Leicester City 3-0 Preston North: Foxes demolition sends Enzo Maresca's side top

Leicester City re-topped the Championship table with a deserved 3-0 win over Preston as a Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall brace and a single strike from Kelechi Iheanacho earned the hosts a fifth consecutive league victory.

Just 10 matches gone and Leicester supporters already believe they have one foot back in the Premiership as the Foxes produced another dominant, but not perfect performance against a stubborn Preston outfit who are now wounded after losing back-to-back games having previously been the only unbeaten team in the division after eight matches.

Enzo Maresca's debut campaign as dugout chief couldn't be going any better. Nine wins, one anomalous defeat, Jamie Vardy back in form, and everything running as smoothly as the luxury vehicles that pack out the players car park. If the Championship is billed as the toughest division in the world to get out of, then the Foxes are a PHD student sitting a primary school exam.

Everything Leicester did was controlled and unrushed, even when they had all their outfield players camping inside the opposition half. The only thing missing was a goal. No concern around the ground amongst supporters who knew that would come sooner or later.

Harry Winks, brought in from the cold at Spurs and handed a career lifeline in the Midlands was the composer in an orchestra fledgling with talent. Stephy Mavididi and Wilfried Ndidi provided constant danger down the left-wing, while James Justin and Abdul Fatawu did the same on the other flank. In contrast, the lonesome centre forward figure of Milutin Osmajic was Preston's main attacking outlet.

Crosses into the box were the first method of attack, intricate passes through the middle were the second and if neither achieved the desired outcome then