It has been a midweek of Premier League certainties being secured at both top and bottom. Place Leicester in the certainty category. Defeat at West Ham extended their doomed, zombified lurch towards relegation to 11 league defeats in 12, 12 of 16 in all since Ruud van Nistelrooy replaced Steve Cooper in November.
If Cooper was the wrong man at the wrong club then so, most probably, is the Dutchman. Perhaps nobody had a chance with the squad Leicester assembled to attempt survival. Their performance at the London Stadium was submissive. “That’s the situation we’re in,” said Van Nistelrooy. “The confidence in the run of form is low and then you end up in a mindset of trying not to lose.”
Written by John Brewin at the London Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/27/tomas-soucek-strikes-to-continue-west-hams-revival-and-leicesters-woe under the title “Soucek extends West Ham’s revival and Van Nistelrooy’s Leicester woe”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
