Only two years ago Leicester were fighting Chelsea for a place in the Champions League but are now fighting towards the top of the Championship
JOE Edwards is looking forward to facing off again with Leicester City tonight – just years on from high-stake Premier League battles against the Foxes.
While a first-team Chelsea coach under Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel, Edwards was part of teams who twice had to fend off Leicester for a Champions League spot on the final day of the Premier League in the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
The Foxes also beat Chelsea in the 2021 FA Cup Final with Edwards in the losing dugout at Wembley on that occasion. Just two years later Leicester, the Premier League champions of 2016, would be relegated from the top-flight.
Tonight Edwards will be up against the Midlands side in the Championship and is expecting a challenging game at the King Power Stadium with his Millwall side in need of a morale-boosting result.
He told NewsAtDen: eed they’ve got. They are well-coached so credit to the coach for that.
“But what I would say is that they’ve not obviously surprised me in terms of how they’ve dominated the division. I think it was more of a shock that they were even there in the first place.
“My personal experience at Chelsea, where we actually lost an FA Cup final to Leicester in 2021, and where we actually competed with them for a spot in the to“To be honest, the coach [Enzo Maresca] has obviously done a very good job because they do play good football and they can hurt you in different ways. If you sit off them and let them have too much of the ball they can open you up with different passes, but equally if you get caught going too aggressive they can just go in behind with the spp four for a few years.” Thus, it demonstrates the caliber of work and play they were accustomed to over a long period of time.
Thus, it makes sense that a team of that caliber would enter the Championship and keep the number of players they did; it also explains why they have been so dominant and makes for an extremely challenging matchup.
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