Leicester thrash sorry Watford in Hodgson's final home game

Roy Hodgson's last home game as Watford boss ended in a heavy defeat as Leicester ran out 5-1 winners at Vicarage Road on Sunday.

With incoming Watford head coach Rob Edwards in attendance, the already relegated Hornets made the perfect start as Joao Pedro (6) capitalised on some poor Leicester defending to open the scoring.

However, that wasn't the end of the defensive calamities as James Maddison (18) and Jamie Vardy (22) were the benefactors of some forgettable moments at the heart of the Watford defence as Leicester turned the game on its head with two goals in four minutes.

Leicester put the game to bed minutes into the second half through Harvey Barnes (46) before Vardy (70) and then Barnes (86) grabbed their second goals of the game to put the finishing touch on a superb afternoon for Brendan Rodgers' side, who move into the top half into 10th.

Sky Sports pundit Tim Sherwood described Watford's performance as "disgraceful".

"Roy Hodgson does not deserve this performance," said Sherwood. "They have thrown the towel in."

Defeat keeps Watford in 19th and they will look to avoid finishing bottom when they travel to Chelsea on the final day of the season.

With their relegation from the Premier League already confirmed, Watford started brightly, and they edged ahead inside six minutes.

Leicester made a mess of dealing with Ken Sema's corner as the ball bounced off Youri Tielemans before Pedro's low effort went in off Timothy Castagne.

The hosts were piling the pressure on Leicester and twice went close to doubling their advantage, including Adam Masina hitting the crossbar, but defensive errors allowed the visitors back into the game.

Craig Cathcart collided with Masina as he attempted to deal with a long ball over the