Abdul Fatawu's stunning second half goal deserved a 1-0 championship victory in Charlton.
The addicks suffered a first loss in the valley since 3 December, but will feel awarded that they have taken none of their 18 attempts – including seven on goal – because she again underlines that the step of League One has not buried them for a little bit.
Leicester went to Southeast London with their last way victory on Boxing Day and was grateful to goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk because they made sure they were still on the break.
The Polish stop produced an excellent Save with one hand to give a swing of 30-year strike by Charlton midfielder Conor Coventry.
The Foxes struggled to break down their resilient and organized hosts, because they missed the creative influence of Bilal El Khannouss, who was omitted from the MatchDay team while the transfer speculation was held around his future, in the opening for 45 minutes.
The addicks repeatedly won possession in half of the visitors during the first period, but failed to get the most out of their counterattacks, despite the fact that many red shirts flowed into the penalty area of ​​their opponent.
Two corners of Coventry caused problems for Leicester at the start of the second half. First, Lloyd Jones' goalbound -head was pronounced to a corner of Hamza Choudhury and then Stolarczyk cleverly had to go down his back post to deny Kayne Ramsay.
Moments later, City was in charge of a moment of class by Fatawu. The right wing player cut on his left foot and hit a nice finish in the left corner of the net past helpless house goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski in the 48th minute.
It was the first goal that the addicks had admitted in more than nine and a half hours of football, including all their play-off tires from League One.
Charlton's threat largely came from set -pieces – because they won 13 corners – with another Jones header who cut out Coventry from five meters, but led the ball to the wrong side of the post.
Caleb Okoli produced a crucial block on the 81st -minute efforts of Greg Docherty, after the shot in the area was quoted by replacement Harvey Knibbs.
It was a first loss for the home team, because they won promotion at Wembley, but there were many positives in the way they performed by the 2016 Premier League champions.
There was another late chance for the addicks when the game tapped in six added minutes, but Tyreece Campbell could not keep his header away from eight meters.
Charlton replacement Joe Rankin-Costello had his shot accused when Leicester hit the victory in the first meeting between the two clubs since March 2014.
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