Ruud van Nistelrooy loved a dream begin to his reign as Leicester supervisor after a 3-1 win over West Ham, whose boss Julen Lopetugui is beneath rising strain.

Van Nistelrooy has changed Steve Cooper on the King Energy Stadium and noticed Jamie Vardy open the scoring after simply 98 seconds.

Bilal El Khannouss and Patson Daka added objectives after the break to make sure the Dutchman began with three factors in type.

His activity is to maintain the Foxes within the Premier League this season and after ending a five-game winless run they moved as much as fifteenth, 4 factors away from the relegation zone.

West Ham’s hierarchy could have seen what affect a managerial change can have because the jury stays out on Lopetegui, with away followers making their emotions clear by chanting “You’re getting sacked within the morning”.

Niclas Fullkrug scored a comfort purpose on the loss of life but it surely counted for nothing and forthcoming video games in opposition to Wolves, Bournemouth, Brighton and Southampton might decide the Spaniard’s future.

When Van Nistelrooy went to mattress final night time, even he wouldn’t have dreamt of his aspect beginning in addition to they did as they went forward with lower than two minutes on the clock.

One of many Dutchman’s first conversations following his appointment was to take Vardy to activity for breaking his report for scoring in probably the most consecutive Premier League video games 9 years in the past.

And the veteran striker rolled again to the years as, dwelling on the shoulder of the West Ham defence, he raced clear from El Khannouss’ through-ball and slotted into the nook.

The linesman’s flag instantly went up however a prolonged VAR assessment dominated Vardy had timed his run completely and the purpose stood.

Vardy might have added a second from the same transfer however this time Lukasz Fabianski denied him.

The Dutchman rapidly realized concerning the frailties of his aspect as West Ham created a raft of probabilities in quest of an equaliser.

Jarrod Bowen pressured Mads Hermansen right into a stretching save when he minimize in from the precise earlier than Ings’ header crashed into the put up and Max Kilman slipped on the essential level from the rebound.

Bowen, a continuing menace, despatched a ball throughout face of purpose which evaded everybody earlier than the England worldwide was denied by a reflex save from the busy Hermansen.

The Danish goalkeeper wanted to be alert to tip over Mohammed Kudus’ deflected effort early within the second half earlier than he was saved by the referee’s whistle after after his tried punch went into his personal purpose, Tomas Soucek the person penalised.

Leicester remained a menace on the counter-attack and that’s how they doubled their lead simply after the hour.

Kasey McAteer was set clear down the left and his ball inside was excellent for El Khannouss to search out the underside nook from 15 yards.

It was virtually three as Fabianski produced an acrobatic save from Wilfred Ndidi’s header earlier than Leicester wanted a heroic piece of defending to maintain their 2-0 lead intact.

Crysencio Summerville bundled the ball goalwards and it was heading over the road till Conor Coady adjusted his toes and poked it clear.

The Foxes, who additionally had a purpose from substitute Bobby De Cordova-Reid chalked off by VAR, wrapped issues up within the ninetieth minute when Daka broke clear and emphatically transformed into the roof of the web.

West Ham did get on the scoresheet when Fullkrug headed a nook residence, however the recreation was already performed.