Leicester City – the former Premier League Champions sit 23rd in the EFL Championship as a shock relegation looks set for the Foxes.
The Foxes’ were once up there winning the Premier League title back in 2016 being one of the greatest underdog stories out there as the Foxes secured Champions League football to the King Power Stadium.
Leicester were grouped with Club Brugge, FC Porto and FC Copenhagen which saw Leicester progress with four wins, a goalless draw in Denmark and a 5-0 battering at Porto. They were drawn with Sevilla which they lost the first leg but came back to win in the home leg to continue.
Their Champions League spell came to an end at the hands of Atletico Madrid, drawing 1-1 at home but losing out 1-0 in the Spanish capital courtesy of a Griezmann first half goal.
They would go on and return to the European stage in 2021 being grouped in the Europa League with Spartak Moscow, Leiga Warsaw and Napoli which saw the Foxes demoted to the Conference League where they’d meet Randers winning 7-2 on aggregate. They then went on to face Rennes which they edged out 3-2 winners on aggregate which landed them a tie with PSV Eindhoven which again saw them progress.
It all came to an end in the following tie as AS Roma scraped past Leicester to knock out the Premier League side.
It all came to a crashing end in 2023 as the Foxes saw their nine year spell in Europe’s top league come to an end as Leicester were relegated to the Championship following a rather disappointing season in the Premier League.
This year has been very poor by the Foxes’ as they sit second bottom, just ahead of Sheffield Wednesday who sit on -3 points following a season full of point deductions and off the pitch chaos but for Leicester, a team who you’d expect to be in with a chance of the title look like they’re set for League One football.
Leicester who sit 23rd have only won 11 times this season, most recently a 1-0 defeat at Portsmouth yesterday as relegation fears stepped up a level as they sit eight points from safety with a defeat to Hull on Tuesday meaning they will be playing in England’s third division next season.
The defeat at Portsmouth didn’t go down well at all with the fans which saw heated conflict between fans at full-time and Oliver Skipp seen shouting abuse towards the fellow supporters as well as supporters at full-time chanting “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” as a shock relegation looks to be on the cards.
It’s safe to say, it’s a sad sight in England as one of the regular Premier League sides are being set for a relegation to League One following many years of success.
