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Leicester City 1 Charlton 2: Foxes suffer blow to promotion bid

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Leicester City 1 Charlton 2: Foxes  suffer blow to promotion bid This is Leicestershire --

Substitute Danny Haynes put a severe dent in Leicester City's automatic promotion hopes last night.

The Charlton man scored a stunning winner which inflicted City's second consecutive league defeat.

Haynes scored with an instinctive half-volley from 20 yards out to ensure Charlton boss Chris Powell's return to City, where he began his coaching career, was a happy one and completed a miserable 10 days for City boss Nigel Pearson.

Pearson was awarded the manager of the month award after City won five consecutive games to move into the top two in January, but since the turn of the month they have suffered an alarming slump in form.

After the defeat at rock-bottom Peterborough, they dropped out of the FA Cup at the hands of Huddersfield and, last night, suffered more disappointment as Haynes and former City striker Yann Kermorgant scored the goals that stunned the home side.

The tide is turning against City as results elsewhere meant that their hopes of finishing in the top two are out of their own hands as the gap is now nine points.

City may have two games in hand in the race for the Premier League, but both those spare fixtures, next week's visit of Blackburn and the trip to runaway league leaders Cardiff in April, are incredibly tough.

City could just not get their passing game going last night as they frequently squandered possession and, more alarmingly, were second best when it came to 50-50 challenges.

After picking up just one point from their previous five games, Charlton should have been fragile at the King Power Stadium, where City have such a good record.

There was something inevitable about Kermorgant's goal. Cast as the villain after his arrogant penalty miss in the play-off semi-final in Cardiff nearly three years ago, the Frenchman has returned to haunt City by scoring in both games against his former club this season, achieving in two games a goal more than he did in his City career.

City huffed and puffed but struggled to create any clear-cut chances until Chris Wood, returning after missing the last two games through injury, stabbed home his eighth goal since joining the club in January.

Pearson's men looked the more likely to go on and claim the winner until Haynes scored completely out of the blue. Reported by This is 3 days ago.

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