Leicester 6-2 QPR: James Justin hits brace and Jamie Vardy scores penalty in thrilling FA Cup third round tie played in very foggy conditions.

• James Justin scored twice as Leicester won 6-2 against QPR in the FA Cup 
• Jamie Vardy also netted from the penalty spot in a hugely eventful game 
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In a season in which Leicester has been hammered and bruised, the FA Cup provides a glimmer of hope for rebirth. After weeks of angst, they needed some free-scoring therapy. Five defeats in a row, with two goals and 14 surrendered, threatened to turn Ruud van Nistelrooy’s first Premier League job into misery. He saw a blueprint for how his Foxes might look and feel here, staring through the fog, his yells turning to icicles before they crossed the touchline: high turnovers, sharp on the counter, threatening down the wing, and clinical, as if he were on his 384-goal joyride on grass.

This was Leicester’s first six-goal haul since 2013. The King Power Stadium resembled an operating theatre as they ripped apart an in-form QPR with gleeful abandon, albeit this performance was far from flawless, especially for an error-prone Harry Winks. Van Nistelrooy was quite happy. ‘A performance in which you can score six goals is always fantastic,’ he remarked. “I appreciated the third goal the most. It was a terrific move with lots of movement and coordination that we sought to improve. It’s very satisfying when things work out like that.