04.10.2014 18:37 h

Wallace stunner lifts Burnley at Leicester

Ross Wallace's stoppage time equaliser lifted Burnley off the bottom of the English Premier League table with a 2-2 draw at Leicester on Saturday.

Substitute Wallace curled in a 20-yard free kick with a minute to go as the Clarets ended a goal drought going back to the first game of the season against Chelsea.

In a clash of newly-promoted sides, Jeff Schlupp and Riyad Mahrez had twice put the hosts ahead, only for the visitors to hit back with Michael Kightly scoring the Clarets' second goal of the season when he cancelled out Schlupp's opener in the first half.

Leicester move up to ninth with Burnley, still searching for their first win of the season, provisionally ahead of tailenders Queen's Park Rangers, who visit West Ham on Sunday.

The Foxes made two changes from their 2-0 defeat to Crystal Palace as David Nugent and Esteban Cambiasso were dropped, with Schlupp and Algerian international midfielder Mahrez starting.

And the partnership proved fruitful, particularly in the first half where they piled the pressure on Burnley to ensure Leicester led at half-time for the first time this season.

Schlupp had the first shot at goal in the fourth minute but the winger's effort off a Jamie Vardy headed pass went wide, with a Mahrez shot on 17 minutes saved.

Schlupp put the hosts ahead after 33 minutes when the 21-year-old German-born Ghanaian picked up a Mahrez cross to blast a right-footer into the centre of the goal.

But Burnley were back on level terms seven minutes later when winger Kightly finished off a close-range goal off a Lukas Jutkiewicz header.

The visitors' celebrations at scoring after 47 barren days were short-lived, however, as just a minute later Mahrez headed the hosts ahead again.

Leicester pinned back their rivals in the second half although new Burnley recruit Jutkiewicz proved enterprising despite missing four opportunities to steal a point from their trip.

But in the fifth minute of injury time, Burnley levelled when Jutkiewicz was brought down by Matty James and Wallace, who had come on after 79 minutes in place of Kightly, hit the top corner from a free kick, to silence the home crowd, although Leicester remain unbeaten at their King Power Stadium.