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Chapter 634: Leicester City’s decline

Ye Qi's five-game suspension means that when he returns to the playing field, it will be close to mid-January, probably the third round of the FA Cup.

In addition to daily training during this period, when the team has games, although Ye Qi cannot play, he will go to the stadium to watch the games and cheer for his teammates.

Just after Christmas, in the Premier League match on December 26, Leicester City welcomed the Toffees Everton.

Martinez's Toffees were impressive in the early stages, but their results declined somewhat last season and this season.

This is mainly due to the age of the defense. In the past two seasons, Everton has invested a lot in the midfield and frontcourt. The most famous one is naturally Lukaku.

Of course, Lukaku's current nickname is Little Warcraft, and he has not yet become a member of Lukaku.

But the main players in the midfield and backfield are all over 30 years old, especially the main central defender Jajjelka is 33 years old this year. He is still the Toffees' unbeatable main central defender. He played 37 league games last season!

In the end, with goals from Vardy and captain Morgan, Leicester City beat Everton [-]-[-] at Goodison Park to end their two-game losing streak.

Everton's goal came when Ross Barkley scored after a header from Lukaku.

Less than 72 hours after the game ended, Leicester City once again welcomed Tottenham Hotspur.

Fans who often watch the Premier League know that this period of time is the famous Christmas game of the Premier League. Every team almost has to play three games in seven days, and some even play four games in nine days... ..

The second game against Tottenham in the league this season was played at the King Power Stadium. After 10 and [-] minutes of fierce battle, neither side could break the opponent's goal, and the final score remained at zero to zero.

In this way, the 2015 competitions are all over. After twenty rounds of the league, Leicester City is temporarily ranked No. 42 in the standings with 4 points.

In front are Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur who have scored four points from Leicester City in the last two games!

This season Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool collectively fell apart, so everyone thinks this is the best season for Wenger to lead the team to win the championship.

And now their opponents are most likely the other three teams in the top four. Leicester City was eliminated first.

Because everyone believes that the Blue Fox has no successor, it should not have much impact on the championship. This can be seen from the continuous decline in results during this period.

At the beginning of the season, the Blue Fox had been ranked first for a long time, but halfway through the schedule they were already in fourth place, and it was very likely that they would fall out of the top four.

Therefore, Arsenal's remaining opponents are Tottenham and Manchester City. Tottenham lacks the dominance of the championship, and their lineup is not expected to pose a threat to the Gunners.

After all, the biggest opponent is Manchester City.

But judging from the current situation, Arsenal has the advantage.

Many fans have already shouted the slogan that the championship belongs to Arsenal on New Year's Day!

Everyone was predicting the championship, but when reporters handed the microphone to Leicester City coach Ranieri, the Italian coach said:

"Competing for the championship? That's not something we should consider. My goal has always been clear is to avoid relegation. Now we have 42 points and have successfully avoided relegation ahead of schedule!"

“So our mission for this season has been completed, what’s next? Of course the next step is to choose a summer vacation destination!”

Reporters frequently rolled their eyes, thinking that you are now the fourth-ranked team in the Premier League. Is it appropriate to avoid relegation?According to your situation, the goal of Arsenal, currently ranked first, is to compete for the fourth place?

Don't tell me, at the beginning of the season, Arsenal's goal was to keep the top four!

There has never been an example of relegation with 42 points in the history of the Premier League. We don’t know if there will be in the future.

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The Wolves, who scored 40 points this season, narrowly avoided relegation by one point!

This season happened to be the season in which Ferguson retired gloriously after winning the championship, and it was also the last glory of the Red Devils and Manchester United.

So with 42 points, it is basically unlikely to be relegated.

Everyone thought that Ranieri was dishonest and did not hide or tell the Blue Fox's true goal.

On New Year's Day, the 21st round of the Premier League officially started. In this round, Leicester City's opponent was the not-so-strong Black Cat Sunderland.

Sunderland are currently ranked No. 17 and have just entered the relegation zone.And above them is the mortal enemy Newcastle United, so this season, the two teams are likely to step on each other's corpses to avoid relegation.

It is unclear whether the black cat escaped or the magpie soared into the sky in the end.Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that these mortal enemies will be demoted at the same time.

After all, behind the black cat Sunderland is the canary Norwich City. Their chances of relegation are still relatively high. It depends on whether Newcastle United, Bournemouth and other teams hovering near the relegation zone can be dropped. The chain is gone.

This game is also more troublesome for Leicester City, because not to mention Ye Qi's suspension, Vardy has provoked the front line after Ye Qi's suspension.

But he was too tired and he started almost every game in the recent Christmas game.

If this continues, the team doctor is worried that he will be injured, so Ranieri gave Vardy a rest.

Also resting were Albrighton and Fox on the wing, while Drinkwater was suspended due to accumulated yellow cards.

Therefore, nearly half of Leicester City's main players did not appear on the roster in this game.

In the end, facing Sunderland, who were in urgent need of relegation, the Blue Fox, which lacked most of its core, was somewhat unable to perform even at home.

Mahrez was alone, and Kante almost never stopped in the backcourt.

But in the end the game was lost. Leicester City lost to Black Cat Sunderland [-]-[-] at home.

Sunderland, who had scored three points, celebrated at the King Power Stadium, not that they had any objections to the Blue Foxes.Instead, they had just received news that in another game, Newcastle United and Premier League Hornets Watford tied [-]-[-].

In this way, they surpassed their arch-enemy by one point and temporarily escaped from the relegation zone, while Newcastle United fell into the relegation zone.

Of course, the season is not over yet, and it is difficult to say who of these two teams will successfully avoid relegation in the end.

But for Black Cat fans, at least the new year is off to a good start and worth celebrating!

However, this is not good news for Leicester City, the blue fox playing at home. Because they did not score points in this game, they fell one place again in the standings, reaching fifth place!

It only took Leicester City one month to go from first to fifth in the Premier League.

At this time, everyone believed that Leicester City had basically bid farewell to the competition for the league title.

Ranieri was helpless and spread his hands: "We have never thought about competing for the league championship!"