West Brom v Leicester: Premier League – Live! | Football

Back to the real world, the teams are out, unnecessarily loud music is playing over the PA, and no handshakes are exchanged. Imminent start.

Russell Yong writes in: “There have been four internationals from St Kitts and Nevis in the Premier League: Bobby Bowry and Sagi Burton for Crystal Palace, Adam Newton for West Ham and Calum Willock for Fulham. Bowry was the first, in the 1992-93 season. However, none have scored yet in the Premier League. We hope Romaine is the first! “

Calum willockBy the way, he was a true supreme footballer. His CV is as follows: Fulham, QPR (loan), Bristol Rovers (loan), Peterborough United (loan), Peterborough United, Brentford, Port Vale, Stevenage Borough, Crawley Town, Cambridge United (loan), Ebbsfleet United, Dover Athletic , Boreham Wood, Harrow Borough (loan), Staines Town, Lewes, Dulwich Hamlet, Merstham, Farnborough, Cray Valley Paper Mills. Beautiful things.

Bilic and Rogers have met just once before in the Premier League, and it didn’t end well for poor Brendan. Fortunately for him, the Caglar Soyuncu insurance is unlikely to endure the kind of nightmare Dejan Lovren had that day. Right…?

And for the sake of balance:

Then Bilic chooses to keep Hal Robson-Kanu and Charlie Austin on the bench (20 goals between them last season) for the young Irishman Callum Robinson (three goals last season). On defense, Ahmed Hegazi’s high-flying experience is bypassed by Kyle Bartley and Semi Ajayi’s grizzled acquaintance. And is midfielder Romaine Sawyers the first Premier League international for St Kitts and Nevis? Answers on a postcard.

As for Leicester, Timothy Castagne makes his debut after a £ 18 million move from Atalanta and James Maddison is fit enough just for the bank. But he’s a strong bench, and at Tielemans, Barnes, Perez and Vardy, he’s also one of the attackers’ four forwards. The formation? Your guest is as good as mine.

West brom: Johnstone, Furlong, Gibbs, O’Shea, Bartley, Ajayi, Sawyers, Livermore, Diangana, Pereira, Robinson.
Subs: Button, Hegazi, Harper, Edwards, Grosicki, Robson-Kanu, Austin.

Leicester: Schmeichel, Justin, Castagne, Soyuncu, Ndidi, Mendy, Praet, Tielemans, Barnes, Perez, Vardy.
Subs: Ward, Maddison, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Choudhury, Fuchs, Thomas.

Leicester flying high in second place! Brendan Rodgers in contention for coach of the year! A top four dive! Global pandemics confined to an implausible dystopian fiction!
It seems like a lifetime ago, right? In fact, it wasn’t that long: a little less than half a football season, in fact. This year. But since then, the mighty Foxes have seen their own steep decline in form, a series of brutal injuries, the rapid revival of Manchester United, the slower revival of Spurs and Arsenal, Jamie Vardy’s 33rd birthday and a scary summer. Chelsea’s splurge transfer.

And suddenly Leicester’s new normal looks a lot like the old normal: trying to keep up with the wealthy elite while its best players are chosen right under their noses – Ben Chilwell’s summer departure is the most obvious consequence of his failure to make it to the first four.

Maybe they should have taken some advice Slaven Bilic’s Baggies, who kept up their momentum through the winter, through the close and after the restart to seal second place and promotion with relative ease. His return to the top flight is very welcome, not just because of Bilic’s heavy metal machismo but because of his team’s equally boisterous style of play.

Did you think Leeds was fun? This group scored the same number of goals last season and conceded 10 more. To those ends, the focus is on Brazilian winger Matheus Periera, key to last season’s entertainment, and young playmaker Grady Diangana, another key creator whose departure from East London saw the West Ham captain. up in arms.

The days are gone Apparently when promoted teams put their hopes on two benches of four and a big boy at the top. These days they tend to go out and play, and West Brom certainly will. As, of course, will Rodgers’ Leicester, which at least tends to guarantee fun. So this should be a blast. Turn on the kettle.