2023/24 Championship Round 1: Iheanacho, Ndidi Begins Imminent EPL Return Battle With Nervy Victory Over Coventry

Nigeria worldwide duo of Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndid featured within the 2023/24 Championship spherical 1 sport for Leicester Metropolis yesterday, selecting up a nervy 2-1 victory towards Coventry because the race for EPL return begins.

With Leicester relegated after 9 years of Premier League (PL) membership, and promotion playoff losers Coventry failing to finish greater than twenty years of top-flight absence through penalties, this was as a lot of a ‘heartbreak derby’ as an all-Midlands conflict.

Ndidi began the membership’s first sport again within the English second-tier after 9 years and was changed with Dennis Praet within the 62nd minute, whereas Iheanacho got here on to interchange Foxes’ favourite Jamie Vardy with quarter-hour left.

The Foxes misplaced James Maddison to Tottenham, Harvey Barnes to Newcastle and Youri Tielemans over the summer time to Aston Villa however PL veterans in Jamie Vardy and Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor who each regarded harmful within the opening exchanges of the sport are set to stay with the group and lead them again to EPL.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor’s late objective after an earlier objective to spark a comeback was sufficient for the hosts to see out the sport 2-1 and get Enzo Maresca’s having been appointed shortly after Man Metropolis’s treble win Leicester profession off to the proper begin.

Leicester Metropolis occupy sixth place within the league desk and can face Burton Albion within the EFL Cup of their subsequent match on Wednesday.

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