton.
Manchester
City and Leicester have 29 points from 14 matches with United third on 28.
Arsenal, who
visit Norwich City on Sunday, are fourth with 26 while Tottenham Hotspur, who
host champions Chelsea the same day, are fifth on 24.
Leicester
manager Claudio Ranieri was more upbeat.
"We had
two objectives today, to win the match and to help Jamie, but we took one point
which is okay for us and Jamie broke the record," he said.
"It is
an incredible achievement. This fantastic man is not only the record scorer but
he works so hard."
United
manager Louis van Gaal said he took skipper Wayne Rooney off in the second half
because he had a slight injury but added that he was disappointed with his
team's attacking play.
"I told
my players these are the kind of matches you have to win if you are going to be
champions," said van Gaal.
Crystal
Palace were on fire up front at Selhurst Park, moving up to sixth place on 22
points as manager Alan Pardew saw his team thrash his old Newcastle United side
5-1 after the visitors scored first but ended up back in the relegation zone.
Second from
bottom Newcastle have 10 points, the same as Bournemouth who staged a dramatic
comeback to draw 3-3 with Everton having trailed 2-0.
Villa lost
3-2 at home to Watford, while Sunderland climbed out of the relegation zone
with a 2-0 victory over Stoke City who had centre half Ryan Shawcross sent off
in the second half.
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