Leicester City 2-1 West Ham: Foxes relegated from Premier League despite win on final day

Harvey Barnes scored his 13th extremity of the play for Leicester

Leicester City's nine-year enactment successful the Premier League came to an extremity arsenic they were relegated successful agonising manner contempt beating West Ham connected the last time of the season.

While Toffees fans were successful ecstasy astatine Goodison Park, Leicester supporters astatine the King Power were near to rue a miserable run successful which they won lone 9 league matches.

Knowing they needed a triumph to person immoderate accidental of staying up, Leicester went adjacent aboriginal connected erstwhile Kelechi Iheanacho exchanged passes with James Maddison earlier clipping the crossbar with a vicious, curling effort.

The hosts did interruption the deadlock done Harvey Barnes' chill decorativeness from Iheanacho's walk to pb astatine half-time, and astatine that signifier they were staying up connected extremity difference.

Jonny Evans astir headed into his ain nett successful a nerve-jangling 2nd half, but the stadium was silenced erstwhile connection filtered done astir Everton scoring.

Said Benrahma struck a delightful curling effort against the station for the visitors, earlier Wout Faes headed successful Leicester's 2nd goal.

Pablo Fornals pulled a extremity backmost by stabbing successful via the station arsenic the Hammers finished 14th, six points wide of the relegation zone.

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Champions League to Championship

Leicester's crippled finished earlier Everton's, which meant the Foxes players had to hold connected the transportation for confirmation to travel done that they were relegated.

Some huddled astir defender Victor Kristiansen's phone, but immoderate glimmer of anticipation was extinguished erstwhile the full-time whistle blew astatine Goodison.

Many of the assemblage jeered, but immoderate did spend their players a generous ovation erstwhile they applauded the fans earlier heading down the passageway and retired of the apical flight.

Leicester person been the architects of their ain downfall, ending a wretched play with conscionable 3 wins from their last 17 games and keeping conscionable 1 cleanable expanse since November.

Dean Smith's mandate erstwhile helium was appointed successful April was to sphere the presumption of a broadside that were daze champions lone 7 years ago, but 9 points from his 8 games successful complaint was simply not enough.

And that means relegation to the Championship conscionable six years aft they reached the Champions League quarter-finals.

Barnes' delightful decorativeness and a 1-0 half-time pb gave the Foxes optimism they whitethorn conscionable enactment alive.

But aft Everton took the pb done Abdoulaye Doucoure's superb strike, Faes' extremity mattered small arsenic Bournemouth could not find a mode through.

Leicester supporters did interruption retired into cheers connected a fig of occasions arsenic quality dispersed of a Cherries 'equaliser' - but each clip it was a mendacious dawn.

A summertime of upheaval follows for the Foxes, with Maddison and Barnes the astir sellable assets, and 7 players and manager Smith retired of contract.

More to follow.

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