‘Ugly’ Leicester admission offers Leeds United further hope in Championship promotion battle
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The manager of Leicester City, Enzo Maresca, has acknowledged that his team is “tired” of competing with Leeds United for promotion.
Leeds preserved their chances of earning automatic promotion to the Premier League on Tuesday night by defeating Stoke City 1-0. To secure the three points at Elland Road, Daniel James scored the game’s lone goal in the first half.
With a 3-1 victory over Bristol City at home, Ipswich Town is in second place, two points ahead of United in the table. Jamie Vardy scored the game’s lone goal to help Leicester defeat Sunderland 1-0 on Tuesday as well.
Leeds had won 3-1 at Elland Road, one of Leicester’s last three league games before to the trip to the Stadium of Light. During that run, the Championship leaders were overtaken by Leeds, Ipswich, Southampton, and other teams ahead of a hectic final stretch of games.
Leicester’s Tuesday victory over Sunderland was described by Maresca as a “ugly” one. It is possible that Leeds can still hope to return to the Premier League automatically if the manager of the Foxes acknowledges that his players are suffering from exhaustion.
“On occasion, we look for explanations by conducting analyses. Maresca told Leicestershire Live, “But the main one is that some players are tired because the season is coming to an end.”
“We have many players that in the last two or three years, because of injuries or different reasons, they didn’t play a lot. But now it’s a matter of recovering the energy and winning games.
“We dropped a lot as a team. We were defending too low. But the reason why was because we were tired, especially in the middle, with Kiernan [Dewsbury-Hall], Harry [Winks], and Yunus [Akgun]. Then we changed with Wilf [Ndidi]. The reason why was just because we were tired.”