Leicester City made a superb
start to life in the Champions League as a pair of goals from Riyad
Mahrez helped Claudio Ranieri's side to a 3-0 win over Club Brugge on
Wednesday.
The Premier League champions needed
just five minutes to score their first goal in the competition,
Marc Albrighton knocking the ball into an unguarded net thanks to Hans
Vanaken's unfortunate assist.
Mahrez doubled their
lead with a curling free-kick in the 29th minute, and then added a
penalty just after the hour mark to clinch all three points in
Leicester's Group G opener.
The victory
is Leicester's first in Europe since they took on Glenavon in the first
round of the Cup Winners' Cup in the 1961/62 season.
Leicester now boast a two-point advantage at the top of the group
following Porto's 1-1 draw with Copenhagen, with the Portuguese side
their next opponents on September 27.
Ranieri's men may
have suffered a shaky start to the defence of their title - winning
just once in their first four domestic league outings - but they flew
out of the blocks in Belgium.
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