Leicester City staged a dramatic second-half comeback against Birmingham City this afternoon, with goals from Jamie Vardy, Andy King and David Nugent handing their side a 3-2 victory.

Leicester City got off to a flyer and it took a strong piece of goalkeeping from Darren Randolph to halt a one-on-one from Jamie Vardy.

Yet it was Birmingham who took the lead with their first real opportunity of the game when Shane Ferguson's pinpoint cross was turned in by Green, giving him his first ever goal in league football having previously scored 99 in non-league fixtures.

The next real chance wouldn't come until the 30th-minute mark, when Leicester's Danny Drinkwater found space on the left side of the Birmingham box, but the ex-Manchester United midfielder smashed his effort over.

Leicester were in with another chance soon after when Vardy beat Hayden Mullins, but Randolph got down to make a fine low save to keep out the striker's stinging effort.

Leicester continued where they had left off with Vardy and substitute Anthony Knockaert both going close to bringing the scores level. Following their efforts, it then took a sublime save by Randolph to keep out a low shot from David Nugent.

Birmingham nearly made Leicester pay when Neal Eardley twice went close to doubling the lead. Wade Elliott then picked out the rising Tom Adeyemi, but his powerful header was saved by Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel

Leicester pulled level in the 78th minute when Vardy found space on the edge of the area, his strike beating Randolph in the Birmingham goal.

Birmingham nearly cancelled out the equaliser minutes later when Elliott saw his powerful effort from distance flash just wide.

It was Leicester who took the advantage of a hectic last 10 minutes of play as Andy King put his side in front with a fabulous strike.

Birmingham confounded themselves to further misery when searching for an equaliser as they gave away a penalty in the dying embers of the game, with David Nugent stepping up and sending Randolph the wrong way.

Things ended in an even stranger manner for the Blues when Chris Burke was able to peg one back after the restart, but it was far too late in proceedings to even entertain the idea of a Birmingham comeback.