That’s it, it’s over. I’ll leave you with Pete Lansley’s report from a noisy Villa Park. Thanks for your company and emails - goodnight!

Post-match interviews

Ezri Konsa “I didn’t want to claim the first goal – I felt sorry for Emi! It was a tough game, we know how good Leicester are, but we kept our shape and it was hard for them to break them down. In the second half we were very compact. We’ve got a new set-piece coach, Austin; he’s brilliant and I’ve got to shout him out for my goals.”

Jacob Ramsey “I haven’t seen the disallowed goal back. At the time I thought it was a bit harsh to disallow it, but it is what it is. The new manager has given us a boost. Training has been intense, the standard’s gone up, and we’ve won three games out of four so it’s looking good.”

That’s three wins out of four for Gerrard, who has lifted Villa from 16th to 10th in the table. Next up: Liverpool away.

Peep peep! Villa move above Leicester after a rousing comeback. Ezri Konsa scored both goals, but the story of the game might be Steven Gerrard’s half-time teamtalk. Villa were level but had been outplayed by an impressive Leicester. In the second half, they overwhelmed Leicester with an intense, purposeful performance that was very much in Gerrard’s image.

90+2 min The corner is curled towards Schmeichel, who is beaten in the air emphatically by Mings. Schmeichel stays up, and then goes down under challenge from Mings and Young moments later. There was a slight push in the back from Young, a risky thing to do, but it wasn’t enough for a penalty.

90+2 min Perez’s header deflects behind for a corner, and Kasper Schmeichel is coming up...

90+1 min Four minutes of added time.

90 min Maddison is booked for a cynical trip on Chukwuemeka.

88 min Lots of Leicester pressure now, with a couple of corners in quick succession. The second, taken by Maddison, comes to nothing when Michael Oliver penalises one of the Leicester players for a foul off the ball.

87 min Thomas’ lobbed cross is headed behind by Mings in the six-yard box, with Vardy waiting behind him to equalise.

86 min Another change for Leicester - Dewsbury-Hall off, Kelechi Iheanacho on.

84 min Maddison’s corner is only half cleared and then put back in the area by Thomas. A loose clearance goes straight to Dewsbury-Hill, who slices over from the edge of the area.

83 min Axel Tuanzebe comes on for Villa in place of Jacob Ramsey. That probably means a switch to a back five.

80 min Cash drives wide from the right side of the area. Not a great effort, though in his defence he didn’t have much support.

78 min Changes galore - Leicester bring on Ayoze Perez for Daka, Villa introduce Morgan Sanson and Carney Chukwuemeka for Buendia and Douglas Luiz.

77 min Ashley Young goes head to head with Dewsbury-Hall. If he’s accusing Dewsbury-Hill of diving then he’s got some front.

Douglas Luiz did actually stand on Dewsbury-Hill’s foot, and I think last season that would have been a penalty. This season, rightly I’d say, the contact needs to be a bit firmer for a foul to be given.

75 min Leicester fire the corner to Dewsbury-Hall on the edge of the area. He goes over after a challenge from Douglas Luiz, but play continues and Villa break. I think it was a dive.

75 min: Great save by Martinez! Castagne’s cross takes a deflection and kicks up at Barnes, who improvises superbly to loop a header towards goal. Martinez springs spectacularly to his right to tip it over the bar. That’s a marvellous piece of goalkeeping.

72 min “You said, ‘I knew I should have read the laws of the game instead of getting drunk last night,’” says Ian Copestake. “This is a lyric from an Arctic Monkeys song, yes?”

Arf, very good. It’s from their concept album, Stockley Park.

71 min: Ramsey misses a great chance! Villa almost seal it on the break. McGinn plays another superb through ball, this time to Ramsey, who spoons it over the bar from 15 yards.

71 min Villa are playing mainly on the break now, which is understandable but risky against a team who are as good in possession as Leicester.

67 min: Good save from Schmeichel! Villa are opening Leicester up at will. Watkins cuts inside from the left and plays a good square pass to McGinn. He waits for Watkins to make an angled run off the ball, then puts him through on goal with a smart pass. Watkins takes the shot on the run and Schmeichel, perfectly positioned, saves with his legs. In all but his finishing, Watkins has been quite outstanding today.

65 min Jamie Vardy replaces the disappointing Ademola Lookman. Not sure what that means tactically, probably Daka moving to the right.

64 min: So close from Maddison! For the first time in the half, Leicester are enjoying some extended possession. Maddison shifts the ball away from McGinn in the D and cracks a lovely left-footed shot that flashes just wide. Martinez wasn’t saving that.

61 min Young’s cross eventually comes to Cash, whose shot is blocked desperately by somebody in the six-yard box. Villa have been sensational since half-time, playing with much greater purpose and intensity.

59 min “I distinctly remember Derby being denied a win, and Malcolm Christie a hat trick, against Man Utd in 2002 due to one hand on the ball counting as ‘under control’,” says Tom Hopkins. “I think there are two lessons to take from this:

• Sometimes the rules are poor, not VAR.
• It’s important not to hang on to these small injustices with so much else going on in the world.”

I’ve probably misremembered this, as it’s not a season I dwell on, but I thought the whole point with Christie’s goal was that at the time you needed to have two hands on the ball for it to be a foul, and the debate/row was about whether Barthez had one or two hands on it.

58 min Watkins is penalised for a foul on the last man Evans. He plays on and scores, just in case VAR decides to intervene, but there’s no such luck. “You’re not fit to referee,” chant the Villa fans. For what it’s worth I thought was a foul.

55 min Nakamba is booked for a foul on Maddison.

McGinn curls the ensuing corner beyond the far post, where Konsa gets above Soyuncu and plants a downward header that beats Schmeichel at the near post. Schmeichel tried to save with his feet but could only shin it into the net. It’s Konsa’s second of the game - the first was given to him in the end - and yet another that Leicester have conceded from a set piece.

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53 min: Great block by Thomas! It’s all Villa at the moment. Watkins plays a one-two with Ramsey, surges into the area and hits a low shot that is crucially blocked by Thomas. In hindsight Watkins should have played in Cash to his right. Not that it matters now...

51 min “Hello Rob,” says Stephen Carr. “We can argue the whys, wherefors and “do you mind if we don’ts” about that Villa non goal ad infinitum but what’s pretty clear is that in awarding the goal, Michael Oliver did not make a clear and obvious error.”

You say that, but the wording of the law is ambiguous. Does the exception refer to both preceding clauses or just the second one? If it’s the latter, it was a clear and obvious error. But I’m honestly not sure, and the more I gawp at it the more confused I get.

50 min Young shoots well wide from the left of the area. It’s been a lively start to the second half from Villa.

49 min Buendia flips the ball out to Cash, whose cross-shot flies through the six-yard box and out for a goalkick. Buendia almost reached it after a late run into the area, but Evans got between him and the ball.

48 min Cash clips a flat cross towards Ramsey, whose flying volley hits Evans on the back. I think it was going over anyway.

46 min Mings’ clearance hits Lookman and rebounds to Daka, who plays a clever reverse pass back towards Lookman in the area. His first touch is slightly heavy and that allows Nakamba to intercept.

46 min Peep peep! Villa begin the second half.

“Ref here,” says Paul Pooley. “By rule, one hand is control”.

I knew I should have read the laws of the game instead of getting drunk last night. It looks like this is the key bit, and it’s as clear as mud.

A goalkeeper is considered to be in control of the ball with the hand(s) when:

• the ball is between the hands or between the hand and any surface (e.g. ground, own body) or by touching it with any part of the hands or arms, except if the ball rebounds from the goalkeeper or the goalkeeper has made a save
  

The ball had rebounded from the keeper, so that means he isn’t necessarily in control, doesn’t it? Or does it?

Half-time entertainment

This is terrific.

The issue is whether Schmeichel had the ball under control. He was on the floor, feeling for it after originally palming it away with his other hand. You can argue it either way; I’m not sure it was a clear and obvious error by Michael Oliver.

The half-time whistle leads to a chorus of boos from the home fans. Villa were outplayed for much of the half but would be going in 2-1 up but for an intervention from Stockley Park’s finest.

It’s been disallowed for a foul by Ramsey. Schmeichel had one hand on the ball, his left, and Ramsey kicked under his hand to send the ball into the net. Anyway, the goal is disallowed.

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VAR check! Mike Oliver is looking at the monitor for a possible foul by Ramsey on Schmeichel. I don’t think it was.

Douglas Luiz, on the left, swept a hopeful cross beyond the far post. Cash headed it back into the six-yard box, where Schmeichel dived to his right in an attempt to palm the ball away. All he could do was drop it at the feet of Ramsey, who hammered it gleefully into the net.

Jacob Ramsey gives Villa the lead!

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42 min McGinn’s deep cross is headed back across goal by Watkins and booted clear by Evans.

40 min: Chance for Leicester! Evans’ lofted free-kick is headed across goal by Daka towards Maddison. He lets it run across his body, losing Cash in the process, but then hits a left-footed shot too close to Martinez. That was a fairly good chance.

39 min Thomas shoots over from the edge of the area after being teed up by Barnes. A half chance at best.

38 min Barnes wins the ball off Cash on the left side of the area and lifts a cross that is headed away by Konsa. Cash lunged in at Barnes, who stayed on his feet rather than look for a penalty. There has been quite a lot of desperate Villa defending in this half, most of it effective.

37 min Thomas flashes a superb ball across the six-yard box, with no Leicester players in there. Leicester have been really good going forward and probably deserve to be in front.