Monday 19 April: The Sun Online
Leicester 4 Watford 1
MATTY Fryatt will make a perfectly-timed return to provide extra 'bite' for Leicester's promotion charge.
Fellow striker Steve Howard faces a three-game ban after Saturday's red card against Watford - but Fryatt is waiting in the wings after nine weeks out.
Fryatt, whose jaw was broken in two places by Doncaster's Brian Stock, said: "It wasn't so much the pain, or the extent of the injury. My first thought was 'I've had most of my teeth knocked out!'
"I was scrabbling around on the ground frantically looking for them. Happily dental damage was kept to a minimum. My jaw has been wired, of course, and a liquid diet means I've lost 19lb in weight. But I'm OK and back in training."
Relegation strugglers Watford made the brighter start but still found themselves 2-0 down before Howard stupidly got himself sent off in first-half added time.
Waghorn had joined Fryatt on the 12-goal mark from the spot after ref Nigel Miller wrongly penalised Jay DeMerit for a foul on Richie Wellens - then Paul Gallagher superbly volleyed in.
So quite why Howard chose an ugly lunge from behind at Ross Jenkins with no chance of retrieving the ball was anybody's guess. It was the striker's seventh sending off and the most senseless.
Howard, 33, said: "No excuses, I've let the rest of the lads down and I have apologised."
Howard's exit was Watford's chance. Wrong. Within six minutes of the second half they allowed Jay Spearing a ludicrous amount of time to volley home.
Vaughan then muscled his way through to make it 4-0 after 67 minutes. Martin Taylor's 77th-minute header for the visitors was no consolation.
Watford boss Malky Mackay admitted: "The players were below par and I want them to make up for it at QPR on Tuesday."
SUN STAR MAN JAY SPEARING (Leicester). Great prospect.
Saturday 17 April: Daily Mail Online
Leicester 4 Watford 1: Lively Foxes shrug off Steve Howard's red card
LEICESTER made light of the seventh sending-off of Steve Howard's career to stay on course for the play-offs.
They spent the entire second half with 10 men after Howard was shown a straight red card for a two-footed lunge from behind on Ross Jenkins in added time before the interval.
His consequent three-match ban, pending appeal, means he will miss the first leg of the play-offs should Nigel Pearson's side stay in the top six.
But any hopes struggling Watford harboured of retrieving the 2-0 deficit were quickly extinguished after Jay Spearing and substitute James Vaughan doubled Leicester's lead by the 67th minute.
Leicester were making hard work of keeping relegation-threatened Watford in check until they were awarded a disputed 36th-minute penalty by referee Nigel Miller.
Danny Graham had gone close to putting the visitors ahead as he curled a 21st-minute effort narrowly over the bar. And it took a fine blocking save by goalkeeper Chris Weale to deny Henri Lansbury soon after.
But when Richie Wellens went down under Jay DeMerit's challenge, Watford looked hard done by to concede a penalty which Martyn Waghorn converted for his 12th goal of the season.
To add to Watford's woe they were punished for failing to clear their lines in the 41st minute as Paul Gallagher volleyed into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.
Spearing's 51st-minute volley made it 3-0 and as Watford wilted under the strain, Vaughan held off Adrian Mariappa's challenge to make it 4-0 with his first goal for the club in the 67th minute.
It was little consolation for the visitors when substitute Martin Taylor cut the deficit in the 76th minute with a far-post header from Lansbury's corner.
