Football: Man City up to second in Premier League as Leicester make Ranieri suffer
LONDON (AFP) – Manchester City beat West Ham 2-1 in swirling snow on Sunday (Nov 28) to return to second in the Premier League and Watford manager Claudio Ranieri endured a miserable return to Leicester. Free-scoring Liverpool laid down the gauntlet by hammering Southampton 4-0 the previous day to move to within one point of... » read more
Football: Leicester sign Vestergaard from Southampton
LONDON (REUTERS) – Leicester City completed the signing of Denmark international defender Jannik Vestergaard from Premier League rivals Southampton on Friday (Aug 13). The fee was not disclosed but British media put a figure of £15 million (S$28 million) on the deal for the 29-year-old who joined Southampton from Borussia Moenchengladbach three years ago. Vestergaard... » read more
Football: Leicester win Community Shield as Grealish debuts for Man City
LONDON (REUTERS) – Kelechi Iheanacho scored a late penalty against his old club as FA Cup winners Leicester City beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 in the Community Shield curtain-raiser to the season on Saturday (Aug 7). The victory was the second in a row at London’s Wembley Stadium for the Foxes, who beat... » read more
Football: Chelsea secure Champions League spot despite Villa defeat
BIRMINGHAM (AFP) – Chelsea qualified for next season’s Champions League on Sunday (May 23) despite a 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa as Leicester’s loss against Tottenham saved the Blues’ top four place in a thrilling end to the Premier League season. Thomas Tuchel’s side were 14 minutes away from missing out on a top-four finish... » read more
Football: Leicester beat Chelsea to claim first FA Cup
LONDON (REUTERS) – Leicester won the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s 137-year history on Saturday (May 15) as Youri Tielemans’s sensational strike beat Chelsea 1-0 in front of 22,000 fans at Wembley. The largest crowd for a sports event in England since the coronavirus pandemic hit 14 months ago were treated... » read more
Football: Man City crowned Premier League champions as Leicester win at Man United
MANCHESTER (AFP, REUTERS) – Caglar Soyuncu’s second-half goal saw Leicester beat Manchester United 2-1 on Tuesday (May 11) in a result that confirmed Manchester City as Premier League champions and strengthened the Foxes’ bid for a place in the Champions League. Luke Thomas put Leicester ahead in the 10th minute at Old Trafford but the... » read more
Football: Red-hot Iheanacho seals Leicester fightback to sink Palace
LEICESTER (AFP) – Leicester strengthened their grip on third place in the Premier League as Kelechi Iheanacho’s superb strike capped a spirited fightback in Monday’s (April 26) 2-1 win against Crystal Palace. Brendan Rogers’ side trailed to Wilfried Zaha’s first half goal at the King Power Stadium. But Timothy Castagne equalised soon after the interval... » read more
Football: Rodgers disappointed by Leicester trio after Covid-19 breach
LONDON (AFP) – Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers admitted he was disappointed by the behaviour of Ayoze Perez, James Maddison and Hamza Choudhury after they were dropped for Sunday’s (April 11) 3-2 defeat against West Ham after breaching coronavirus protocols. Perez, Maddison and Choudhury were all missing from the Leicester line-up at the London Stadium. Rodgers... » read more
Football: Man City cruise past Leicester to close in on Premier League title
LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) – Manchester City moved ever closer to a third Premier League title in four seasons as a rare goal from Benjamin Mendy and Gabriel Jesus’ strike earned a 2-0 win at third-placed Leicester on Saturday (April 3). Pep Guardiola’s men now hold a commanding 17-point lead at the top of the table,... » read more
Football: Leicester held by Burnley, Villa shocked by Sheffield United
LONDON (AFP) – Leicester had captain Kasper Schmeichel to thank just for a point in a 1-1 draw at Burnley on Wednesday (March 3) as the Foxes’ bid for a top-four finish in the Premier League stumbled again at Turf Moor. Aston Villa also missed the chance to move to within two points of the... » read more
Football: Rodgers urges Leicester to fight through injury woes
LONDON (AFP) – Brendan Rodgers has challenged Leicester to defy the odds as a mounting injury crisis threatens to wreck their bid to finish in the Premier League’s top four. Rodgers’ side lost star midfielder Harvey Barnes to a left knee injury during Sunday’s damaging 3-1 home defeat against Arsenal. Barnes, who is going under... » read more
Football: Maddison pulls strings as Leicester ease to win at Fulham
LONDON (REUTERS) – Leicester City midfielder James Maddison created both goals in a 2-0 win at relegation-threatened Fulham on Wednesday (Feb 3) as Brendan Rodgers’ side moved provisionally up to third in the Premier League. Fulham, 18th, are now winless in the league in 11 games since a 2-1 victory at Leicester in November and... » read more
Football: Leicester fight back to draw at Palace, climb to second
LONDON (REUTERS) – Leicester City’s Harvey Barnes grabbed a late equaliser to earn his team a 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on Monday (Dec 28) that lifted them up to second in the Premier League table. Leicester could have taken the lead in the 18th minute from the penalty spot after Luke Thomas was fouled... » read more
Football: Vardy rocks Arsenal as Leicester go fourth
LONDON (AFP) – Jamie Vardy came off the bench to seal Leicester’s late 1-0 win as spluttering Arsenal crashed to a third defeat in their last four Premier League games on Sunday (Oct 25). Vardy was only fit enough for the bench after a calf injury, but Brendan Rodgers sent the Leicester striker on with... » read more