Premier League champions, Leicester City, got back to winning ways with a 3-1 victory against Crystal Palace at the King Power Stadium on Saturday.
Nigeria striker, Ahmed Musa and Shinji Okazaki put them in control as the hosts made light work of Jamie Vardy starting on the bench.
Christian Fuchs then celebrated his new contract with a stunning goal before Yohan Cabaye pulled a goal back late on.
Leicester recovered from a slow start after Christian Benteke hit the bar for Palace. The striker also had a header cleared off the line and was denied by Kasper Schmeichel.
Vardy was benched as he battled a groin injury and came on as a second-half substitute, the first time the striker had not started a Premier League game when available since March 2015.
The England forward had not scored in his previous nine games for club and country and Claudio Ranieri opted to take him out of the firing line.
Islam Slimani and Okazaki both failed to make an impact and it was up to Musa to open the scoring three minutes before the break.
The Foxes’ pressure had been growing, although Musa had been virtually anonymous before getting his first goal for the club since a £16million summer move from CSKA Moscow.
Ineffective on the right, he moved inside to link up with Slimani and, with Steve Mandanda unsighted by his backpedalling defence, cracked a low drive in from 18 yards.
The Foxes had dragged themselves ahead and Slimani almost doubled their lead two minutes after half-time when his header rippled the side netting.
Palace’s response was muted, with Benteke increasingly starved of service, and Cabaye fired well over – but Leicester had the measure of the visitors and they doubled their lead after 63 minutes.
Okazaki had not scored in the Premier League since March but justified his selection when he rifled in from 12 yards after Damien Delaney cut out Drinkwater’s cross.
Schmeichel saved Wilfred Zaha’s drive but Palace had lost their poise from their opening spell as Leicester threatened to swarm all over them.
Yet the Foxes lived dangerously as Palace almost pulled a goal back on 73 minutes when Schmeichel saved Cabaye’s close-range effort and then, from the resulting corner, Danny Simpson cleared Benteke’s header off the line.
But Leicester made the game safe with 10 minutes left when Fuchs scored a brilliant first goal for the club.
There seemed little danger when Benteke cleared a corner to the Austrian but he rifled an unstoppable angled half-volley into the corner from 25 yards.
Benteke was then denied by Schmeichel after being put clear but Cabaye did make it 3-1 with five minutes left when he steered in Zaha’s cross.
Riyad Mahrez also had a chance to put the gloss on the victory but his injury-time volley was saved by Mandanda.
