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- Updated: December 26, 2016
Everton beat Leicester City 2-0 at the King Power Stadium on Boxing Day to increase the pressure on the struggling Premier League champions.
The visitors opened the scoring through Kevin Mirallas six minutes into the second half, before Romelu Lukaku’s injury-time strike wrapped up the points.
As a result, Claudio Ranieri’s side have slipped to 16th in the table, just three points above the relegation zone, while Everton have moved up to seventh place.
Leicester left both Riyad Mahrez and Danny Drinkwater on the substitutes’ bench, while they also brought in Shinji Okazaki, Ben Chilwell and Marcin Wasilewski for the suspended Jamie Vardy, Christian Fuchs and Robert Huth.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman benched Ross Barkley and Enner Valencia after their last-gasp loss to Liverpool in the Merseyside derby, with Gareth Barry and Mason Holgate coming in, while Joel Robles and Kevin Mirallas replaced the injured Maarten Stekelenburg and James McCarthy.
However, in a desperately disappointing first half, one of the few highlights was the sight of the suspended Vardy wearing one of the face …
