2015-16 Barclays Premier League Leicester Vs Manchester United - Jamie Vardy scores in 11th successive game to set Premier League record

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy set a Premier League record when he scored for the 11th successive game with a goal after 24 minutes against Manchester United on Saturday Nov 28,2015 and the match ended in a 1-1 draw

 

Jamie Vardy surpasses Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy who scored in 10 consecutive Premier League games for United in 2003

Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger levelled the scores with a header from inside the box just before half-time

Jamie Vardy needs to score in his next two games to equal the all-time record of consecutive goals scored at the top level of English football, set by Jimmy Dunne back in 1931-32. Playing for Sheffield United, Dunne scored 12 goals in succession.

Stan Mortensen hit 15 goals in consecutive games for Blackpool in the 1950-51 season, but he missed matches during that run because of injury, recovering to continue scoring when he returned to the side.

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has been officially presented with his Guinness World Records certificate on Monday Dec 07,2015 in honour of his 11 game record goal-scoring run in the Barclays Premier League

TOP SCORERS IN CONSECUTIVE PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES 

Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) - 10 games - 2015

Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) - 10 games - 2003

Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) - 8 games - 2002

Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) - 8 games - 2014

Mark Stein (Chelsea), Ian Wright, Emmanuel Adebayor and Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Alan Shearer (Newcastle) - all 7 games 

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