Leicester City  in history of the English second tier to win their first six away league 

Leicester City became the first side in the history of the English second tier to win their first six away league games of a season as they came from behind to beat Swansea City.

Thanks to a volley from Matt Grimes, Swansea seized the lead in the first half and seemed like they may surprise the Championship leaders.

However, Jannik Vestergaard’s header for the team’s first goal leveled the score for Leicester, which was well deserved.

Before halftime, Liam Cullen’s powerful drive hit the crossbar, giving Swansea another chance to lead.

After the break, though, Leicester’s combination of skill and athleticism continued to cause issues, and young Abdul Fatawu found time and space to score his first goal for the Foxes.

Jamal Lowe came close to tying the score for Swansea, but replacement Kelechi Iheancacho broke free and poked the ball home to extinguish the team’s chances of a comeback.

Leicester has won seven straight Championship games and 11 of their last 12 league games after being relegated.

They extend their advantage at the top of the table to five points, after second-placed Ipswich’s game at Rotherham was postponed on Friday, and they are the 11 clear of third-placed Leeds.

Swansea drop from mid-table to 17th having seen their four-game winning streak come to an end, though they are only four points outside the top six.

Michael Duff had suggested before the game that Leicester will win the Championship this season, the Swansea head coach arguing Enzo Maresca’s side are stronger than the Burnley team who were runaway winners of the division last year.

Yet Swansea started like a team growing in confidence and went in front when Jamie Paterson’s corner was half-cleared and Grimes made a sweet connection with the dropping ball 20 yards from goal, his shot finding the bottom corner with the aid of a deflection.

This was the first time Leicester had trailed in the league since they were beaten by Hull in early September, but there was no panic among Maresca’s players.

Wilfred Ndidi’s cross-shot rolled wide, then he crossed for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to head straight into the arms of Swansea goalkeeper Carl Rushworth.

Swansea almost doubled their advantage on the counter, Jerry Yates shooting narrowly over from 45 yards after goalkeeper Mads Hermansen had come out of his box to deny Paterson.

Following that, Ndidi’s header struck Jamal Lowe and Vestergaard deflected the ball into the net to tie the score for Leicester from a short corner.

It was evident that Leicester deserved to equalize, but Swansea was unlucky when Cullen’s driving half-volley was blocked by Hermansen.

Following the interval, Leicester were once again posing threats to Rushworth. Jamie Vardy headed too near to the goal before Dewsbury-Hall created space on the left and pulled the ball back for Fatawu, who had time to touch the ball and then shoot high into the net.

Penalty requests for handball were denied, but Swansea was not out of it. Paterson’s shot was blocked, and then Harry Winks sent the ball to Lowe, whose 20-yard attempt was pawed to safety by

Swansea head coach Michael Duff:

“I think we fell the wrong side of big moments in the game. We concede right on half-time, basically our lad’s kicked it against their lad – there was a lot of luck involved in that goal. We’ve hit the crossbar and the goalkeeper’s made an unbelievable save from Jamal at 2-1.

“But the general performance I was pleased with. I thought the structure of the team looked good, the energy looked good and some of the quality was good.

“Ultimately, the supporters aren’t stupid and they clapped them off the pitch having got beat. The lads gave me everything today. I think that performance probably 90% of the time beats most teams in this league.

“The last two defeats, against Bristol City and Cardiff, we didn’t look like anything. I thought we looked a decent team today against a team that just had maybe a little bit more than us and fell the right side of key moments.”

Leicester manager Enzo Maresca:

We are thrilled that the team kept playing the same way despite trailing 1-0. Don’t panic.

This is the most significant item to us. In the first part, we were in charge. Even though we gave up on a few transitions, we still felt in command.

“We were deserving of a 1-1 result. We carried on playing the same way in the second half.

“I can tell that the players inside the pitch don’t care that we were behind 1-0—we just need to keep going, keep going, keep going. They can tell that if things keep on that way, something will happen.