{"id":11062,"date":"2021-12-10T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=171894"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:14:52","slug":"brendan-rodgers-leicester-city-is-out-of-the-europa-league-after-losing-3-2-to-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/brendan-rodgers-leicester-city-is-out-of-the-europa-league-after-losing-3-2-to-napoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers\u2019 Leicester City is out of the Europa League after losing 3-2 to Napoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another bad day at the office for Brendan Rodgers as his team Leicester City was defeated by an Italian side named Napoli. However, the scoreline of 3-2 doesn\u2019t say the whole story. Leicester City couldn\u2019t go through to the knockout stages in the Europa League 2021\/22 season. Looking back at their trophies last season, the two that they won namely FA Cup and Community Shield, Leicester City was among the favorites to win this UEFA Europa League. But, unfortunately, they couldn\u2019t even make it to the \u2018Round of 32\u2032 of the competition. Brendan Rodgers\u2019 men were in the same competition last season. Even last year\u2019s Europa was not good for Leicester as they were knocked out by Slavia Prague in the \u2018Round of 32.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Napoli, who is in great form this season in their Italian league Serie A, started the game on the front foot and they opened the scoring in just the 4th minute. After Leicester\u2019s Tielemans gave the ball away to Petagna, he ran and switches the play to Napoli\u2019s midfielder Adam Ounas who made no mistake and gave the lead to the host. They didn\u2019t take much time for the second goal either, in the 24th minute the lead was extended to 2-0 after Elif Elmas finds an empty net. Despite conceding two early goals, Rodgers\u2019 men weren\u2019t going behind, they found their first goal when Jonny Evans strikes the ball hard after Maddison\u2019s decent free-kick inside the box. Later in the 33rd minute, Leicester City\u2019s midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall\u2019s volley at the edge of the box was enough to beat the goalkeeper and equalize for the away side.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u23f1 93\u2019 | Finita \u23f9<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NapoliLeicester?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NapoliLeicester<\/a> 3-2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForzaNapoliSempre?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForzaNapoliSempre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AcHSJdi8Uo\">pic.twitter.com\/AcHSJdi8Uo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Official SSC Napoli (@sscnapoli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sscnapoli\/status\/1469029529050128393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the last goal of the game was scored by Napoli\u2019s midfielder Elif Elmas again, who made it 3-2 in the 53rd minute. Premier League side tried hard but couldn\u2019t find an equalizer and it was all over for Leicester after the final whistle was blown by the referee. Leicester is now out of the Europa League and has been dropped into the UEFA Europa Conference League as their disappointing form continues this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian side Napoli who is in great form this season defeated the English Premier League team Leicester City 3-2 to progress through to the next stages of the Europa League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2413,2700,2446,2586,2623,1752,179],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-caglar-soyuncu","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-italian-serie-a","tag-jamie-vardy","tag-leicester-city","tag-napoli"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}