Leicester, who beat fourth-tier strugglers Gillingham by a single Iheanacho goal last time out, faced a stern test from a hard-working, high-energy Walsall side eager to shut out their top-flight opposition.
Browsing: Patson Daka
The former Manchester City man was the Foxes’ highest goalscorer last season with 19 goals and nine assists.
The Foxes overcame a resilient Brentford 2-1 in their last top-flight encounter, while Mikel Arteta’s side brushed aside Aston Villa by three goals to one.
Daka becomes the first Leicester player to score four goals in a single match since Derek Hines in November 1958.
All three of the Foxes’ trips to Wembley Stadium in 2021 have ended in 1-0 wins, with Iheanacho the scorer of a solitary goal in the FA Cup Semi-Final in April, before his spot-kick this weekend secured Leicester’s second Community Shield success.
Zambia, which set up a training camp in Accra, Ghana after a proposed tour of Spain was botched, had spent the last four days in the Ghanaian capital trying to perfect strategies for the must-win game
Both Zambia and Senegal qualified for the U-20 World Cup in South Korea, as well as Guinea and South Africa, who faced each other in the third place playoff