The striker is close to driving Leicester back to the Champions League and leads Aubameyang in the golden boot standings
It was the kind of prediction you could not help suspecting might come back to haunt Ashley Cole. Assessing Arsenal’s chances of keeping Jamie Vardy quiet with a backline consisting of David Luiz, Shkodran Mustafi and Sead Kolasinac, the former England defender seemed confident enough.
“They’re well equipped to deal with Vardy,” Cole told Sky before the match. “He won’t cause them any trouble.” But on a night when Leicester desperately needed their leading man to write another chapter in his remarkable story, the Premier League’s leading goalscorer was always destined to have the last laugh.
Written by Ed Aarons
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/08/jamie-vardy-leicester-arsenal-premier-league under the title “Jamie Vardy gives Arsenal painful reminder of what they almost had | Ed Aarons”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
