The Premier League Thread

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And there's no way that Sunderland can win two in a row.

It's written in the Lawro stars.
We should be payed millions for this analytical insight.

Also 2-0 Saints because even though Sunderland have just won through an amazing performance, Saints could turn it around.
 
Leicester become the first reigning Champions to get relegated?...odds are shortening by the week.

in another sport, Lancashire became County Champions and were promptly relegated the next so it has happened. Ipswich managed the fall from grace in two.

Knowing Leicester they will produce an outstanding performance against Sevilla (I hope not as I would love Sevilla to reach the final of the CL). Having said that, I feel that Leicester will recover once the romance of the CL is terminated. However, let's keep our fingers crossed.
 
Its easy to say now, but Claudio should have let Vardy, Mahrez & Drinkwater leave and brought in some some new hungary talent. He's going to lose his job because of them.

Maybe Mahrez and Vardy managing to get huge contracts has left the dressing room divided there. And how much is either worth now? About 50% of their value of last season.
 
This will be Leicester's third 3-0 defeat in four PL matches (together with a 1-0 defeat to Burnley) - if no more goals of course. They're also on course to have scored just one goal in their seven PL matches since Xmas (albeit, fortunately for them, it was in a 1-0 win).
 
Leicester are poor....after all we beat them.....and that's only partly a joke.o_O I like Ranieri and last season was amazing, but isn't it a case of returning to the mean. Went from relegation candidates to Champions, and back again. The club rightly fear relegation with all its financial penalties, but be interesting to ask their fans in the future whether it was worth it (not now it is too painful). They have won the title and did have a wonderful season.....when it all settles down (if it happens), it may have been worth it to the fans.
 
Leicester are poor....after all we beat them.....and that's only partly a joke.o_O I like Ranieri and last season was amazing, but isn't it a case of returning to the mean. Went from relegation candidates to Champions, and back again. The club rightly fear relegation with all its financial penalties, but be interesting to ask their fans in the future whether it was worth it (not now it is too painful). They have won the title and did have a wonderful season.....when it all settles down (if it happens), it may have been worth it to the fans.
And they sold their best player. N'golo Kante may not have scored the goals that Albert Steptoe did, or created them like Mahrez, but he was the equivalent of Morgan Schneiderlin, Victor Wanyama, and Harrison Reed on a good day in one person. Watching the Chelsea game on Saturday one of the commentators said that the Chelsea central midfield consisted of Kante on the left, Matic in the middle, and Kante on the right. He was everywhere, and Leicester are missing him about as much as we are missing Morgan and Victor.
 
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And they sold their best player. N'golo Kante may not have scored the goals that Albert Steptoe did, or created them like Mahrez, but he was the equivalent of Morgan Schneiderlin, Victor Wanyama, and Harrison Reed on a good day in one person. Watching the Chelsea game on Saturday one of the commentators said that the Chelsea central midfield consisted of Kante on the left, Matic in the middle, and Kante on the right. He was everywhere, and Leicester are missing him about as much as we are missing Morgan and Victor.

A lot more, even. Though he probably does do the job of both that pair on his own.