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James Maddison insists Leicester City 'dominated' Leeds United at Elland Road

James Maddison believes Leicester City "dominated" during their 1-1 draw against Leeds United at Elland Road.

Youri Tielemans and Jamie Vardy had goals disallowed for offside, while James Maddison and Harvey Barnes squandered big chances.

Nevertheless, Leeds pressed for a winner with both Marc Roca and Brenden Aaronson forcing saves from Daniel Iversen late in the game. Patrick Bamford wasted a golden chance to secure all three points when he fluffed his lines at the back post.

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Leeds remain two places and two points above the bottom three, while Leicester climbed out of the relegation zone to move one-point clear. But Maddison, and Jamie Vardy, who scored the equalising goal, were convinced that the Foxes deserved more.

"Probably not [a fair result]," Maddison told BT Sport. "Well if you had two Leeds players in here they'd probably say the same.

"I felt like we dominated. We started the game really well, they scored probably when we were on top. They had the chance from the set play, Bamford probably should score at the back post.

"We dominated the second half, especially when we made the changes with Daka and Vardy coming on. We created a lot of chances and probably could win the game.

"I just said to the gaffer, it's important in games like that, when your pushing and your really trying to get that winner. It's important you don't lose, and concede a chance on the counter-attack."

Vardy added: "We saw that we were on top and when Patson [Daka] has come on as well, it put an extra bit of pace up there. So it's all about getting the players in the pockets where we needed them to, but making sure me and Patson are stretching them as far as possible to create that space.

"Like I said, we've done it right at the end with Maddison getting turned, and on another day if he wasn't so tired, he'd have probably got onto it himself. But luckily I was there to put it in."

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