PROMOTION favourites Leicester brushed Cheltenham aside at

Whaddon Road.

Lloyd Dyer netted twice, with Matt Oakley and Matt Fryatt

also on target.

Dyer put Leicester in front in the third minute, smashing

home from close range after Shane Higgs had saved from Matt

Fryatt.

Cheltenham came close to an equaliser three minutes later

when Craig Armstrong stabbed goalwards after a corner, but

Kerrea Gilbert cleared off the line.

Higgs had to make good saves from Matt Oakley and Fryatt,

while Fryatt went through, and he rounded Higgs but, from a

narrow angle, could not find the empty net.

Leicester went close again when Andy King’s curler clipped

the bar, then Cheltenham suffered a blow when Paul Connor

limped off with a knee injury.

Higgs was in action again after 38 minutes, coming out

quickly to deny Dyer a second, then at the other end, David

Martin smothered a Myrie-Williams opening.

Vincent then had a good shot saved by Martin in injury time

after neat build-up work by Jerry Gill, Dave Bird and

Myrie-Williams.

Leicester grabbed their second when Fryatt went through and,

after Armstrong’s last-ditch tackle denied him, he retrieved

the ball and found Oakley, who had time and space to pick his

spot from 25 yards.

Steve Howard had a goal disallowed after 72 minutes, but

four minutes later Fryatt hammered in the third from a

free-kick from 20 yards.

After 79 minutes, Dyer was put through down the left and

outpaced Townsend before drilling a shot past Higgs.

Cheltenham (4-4-2): Higgs; Gill J, Townsend, Armstrong

(Gallinagh 81), Wright; Sinclair (Gill B 85), Russell, Bird,

Myrie-Williams; Connor (Lindegaard 33), Vincent. Subs: Caines,

Brown.

Leicester (4-4-2): Martin; Gilbert, Morrison, Hobbs, Tunchev

(Powell 81); Dickov (Gradel 60), King, Oakley, Dyer; Howard,

Fryatt (Campbell 80). Subs: Henderson, Wesolowski.