Leicester City 1-1 Ipswich Town: Jeremy Sarmiento equaliser prevents Foxes re-establishing 10-point lead at Championship summit
Report and highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Leicester City and Ipswich Town at the King Power Stadium on Monday; Leif Davis' own goal had put the Foxes in front, but Jeremy Sarmiento struck a late leveller for the Tractor Boys
Digital football journalist @DanLong__
Monday 22 January 2024 23:04, UK
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Leicester spurned the chance to re-establish a 10-point lead at the top of the Championship as Ipswich struck a late leveller to earn a 1-1 draw on Monday night.
Leif Davis' unfortunate own goal after just over half an hour had put the Foxes on course to put last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Coventry behind them.
But after Massimo Luongo's dipping strike was only parried by Mads Hermansen, Jeremy Sarmiento pounced to tuck home the valuable equaliser with 89 minutes on the clock.
That ensured the pair — who have almost exclusively occupied the top two spots throughout the campaign -
could not be separated again,less than a month after a 1-1 draw at Portman Road, when Sam Morsy haunted the Foxes with a 93rd-minute equaliser.
Leicester remain seven points clear at the top of the pile, but only seven points clear of the Tractor Boys, who climb back above Southampton into second.
Leicester might not have had manager Enzo Maresca in the dugout — owing to the Italian's touchline ban for collecting a third yellow card of the season against Coventry — but his absence made little difference to start with; the Foxes were as dominant as ever from the off.
While Ipswich barely had the time or space to fashion an attack, Leicester asserted themselves and — five minutes after Hamza Choudhury tested the water with a powerful strike that Vaclav Hladky dived to push
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