Rafael Benítez wrote the script and Brendan Rodgers had no answer to it. This was a textbook away win for Newcastle and it means, barring a freakish series of results, that they will finish above the Premier League’s relegation places for a second season in a row.
Benítez aims higher than that and wants pledges of investment from the club’s owner, Mike Ashley, before committing his future to Newcastle. But here, at least, Benítez and his team celebrated a deserved win, sealed by Ayoze Pérez’s first-half header.
Written by Paul Doyle at the King Power Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/12/leicester-newcastle-premier-league-match-report under the title “Newcastle all but safe thanks to Ayoze Pérez’s header at Leicester”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
