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Albion let a lead slip late on for the second game in a row to extend their winless streak in all competitions to seven matches.

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Nacer Chadli celebrates as he opens the scoring for Albion (AMA)

Nacer Chadli, who was up for sale in the summer, reminded Tony Pulis of his qualities with a pin-point free-kick into the top corner on his first Premier League start of the season.

It was a big goal for Chadli, who's future has been in question ever since he refused to go on Pulis's pre-season trip to Austria, and his effort shortly after the hour mark looked to have given his head coach a much-needed win.

But ten minutes before the end, Riyad Mahrez latched onto an Islam Slimani knock down to ensure the points were shared.

Even though the Baggies have still never lost at the King Power Stadium, they will be ruing another opportunity to get all three points two weeks after Watford's late equaliser at The Hawthorns robbed them of victory at home.

Boaz Myhill made his first Premier League appearance since April 2016 after Ben Foster was ruled out with a worrying knee injury.

Chadli, meanwhile, started his first league game of the season wide left after receiving an injection in his back last week.

Hal Robson-Kanu and James Morrison sat out with muscle strains and there was no place in the squad for £15m man Oliver Burke.

Jamie Vardy was passed fit for Leicester and the man who started the day with five league goals already this season tested Ahmed Hegazi's pace a couple of times early on.

The Egyptian was shown a worryingly early yellow card after raising an arm to stop Vardy escaping again moments after a late lunge had given away a free-kick but he kept his head for the rest of the game and came through unscathed.

And it was Albion who fashioned the first real chance thanks to a clever Kieran Gibbs dink over the Leicester defence for Chadli.

The Belgian didn't catch his volley correctly and it skewed wide, but that was a rare moment of goal mouth action in a drab first half between two teams better without the ball.

Albion were happy to put men behind the ball and invite Leicester ­- who can be so devastating on the counter-attack - to break them down instead, but the former Champions lacked incision and looked bereft of ideas in possession.

It meant the Baggies were most vulnerable when they sent men forward but it took Leicester more than half an hour to fashion their own opening when a long throw bounced out to £12m summer signing Vicente Iborra, who stung Myhill's palms with a fierce drive from distance.

Iborra played at Sevilla with Grzegorz Krychowiak, but minutes later his former team-mate blasted over a shot from a similar position after Craig Dawson found him on the edge of the box.

Albion's best chance of the half came when Jay Rodriguez, who was playing out right, drifted inside and was slipped through by Gareth Barry but a hulking Harry Maguire was on hand to expertly strong-arm him off the ball and a good chance went begging.

Vardy, who had been quiet since his earlier burst, had a header at the back post before half-time but he exploded into the second half.

Chasing down a dreadful Hegazi back pass in his usual lung-busting fashion, he touched it around the keeper before the pair collided on the edge of the box.

Myhill received a yellow card, because the ball was going out of play, and Mike Dean awarded a free-kick instead of a penalty, which was for Albion, probably the best possible outcome.

The Welsh keeper was dazed, encouraging Pulis to send 21-year-old Alex Palmer out for a warm up, but Myhill managed to continue.

He should have been picking the ball out of his net moments later when Mahrez blasted over a golden chance from 10 yards out.

Vardy's neat backheel put Marc Albrighton in behind the Albion defence for the first time and he pulled it back to the Algerian who somehow fired over with the goal gaping.

That chance sparked the home crowd into life after a dull first half. The noise levels rose and the football became more frenetic.

But just as the locals were starting to sense a goal, Chadli silenced them with a free-kick of clinical precision.

Krychowiak won it, beating Kelechi Iheanacho to the ball, but it was a still a good 25 yards out and in a central position.

Chadli flummoxed Kasper Schmeichel, who thought he was going in the opposite corner, and left him stranded with a beautifully arced shot into the top right corner.

A desperate Craig Shakespeare sent on Islam Slimani and Ben Chilwell soon after and it was the striker who made a telling impact ten minutes from time, heading the ball back to his fellow Algerian Mahrez.

This time, the winger made no mistake, manouvering the ball away from Gareth Barry before firing it through Dawson's legs.

The Foxes went searching for the winner after that, and tested Myhill again, while the Baggies looked threatening on the break.

But neither team created a gilt-edged chance in the final few minutes and two teams in need of a win will go away equally as frustrated as each other after a match both could have won on another day.

Teams

Albion (4-5-1): Myhill, Dawson, Hegazi, Evans (c), Gibbs, Rodriguez (McClean 84), Krychowiak, Barry, Livermore, Chadli (McAuley 84), Rondon. Unused subs: Palmer, Nyom, Yacob, Phillips, Brunt.

Leicester (4-4-2): Schmeichel, Simpson (Chilwell 74), Morgan (c), Maguire, Fuchs, Albrighton, Iborra (King 90+2), Ndidi, Mahrez, Iheanacho (Slimani 74), Vardy. Unused subs: Hamer, Amartey, Gray, Okazaki.

Referee: Mike Dean