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EPL: Fulham dent Leicester City’s survival hopes after 5-3 thrashing

Fulham football club dented Leicester City’s chances of surviving relegation after hammering the foxes by 5-3 in a thrilling English Premier League encounter on Monday afternoon.

Willian and Tom Cairney scored a brace each for the cottagers in their 5-3 pummeling of the foxes.

But the Foxes, who won the Premier League in stunning fashion in 2016 and lifted the FA Cup two years ago, are staring relegation in the face.

Leicester are outside the relegation zone only on goal difference.

Harvey Barnes scored two goals and Maddison scored one for Leicester City to make the score line respectable at 5-3.

Leicester City gained promotion to the EPL in the season 2013-14 season and have since remained in top flight football.

10 years after the foxes could be heading back to the second tier of English football.

May 8, 2023
EPL: Leicester City fires coach Brendan Rodgers

Leicester City have fired Brendan Rodgers after four years of managing the English Premier League clubside.

Leicester City have been in poor form all through the season and are fighting relegation at the moment.

Rodgers was relieved of his duties a day after their 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace.

The result saw the Foxes slip into the bottom three with 10 games remaining.

On Sunday, Leicester announced that a “mutual agreement” had been reached with the 50-year-old, who had been in charge since February 2019.

Rodgers leaves with coaches Chris Davies and Glen Driscoll.

This means goalkeeping coach Mike Stowell and first-team coach Adam Sadler will take charge of their fixture against Aston Villa at King Power Stadium on Tuesday.

Rodgers led the club to consecutive fifth-placed finishes in 2020 and 2021 and won the FA Cup for the first time in their history two years ago.

April 2, 2023
EPL: Chelsea defeat Leicester 3-1 in a thrilling encounter

Chelsea Football club today defeated Leicester City by 3-1 to register three wins in a row in all competitions.

The Blues opened the scoring inside 11th minute when Ben Chillwell lashed on to a cross from Kalidou Koulibaly for the visitor’s opener.

The West Londoners thought they doubled their lead when Ruben Loftus-Cheek set Joao Felix from the right and the Atletico Madrid loanee beat Danny Ward with a fine finish.

But the goal was immediately chalked off as Felix was caught offside after a VAR check.

Leicester regrouped and equalised with a stunning long-range shot by Patson Daka in the 39th minute.

But Chelsea regained the lead at the death when Enzo Fernandez flicked the ball over to Kai Havertz inside the area and the versatile forward tapped it over Ward in the sixth minute of stoppage time.

However, Graham Potter’s side got the decisive goal when Havertz delivered a cross from the right and found Mudryk at the far post.

The winger headed it to the middle and Mateo Kovacic delivered a thunderous volley to seal the three points for the visitors.

Leicester then lost Wout Faes who was sent off with a second yellow card after two-legged tackle on Carney Chukwuemeka.

March 11, 2023
Super Eagles Striker, Iheanacho nominated for player of the month

Super Eagles forward, Kelechi Iheanacho has been nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month for February.

The Leicester City forward scored a couple of golas and provided assist in the month of February for his club side.

Iheanacho scored once and provided two assists in the Foxes’ 4-2 away win at Aston Villa.

The 26-year-old then netted once and recorded an assist in Leicester City’s 4-1 home win against Tottenham Hotspur.

The Nigerian has hit the net three times in 18 league appearances for the former Premier League champions this season.

Iheanacho will battle Manchester forward, Marcus Rashford, Fulham goalkeeper, Bernd Leno and Tottenham Hotspur defender for the award.

Aston Villa forward, Ollie Watkins and Fulham winger, Manor Solomon are the other players nominated for the individual prize.

The February player of the month award will be announced anytime from now.

March 2, 2023
EPL: Arsenal, Manchester City win as title race hots up

Arsenal’s title hopes of winning its first English Premier League in many years received a major boost after defeating Leicester football club 1-0 at King Power Stadium.

Gabriel Martinelli’s goal was enough to give the Premier League leaders a hard-fought win in the thrilling encounter.

The Brazilian struck in the first minute of the second half, latching on to a deft pass from Leandro Trossard to roll his shot past Danny Ward.

Trossard had a fine first-half goal disallowed after Arsenal’s Ben White held Ward in the build-up.

Leicester, who remain 14th, were lacklustre although Kelechi Iheanacho had a goal flagged for offside shortly after Trossard’s disallowed effort and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall curled a shot just wide in the second half.

However, the Gunners closest rival Manchester City also defeated its opponent Bournemouth Football Club to reduce the tally on the log to just two points but Arsenal have a match in hand.

Erling Haaland maintained his goal-a-game ratio since his summer arrival by tucking home a close-range second for his 27th top-flight goal of the season to end a relatively lean spell of one in six games.

Phil Foden punished Philip Billing’s wayward pass to add City’s third before half-time, and Bournemouth’s misery was completed after the break when Chris Mepham deflected an Alvarez volley into his own net.

February 25, 2023
EPL: Manchester United defeat Leicester City 3-0 to revive title hopes

Leicester City will rue missed chances earlier in the game with their lack of clinical finishing as they eventually got thumped by Manchester United 3-0 .

Goalie, De Gea made a couple of great saves to keep the Red Devil into the game before England striker, Marcus Rashford lashed on to a pass from Gernacho before slotting the ball into the net for Manchester United first goal.

In the 57th minute, Rashford again beat the offside trap after receiving a pass from Fred to score his second of the game, the goal was initially ruled out for offside but a VAR check ruled in favour of the in-form striker.

In the 60th minute, Bruno Fernandenz sent up Jordan Sancho who wasted no time to tap the ball into the net for The Red Devils third of the night.

Manchester United are presently occupying the third position on the English Premier League standing and are just three points adrift Manchester City on second position.

February 19, 2023
EPL: Super Eagles Midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi injured again

Super Eagles and Napoli Midfieder, Wilfred Ndidi will the spend a couple of weeks on the sidelines again, after injuring himself again.

Ndidi sustained a muscle strain injury in training, according to Leicester City reporter, Owynn Palmer-Atkins.

“Brendan Rodgers tells me that Wilfred Ndidi has suffered a muscle strain in training and will be out for a couple of weeks,” Palmer-Atkins wrote on his Twitter handle.

The midfielder missed Leicester City’s 2-2 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday as a result of the setback.

The Nigeria international has been plagued with injuries in recent times and that has really affected his game time for club and country.

Ndidi has been rated one of the best midfielders in world football.

January 22, 2023
EPL: Manchester City claim top spot after beating Leicester 1-0

Man City have gone top of the English premier league abeit temporarily following their away win over Leicester City at the King Power stadium.

Manchester City would have to wait for the result between Arsenal and Nottingham forest to know if they will be occupying the top spot at the end of the match day 14.

City started the match pressing high and dominated possession throughout the encounter.

De Bruyne scored via a freekick in the 49th minute and it proved to be the only goal of the game. Leicester were not attacking at all but they did it at the end of the second half in order to find an equalizer.

Youri Tielemans was inches away from an immediate equalizer for Leicester when the Belgian’s ferocious drive was tipped onto the crossbar by Ederson.

Kelechi Iheanacho came off the bench and twice went close to a leveller with a snap-shot that whistled just wide and then a close-range effort straight at Ederson.

City almost contrived to gift Leicester a point in stoppage-time when John Stones’ header hit Ruben Dias and flew narrowly wide.

October 29, 2022
EPL: Leicester facing challenge to sack Brendan Rodgers

Leicester City are pondering sacking manager Brendan Rodgers in the coming weeks.

The Foxes are rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table after just taking one point from their first seven matches.

However, The Sun states that the cash-strapped club may find it too expensive to part with the Northern Irish manager.

The source adds that Rodgers earns a salary of £10million-a-year, which makes him one of the highest-paid coaches in the Premier League.

His contract still has three years to run, which means Leicester may have to pay the entire salary if they sack him.

While a gardening leave option is possible, that would still involve paying Rodgers his salary, along with paying another head coach, until the former finds a new job.

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September 20, 2022
EPL: Thomas Frank tipped as Brendan Rodgers’ replacement at Leicester City

Following Leicester City’s poor run of form this season 2022/23, the management of the club has picked Brentford manager, Thomas Frank as Brendan Rodgers’ possible replacement.

Leicester has only picked just one point from the Seven games played so far this season.

Brendan Rodgers’ men were hammered 6-2 by Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday, raising further question marks about Rodgers’ future at the club.

Reports emanating from the camp of Leicester say the club is already shopping for Rodger’s replacement.

However, they are unsure whether the Brentford boss would be open to leaving the club.

Rodgers, who signed a new deal in 2019 which runs until 2025, would be entitled to a £10 million payoff if Leicester decide to sack him.

When asked about his position at Leicester after the loss to Spurs, Rodgers said: ‘I don’t know, to be honest. Whatever their decision is, I’ll always respect it.”

Leicester City are presently occupying the last position on the English Premier League table.

September 18, 2022