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Bournemouth went ahead on 35 minutes courtesy of Josh Kings penalty after the Norway international had been fouled in the box.

However, with the game entering the seventh minute of injury time, Mahrez stepped up to curl a 30-yard free kick past Asmir Begovic as the home side extended their winless run to five Premier League matches.

 

As a result, both teams stay in midtable security, with the eighth-placed Foxes still four points ahead of their opponents in 11th.

Bournemouth had the better of the first half and after Junior Stanislas had wasted a glorious opportunity to give his side the lead, with the winger side-footing wide of a gaping goal, the visitors did make a deserved breakthrough 10 minutes before the break.

 

Callum Wilson strode forward into the box, before the ball broke kindly to Charlie Daniels, who then centred for King. However, despite there appearing to be little danger, Marc Albrighton - having been switched to right wing back in place of the injured Daniel Amartey - upended the striker.

Referee Lee Probert had no hesitation in pointing to the spot, with King keeping his cool to send Kasper Schmeichel the wrong way, nonchalantly rolling the ball in the bottom right-hand corner of the net.

 

However, Leicester - who themselves had spurned a golden chance to take the lead when Mahrez shot straight at Begovic when one-on-one with the Cherries goalkeeper just before the quarter-hour mark - improved drastically after the interval.

Ben Chilwells goalbound effort was deflected over the bar on the hour-mark, before Harry Maguire saw two well-struck drives blocked near the goal line, the second by team-mate Kelechi Iheanacho, who inadvertently deflected the defenders shot inches wide of the near post.

 

The hosts must have thought their last chance of salvaging a point had gone when Dan Gosling somehow managed to get his body in the way of Mahrezs close-range effort with just two minutes to go.

But that was reckoning without the Algeria international, who managed to bend his last-gasp free kick around Bournemouths wall and out of reach of a diving Begovic for his ninth Premier League goal of the season.