Leicester City vs Notts County

Plus: Free-flowing Aston Villa trounce Walsall, Crystal Palace edge nine-goal thriller with Millwall, while Brentford ease past Boreham Wood.

But Jesurun Rak-Sakyi tapped in at the back post to finally separate the two teams in a sunny south London. Jake O'Brien and substitute Christian Benteke gave Patrick Vieira's side a 4-2 lead in the second half but two quickfire goals put the Championship club level with ten minutes to go. Goals from Leon Bailey and Cameron Archer gave Villa a first half lead, before Ollie Watkins came off the bench to score in the second half.

Leicester suffered an embarrassing start to their pre-season campaign as they suffered a 2-1 defeat against non-league Notts County, despite scoring first.

Brentford managed to keep a clean-sheet during their first pre-season outing as they cruised to a 2-0 victory over Boreham Wood. New arrival Aaron Hickey watched on from the stands but is likely to feature as Brentford travel to Germany for their next batch of pre-season fixtures prior to the start of the Premier League season. Villa will face a more difficult test in their next pre-season match as they travel to Australia to play Leeds United in Australia on July 17. Over 9,000 fans watched on at the Bank's Stadium as the Premier League side cruised to their first pre-season victory in relatively comfortable circumstances. England's Ollie Watkins was one of a number of players to get on the scoresheet in Walsall Steven Gerrard got his first pre-season game as Aston Villa manager off to the perfect start as his side played out a faultless 4-0 win over League Two side Walsall.

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The National League side will provide a good first test for Brendan Rodgers' side, with several internationals still yet to return to the fold. Full highlights and reaction will be available on LCFC.com and across @LCFC on social media in the hours to follow before live coverage is provided of all Leicester City pre-season games this summer. Leicester City begin their pre-season schedule against Notts County this afternoon and supporters will be able to watch the match for free.

A well-taken opener from Harvey Barnes had the Foxes ahead on 31 minutes, however Notts County scored in either half through Kairo Mitchell and Aden Baldwin ...

Then came a crashing attempt from Iheanacho, who curled the ball onto Brooks’ right-hand post with around five minutes to play. At the other end, youngster Shane Flynn produced a timely challenge to halt an attack from the visitors. Next to threaten, this time down the right flank, was forward Callum Wright, however his tempting delivery avoided everyone and Notts County were able to tidy up.

Live analysis of Leicester City's opening pre-season match as they take on National League side Notts County behind closed doors at their Seagrave training ...

It's from a tight angle, and the ball just rolls wide of the post. Iheanacho will captain a team of players from the development squad and academy. He is yet to even make an appearance for the development squad, having been with the Under-18s for all of last season. One of the youngest players in this first-half team, Shane Flynn, has made a good start. There's good build-up down the right and Daka finds Wright inside the box. They've had to deal with a lot of balls into the box this second half from corners and from open play, but so far they are coping with them pretty well. Here's a reminder of the second-half team, with Iheanacho the only senior player involved. He sets himself and bends a brilliant shot onto the post from 20 yards. Wormleighton, usually a right-back is playing at centre-back with the other trialist Appiah. Hughes dinks a ball into Iheanacho and he is allowed to turn. There will be a fair few development squad players involved across the squad too, with Rodgers welcoming plenty into his senior training squad over the first two weeks of pre-season. And there are expected to be plenty of players featuring for Brendan Rodgers' side.

Senior man Kelechi Iheanacho was the only Nigerian to feature for Leicester City while compatriot Wilfred Ndidi missed the defeat to English fifth-tier club ...

The second team came on just before the start of the second half with Nigeria's Iheanacho as the captain. With Leicester behind, Iheanacho captained the second team in the second half and came close to earning the Foxes a share of the spoils late on at the Leicester City training ground on Saturday. Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho came on as a second-half substitute to captain the Foxes.

In Leicester's preseason opener, Notts County took advantage of the Foxes' weaknesses on the free kick and beat them by that means after starting from ...

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