LONDON, Sept 16: A spectacular volley from Lilian Nalis, a double from Paul Dickov and a header from Jamie Scowcroft gave Leicester City an easy 4-0 win over a poor Leeds United side in the Premier League on Monday.

Leicester’s first win of the season takes them up seven places to 11th, level on five points with five other clubs including Leeds, who slipped three places to 14th.

Leicester made five changes with Marcus Bent and Craig Hignett given their first full outing, while Leeds also had two debutants in the shape of Brazilian World Cup winner Roque Junior and fellow defender Didier Domi.

The home side took the lead on 20 minutes when Nalis struck a dipping left-foot volley into the top right-hand corner of Paul Robinson’s net from 25 metres for his first goal since joining from Italian club Chievo Verona.

It went some way to making up for his headed own goal against Chelsea on the second Saturday of the season.

The home side doubled their lead three minutes later when striker Dickov chested the ball down just inside the penalty area and rifled a low right-foot volley that flew past the despairing dive of Robinson.

Instead, it was Leicester who looked like adding to their goal tally with Robinson tipping over a header from Scowcroft and full-back Ben Thatcher sending another powerful header against the bar.

With 20 minutes to go Reid introduced teenager Aaron Lennon and Lucas Radebe replaced Roque Junior with 10 minutes left.

But the South African defender was at fault as Dickov rounded off a slick passing move to grab his second goal on 83 minutes as Radebe slipped outside the penalty area allowing the Leicester striker to curl a right-foot shot into the net.

Scowcroft wrapped up Leicester’s first win back in the top flight by rising unmarked on the edge of the six metre box to head home a Muzzy Izzet free kick for their fourth goal on the stroke of full time.—Reuters