Kelechi Iheanacho has left Norwich City manager Daniel Farke furious after failing to respect the Fair Play rule.
Emiliano Buendia was on ground as the ball was played into touch for the Argentine to receive treatment.
The Canneries were expecting to get the ball back from Iheanacho who received a throwing from his teammate Ricardo Pereira.
Instead, the Nigerian international attacked with the ball towards Norwich's 18-yard area and he was fouled by Christoph Zimmermann before James Maddison deliberately played the ball out of the pitch.
Norwich players surrounded the 23-year-old in anger on the floor as the referee brandished a yellow card to Todd Cantwell who was lucky to escape red.
Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers defended the Super Eagles striker to have "misread the situation", but Farke was not so kind.
"I'm usually quite calm, but in this situation my pulse was at 200 and I was also furious," he said.
"It started with a situation, a tackle against Emi Buendia, I couldn't understand why the free-kick wasn't given. When this happened to Leicester players, he blew his whistle and he was right to do this.
"Leicester played on. Sometimes in the heat of the game, perhaps you don't realise there is someone on the floor.
"We won the ball back and played the ball over the line in order to allow some treatment.
"It's quite common in the whole world that there is fair play and the throw-in goes back to us. I think everybody in the stadium expected this.
"We were not organised. [Iheanacho] was willing to use this situation not to play the ball but surprisingly to try to score a goal.
"Out of this there was a free-kick given in an unbelievably dangerous area and there was a check of a red card of my player. It was strange. I can't explain why it was a free-kick and a yellow card for my winger, because then you are always in danger.
"Thank God the outcome was just a yellow card. We can live with it, it could have been worse, that's for sure."
Iheanacho was then subjected to boos from the traveling fans as Rodgers made a quick first half substitution shortly after Tim Krul's own goal that brought Leicester leveled in the game.
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