Ndidi and Iheanacho gain Premier League promotion with Leicester City

By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde

Nigeria duo Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho have gained promotion to top-flight English Premier League for the 2024/2025 season.

Their club, Leicester City has secured one of the two automatic tickets from the second-tier English Championship after their closest rival, Leeds United suffered a 4-0 loss to Queens Park Rangers (QPR) on Friday.

Goals from Ilias Chair, Lucas Andersen, Lyndon Dykes, and Sam Field lifted QPR to a comfortable victory.

Leeds occupy the second position with 90 points after 45 games win a game remaining.

Leicester City have two more games to play with 94 points at the top of the log.

This means an automatic ticket for the Foxes.

They will face Preston and Blackburn Rovers in their last two games of the season.

Iheanacho has scored five goals with an assist in the Championship so far.

Ndidi on his path contributed four goals with five assists for the Foxes in the Championship this season.

Oluwaseun Oyediji

Oluwaseun Babatunde Oyediji is a multi-media sports journalist with over 10 years experience in Information Communication Technology (ICT), women's football, and beach soccer reportage.The prolific writer is the Media Assistant to Nigeria Beach Soccer League and Africa Beach Soccer Union as well as contributor on Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) website.He has covered multiple national and international football tournaments including Championship of African Nations (CHAN 2020), CAF Women's Champions League (2023), and Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2023).Since 2021, Oyediji has covered the NWFL Premiership especially the season ending Super Six Playoffs.A member of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Ogun state chapter is also the image maker of the Remo Sports Development Council under the leadership of Chief Falilat Ogunkoya and David Osuolale.

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