Overview
- Ben Nelson headed in from Jordan James’ free-kick on 13 minutes before Abdul Fatawu volleyed a second later in the first half.
- Jakub Stolarczyk saved Emil Riis’s 63rd-minute penalty to preserve Leicester’s two-goal cushion.
- The victory ended Leicester’s league winless run dating back to January 5 and stopped a sequence of four straight home defeats.
- Bristol City’s slump deepened to three successive league losses and four defeats in all competitions following their FA Cup exit to Port Vale.
- Head coach Gerhard Struber called Bristol City’s first-half performance unacceptable and said he was really angry, as Riis’s miss marked the club’s first penalty in over a year.