{"id":78453,"date":"2024-04-02T20:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/leicester-beat-norwich-to-revive-premier-league-promotion-bid-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:15:19","slug":"leicester-beat-norwich-to-revive-premier-league-promotion-bid-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/leicester-beat-norwich-to-revive-premier-league-promotion-bid-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester beat Norwich to revive Premier League promotion bid | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLONDON:
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Leicester reignited their bid for automatic promotion to the Premier League<\/a> with a 3-1 win at home to Norwich on Monday.<\/p>\n

Victory at the King Power Stadium meant the Foxes returned to the top of English football’s second-tier Championship, if merely for a few hours before promotion rivals Ipswich and Leeds are in action later in the day.<\/p>\n

Goals from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy enabled Leicester to complete a comeback after Gabriel Sara’s fourth goal in as many games gave Norwich the lead.<\/p>\n

Leicester<\/a> have topped the table for much of the season, but Monday’s success was just their third win in eight Championship games.<\/p>\n

Only the top two clubs at the end of the regular season are guaranteed automatic promotion to the Premier League, with Leicester now a point ahead of second-placed Ipswich and two clear of Leeds, currently in third place.<\/p>\n

“This was important, because we are in the final part of the season,” said Leicester manager Enzo Maresca.<\/p>\n

He added: “Probably in the last six games, we won one game and it was the one we didn’t deserve — Sunderland. We lost four games, and not one of them we deserved to lose.<\/p>\n

“At the end, we are human beings – we have emotions so when we scored the last one with Jamie, the game was finished, so we were all happy and we enjoyed the moment.”<\/p>\n

Defeat left Norwich in sixth position — still in contention to reach the post-season play-offs that will decide which club gets the third and final promotion spot.<\/p>\n

Liam Kitching scored two own goals as Coventry lost ground in the race for a play-off place following a 2-1 home defeat by Cardiff.<\/p>\n

West Brom extended their unbeaten run to eight games by coming from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Watford.<\/p>\n

The Hornets led through goals from Edo Kayembe and substitute Mileta Rajovic, but Brandon Thomas-Asante brought the Baggies back into the game before Darnell Furlong snatched a point at the death.<\/p>\n

Ellis Simms’ 17th goal of the season gave the Sky Blues a 22nd-minute lead but Kitching twice put through his own net, the first of them in stunning style.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the table, Rotherham staved off relegation for at least another week with a 2-1 win over Millwall.<\/p>\n

This was just Rotherham’s fourth league win of the season, with the Millers scoring twice in the last 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Seb Revan put them ahead in the 71st minute before Ryan Longman equalised for Millwall. But four minutes from time, on-loan striker Charlie Wyke headed in a winner for Rotherham.<\/p>\n

Birmingham moved two points clear of the relegation zone with a 1-0 win over play-off hopefuls Preston, Jay Stansfield scoring the only goal of the game.<\/p>\n

Blackburn won for the first time in 10 league games with a crushing 5-1 win at Sunderland where Sammie Szmodics scored twice to take his tally for the season to 23 goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON: Leicester reignited their bid for automatic promotion to the Premier League with a 3-1 win at home to Norwich on Monday. Victory at the King Power Stadium meant the Foxes returned to the top of English football’s second-tier Championship, if merely for a few hours before promotion rivals Ipswich and Leeds are in action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-02-at-7-06-45-AM1712023765-0\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-02-at-7-06-45-AM1712023765-0.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t