Leicester City come from behind to sink Everton - and perhaps Marco Silva?

Marco Silva is clinging onto his job at Everton by his fingernails after a dramatic and controversial defeat at the King Power Stadium.

Kelechi Iheanacho’s winner in added time was awarded after review by the video assistant referee to leave Silva facing the end of his reign as manager.

Iheanacho appeared offside when he was sent clear, bypassing Yerry Mina to curl a shot into the corner, and Silva could only watch in disbelief as two minutes elapsed before the goal was given.

The last time Silva lost at the King Power Stadium, he was sacked as Watford manager in January 2018, and this result could have severe repercussions for the Portuguese.

Leicester secured a sixth Premier League win in a row after the crucial goal from Iheanacho, a substitute, and the Brendan Rodgers revolution continues to gather momentum.

Everton had threatened to sentence Rodgers to his first home defeat since April after Richarlison’s first-half header, but Jamie Vardy scored for the sixth game running before Iheanacho’s late strike piled on the agony for Silva.

After a huge £100 million spend in the summer it was Everton who had ambitions of hanging on the coat-tails of Liverpool and Manchester City.

Yet this has been a season of underachievement, with Silva facing the prospect of becoming the fourth managerial casualty in three-and-a-half years.

A trip to resurgent Leicester had the whiff of another uncomfortable afternoon, but Everton defended resiliently in the first-half, restricting Leicester to few chances with what was effectively five at the back.

There was a sense of inevitability about their opening goal in the 23rd minute.

Days after signing a new contract with the club, Richarlison provided the crucial touch, moving in front of Ricardo Pereira to head the ball powerfully past Kasper Schmeichel from Djibril Sidibe’s fine cross.

Leicester were struggling to break down the deep block and their frustration only increased in the 33rd minute, when Ben Chilwell was brought down in the penalty area by Mason Holgate.

Referee Graham Scott pointed to the spot but after a predictably long delay, was overruled by the VAR review. There appeared minimal contact on Chilwell but the England defender was furious, confronting Holgate after the decision was relayed back to Scott.

Leicester needed a response. Ricardo’s low shot was pushed away by Jordan Pickford nine minutes into the second half in the first real test for the Everton goalkeeper.

Rodgers introduced Kelechi Iheanacho after the hour in a bid to give his team more attacking impetus, and it was a substitution which paid off almost instantly.

Iheanacho had already poked an effort at goal before picking up the ball outside the area, slicing his shot across goal and into Vardy’s path. The 32 year old was never going to miss.

Leicester were now galvanised, with James Maddison volleying Vardy’s cross straight at Pickford from six yards. Vardy headed just over from Ricardo’s cross.

But their pressure finally paid off, deep into added time, with Iheanacho’s brilliantly taken goal. Sacked by VAR? Silva’s future is hanging by a thread.

6:38PM

Here is John Percy's match report

Over to you JP.

6:27PM

Full time: Leicester 2 Everton 1

Oooh, Marco Silva. Wonder if that is the lot?

Let the bitter recriminations begin!

6:26PM

90+ mins: Leicester 2 Everton 1 (Iheanacho (90+4)

Cruel blow for Marco Silva. What a sport. He looks, as Sid and Doris Bonkers know so well, ashen-faced.

6:24PM

GOAL! Leicester! But of course VAR ruins the moment

As the clock ticks down, Iheanacho receives the ball on the break. It's a great through ball and he latches onto it..... He tears towards the goal, he advances on the keeper. He slots it in the corner. Goal! But is it offside? Eventually, after a nervous and also dispiriting couple of minutes, the verdict comes in. Goal stands!

6:20PM

90 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1             

Both sides going for it, but neither is creating all that much. We are into injury time and there is a delay for an injury. Sidibe and Iheanacho clashed, the former looks to be in some pain. For a minute it looks like he will have to come off but he limps back to life.

6:15PM

86 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1           

Ricardo powers in from the right and crosses to win a corner. Cleared easily enough and Pickford kicks early to release Moise Kean. He's tackled.

6:14PM

85 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1           

Kean breaks but his shot is a doozy, straight at the keeper.

6:14PM

83 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1         

Everton looking pretty ragged here, although I think they might have taken a point.

6:13PM

80 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1         

Marc Albrighton replaces Harvey Barnes.

Kean and Söyüncü get into a little bit of  agg.

6:10PM

78 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1       

Iwobi and Calvert-Lewin off for Moises Kean and Morgan Schneiderlin.

6:10PM

77 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1       

Tielemans looking very dangerous, drives forward. One-two with Iheanacho (amazing touch from the Nigerian) and Everton are really under the pump here.

6:04PM

75 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1     

Speaking of awful, how about this marking from the Everton defence? Vardy, alone, in the area and he's got the run on a brace of centre halves. Meets it with the head and that shaves a coat of paint off the crossbar.

I think it was Tielemans who delivered the ball in, but the picture on this telly is TERRIBLE.

6:03PM

74 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1     

Foxes come again. Vardy the provider now, strong run down the left and a good cross. Finds Iheanacho  in teh centre but his touch is awful.

6:02PM

73 mins: Leicester 1 Everton 1   

Excellent play from Barnes, who carries the ball with pace and heart, before laying it off to Vardy on the right. Jamie drills the ball across, Barnes has carried on with his run and he meets it first time, but cannot direct it away from the grateful keeper.

5:58PM

GOAL! Leicester 1 Everton 1 (Vardy 67)

Vardy has been quiet but it only takes someone like that a moment... Leicester break, looking much more themselves. Ndidi brings it, feeds Iheanacho down the right, he uses his pace to go outside and delivers a lethal low cross. That man Vardy is there at the back stick and he's never missing that from three yards.

Marco Silva's strategy had been working, but now it's a question of a) how he can change it and b) what bottle do the players have?

Talking of manager's changing things, kudos to B-Rodge - it was the sub who delivered the assist.

5:53PM

62 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1   

Perez, who hasn't done a lot after the tenth minute, comes off for Iheanacho.

5:53PM

60 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1 

Richarlison crosses for Iwobi. Leicester haven't turned up at all for this second half!

5:52PM

58 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1 

A deep freekick from the left by Everton. Holgate gathers it and beats Ndidi all ends up... he cracks a shot at goal but it is blocked by Söyüncü. Oooh, Holgate could and probably should have scored that.

5:49PM

55 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Some absurd playacting from Yerry Mina as he has the most pathetic bit of handbags with Barnes and, then when Barnes lightly pushes him in the midriff, he hurls himself to the floor. You hate to see it, etc. He made a berk of himself in the World Cup for Colombia as well, did he not? You silly Yerry.

5:44PM

53 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Good passage of play from Everton. A sweeping break, Sidibe gallops down the right into acres of space and swings over the cross on the run. No recipient.

5:40PM

51 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Everton get another corner, though, and Calvert-Lewin rises above all rivals to plant a header not far wide.

5:38PM

49 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

At the other end, some good battling work from Richarlison tees up Sigurdsson, who shoots. Behind for a corner. That corner dealt with well.

5:38PM

47 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Here come Leicester. Chilwell and Barnes link up threateningly down the left. They win a corner that Maddison takes but it comes to little.

5:35PM

46 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Right then. Second half. My man Richarlison, who I think is a super young man and a smashing player, is back on and seems fine.

5:28PM

VAR Controversy, Part34654

So that incident. Chilwell is running at high speed, Holgate launches a massive swing of the leg at him. Chilwell either leaps out of the way or falls over deliberately, because he wasn't touched. If not a foul, then is it a dive?

Regardless of whether it WAS a penalty or not, it seemed like it was a reasonable call to GIVE a penalty. I don't think that a "clear and obvious error" was overturned.

5:20PM

Half time: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Everton's packed defences have held firm enough, although Leicester still look threatening.

5:18PM

45 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1 

Half draws to a close with notorious chopper Sigurdsson going into the book, Maddison causing some problems with a freekick, and Leicester having a corner.

Richarlison has been crocked and is limping off as the ref blows the whistle, remains to be seen if he will re-emerge after the interval.

5:17PM

40 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Everton doing okay, still quite fancy Leicester to win this but.

5:12PM

38 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Decent ball from Richarlison but Digne is offside.

5:11PM

36 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Harvey Barnes has recovered well, and is leading a strong break here. Leicester a little ponderous this afternoon, not quite as direct and ruthless. The break slows down with some needless dithering.

5:04PM

Penalty to Leicester! Given...

...but VAR. And overturned.

Mason Holgate aims a big swing of the leg at the travelling Ben Chilwell, who is probably going away from goal down the side of the area. Ref gives a penalty but then VAR seems to show that there is no contact. So it is overturned.

That came a split second after Yerry Mina stopped Jamie Vardy with an almost equally wild tackle.

I feel Everton have been a bit lucky there. I thought at least one of them was a foul!

4:57PM

25 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 1

Superb diagonal run from Barnes, not unlike the Iwobie one at the other end there for the goal as it happens. He releases it at the right time. Perez surges into the area with the ball and is stopped by Sidibe. The home fans reckon he was touched from behind but the ref thinks otherwise.

4:54PM

GOAL! Everton!! Richarlison 23

A free-flowing move sees Iwobi make an exciting run forward, plays it out to the right where the overlapping full back Djibril Sidibédelivers an excellent cross. And there is that man Richarlison to batter in the header! Powerful contact and no chance for the keeper.

Leicester City 0 Everton 1 (Richarlison 23)

4:52PM

22 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0     

Keane plays the ball back in a miscommunication with Pickford, and for one delicious second there is the prospect of the slow-roll own goal... But I think Pickford always had the situation in hand.

4:51PM

20 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0   

Ball into the Everton box, dealt with uncertainly but effectively in the end.

4:48PM

17 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0   

A Vardy burst down the middle is dealt with, Everton tidying that up pretty well.

Leicester strongly fancied to win this I would say on the evidence so far

4:44PM

11 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0 

Oooooh. Close! Pérez has been the brightest so far, and he's run onto a ball in the inside right channel here; Everton's backline gaping like the moths have been at it, and Pereze surges onto the ball and hits it first time, dragging the shot wide.

4:38PM

7 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0 

First moment of note when Sidibé receives it outside the box and has time to have a dibble. Well over.

4:36PM

5 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0

Something of a "too many cooks" for Everton at the back with an absolute raft of defenders all hanging around waiting for someone else to snuff out Pérez.

4:34PM

3 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0

Everton give away a free about 35 yards out, not a good policy with their recent travails against the set piece. But they clear this one, and now a decent break from Calvert-Lewin, who sadly cannot find Richarlison as he comes to join.

4:31PM

1 mins: Leicester 0 Everton 0

Everton are in a vile peach coloured strip that should see them expelled from the League on its own. But it is they who have the ball now. Their backs play it around, but the Leicester press is at them from the first moment. Everton lose the ball.

4:30PM

Not much above freezing

there, and the temperature dropping.

4:28PM

Looks like the

4-1-4-1 for Leicester, with that man Jamie Vardy up top and Ndidi the anchorman.

4:26PM

Players are in the tunnel

Actually, it looks more like a function suite. Weird tunnel. Anyway, here they come.

4:20PM

Resident Everton fan

is less than completely optimistic. "We do not have a good record with a back three."

4:19PM

Marco Silva asked about set-up

"It's just a formation, what will make the difference is our quality on the pitch and our motivation on the pitch."

4:10PM

Brendan Rodgers

"We are playing one game a week, and players are training well and they are fit so, yeah it is a bit easier. These players have been great for me. But we respect every opponent."

Poor Geoff Shreeves muddles up Leicester and Everton.

4:08PM

Kick off is at half past

just in case you were wondering.

3:54PM

Everton formation

Judging from the team sheet, and a word in my shell from our resident Blue, it should be Iwobi on the wing and Calvert-Lewin up front. Looking like a back three.

3:33PM

Teams in actual words

Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu,  Chilwell, Ndidi, Perez, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.  Subs: Justin, Morgan, Albrighton, Ward, Iheanacho, Choudhury,  Praet.

Everton: Pickford, Holgate, Mina, Keane, Sidibe, Davies,  Sigurdsson, Digne, Iwobi, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison. Subs:  Baines, Tosun, Schneiderlin, Bernard, Kean, Gordon, Lossl.

Referee: Graham Scott (Oxfordshire)

3:32PM

Leicester team news

3:31PM

Everton team news

3:26PM

Good afternoon

Everton's Marco Silva is in the hotseat for now. The Goodison Park club's director of football, Marcel Brands, has broken the club’s silence on Marco Silva’s future by insisting the manager has the support to transform his and the team’s fortunes.

Sounds very much like the dreaded v of c to me but there you go. You can read Chris Bascombe's  Everton insist they will stick with Marco Silva for now after ‘years of instability’ and make your own mind up. The immediate task for Mr Silva is to pick 11 players to take on the in-form Leicester City, and we'll see how he goes about that any moment now.

For our columnist Jamie Carragher, himself a childhood Everton fan, it is a question of identity. With things going so well over on the red half of the city, I can only imagine how tough times are for Blues!

Here's Jamie's take:

Punchy stuff, and perhaps tough reading for some.  Everton might be searching for a new manager - but first they must work out what they really are

They travel today to Leicester, who are in a decent run.

Team news coming any second now.