Everton, Leicester, Leeds fight to remain in Premier League
One way or another, the Premier League will lose two teams with rich histories when the fight for survival reaches its conclusion on Sunday.
Leicester was the architect of arguably the most unlikely title triumph – winning the Premier League as a 5000-1 underdog in 2016 – but has to hope Everton drops points at home against Bournemouth to stand any chance of climbing out of the relegation zone. The Merseyside club sits one place above the relegation zone with 33 points – two points ahead of both Leicester and Leeds.
Its slump has come despite majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri spending around US$780-million in a bid to transform the fortunes of a club that was one of the most successful in English soccer in the 1980s when it won the league title twice, the FA Cup and European Cup Winners’ Cup. It also won the FA Cup as recently as 2021, but a lack of major spending this season has left it at the lower end of the table. Brendan Rodgers was replaced as manager by Dean Smith in April. He has only overseen one win in seven games, but three more draws have kept his team in with a chance of survival.
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