Premier League round-up: Norwich pile pressure on Silva, Wolves climb and Leicester win again
Everton manager Marco Silva now faces huge pressure to keep hold of his job with the team languishing 15th in the table
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Your support makes all the difference.Foxes keep up pressure at the top
Jamie Vardy continued his sparkling run in front of goal as Leicester City beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 for their fifth consecutive Premier League victory on Saturday.
After failing to score with their first 11 attempts on goal at the Amex Stadium, Leicester returned from the half-time break to punish Brighton twice and stay second in the table, on 29 points and eight behind Liverpool.
Ayoze Perez, whose three previous league goals for Leicester came in a 9-0 rout of Southampton last month, scored the opener from close range on 64 minutes after Vardy broke through on the right flank.
Vardy then slotted home a penalty at the second attempt for his 12th goal of the league campaign in the 82nd minute.
The English striker's initial effort was saved but James Maddison's rebound was chalked off by VAR for encroachment by both teams.
Wolves surge goes on
Wolverhampton Wanderers surged up to fifth in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory over 10-man Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.
The visitors dominated the early exchanges and took the early lead with 20 minutes gone as Joao Moutinho curled a sublime free kick beyond Bournemouth goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale for his first goal of the season.
Portuguese midfielder Moutinho created the second with a quick free kick to release Adama Traore, whose low cross was stroked home by Raul Jimenez after half an hour for his 14th goal of the season in all competitions.
Bournemouth's hopes of a comeback suffered a blow after Simon Francis, who was shown a yellow card for a foul on Diogo Jota, brought down on the Spanish striker again to receive his marching orders with eight minutes still to go before the break.
Norwich pile pressure on Silva
Todd Cantwell and Dennis Srbeny scored a brace of rare away goals to give struggling Norwich a 2-0 win at Everton, a result which ended a run of seven games without a win and saw them climb off the bottom of the Premier League table.
Boasting one of the poorest defences in the Premier League and an attack that hadn't managed an away goal since Teemo Pukki's strike in a 4-1 loss to Liverpool in their season opener on August 9, Norwich looked to contain an Everton side that had won three of their last five games in all competitions.
After a goalless first half, Everton had a number of chances early in the second but it was Norwich who took the lead in the 55th minute, Pukki teeing up the onrushing Cantwell to slot home confidently.
Emboldened by the goal, the visitors enjoyed a brief period of dominance but soon found themselves under the cosh again as Everton poured forward.
Substitute Seamus Coleman slotted in on the right for Everton and sent a string of crosses and passes into the box as Gylfi Sigurdsson, Cenk Tosun and Alex Iwobi all went close without scoring.
Srbeny replaced Pukki and scored almost immediately, his stoppage-time goal securing Norwich's first away win of the season to put them in 18th place on 10 points, while Everton slid to 15th place on 14 points.
Watford's struggles go on
Bottom club Watford's miserable season continued with a 3-0 defeat to a clinical Burnley at Vicarage Road in the Premier League on Saturday.
Watford have now gone 11 league home games without a win while the victory ended a run of eight away games without a victory for Sean Dyche's Burnley.
Burnley, who move up to sixth place above Arsenal on goal difference, struggled to create opportunities in the first half but defended well against Watford's pressure.
The Hornets' Spanish winger Gerard Deulofeu broke free after a slip-up by James Tarkowski but Burnley's England international goalkeeper Nick Pope did well to save with his feet.
The visitors took the lead through Kiwi international Chris Wood, who hooked home in the 53rd minute after a Tarkowski header from a corner was deflected towards him -- the goal was Wood's sixth in six games.
Ashley Barnes made it 2-0 from the spot in the 83rd minute, converting after a VAR review ruled Jose Holebas had fouled Barnes in the box.
Defender Tarkowski then wrapped up the win, beating Ben Foster at the second attempt after being left unmarked from a free-kick.
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