Third-placed Leicester's night began badly when defender Jonny Evans was injured in the warm-up. It rapidly deteriorated when a mistake by Caglar Soyuncu allowed Joe Willock to put Newcastle in front after 22 minutes with his fourth goal in his last four games.
Marc Albrighton and Kelechi Iheanacho scored late goals and Dubravka made a sensational save from Ayoze Perez as Leicester threatened an unlikely comeback. Newcastle climbed to 13th place with 39 points from 35 games and are 12 points clear of third-from bottom Fulham who have four games left. "We made so many mistakes and you can't afford to do that," Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers said."It's a period of the season where you need to be super concentrated but we lacked concentration and when you do that against good players they will punish you and that's what happened."Newcastle could have scored three times before they actually did with Kasper Schmeichel making one outstanding save to keep out Allan Saint-Maximin's point blank effort.
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