Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has blasted his team’s “embarrassing” Premier League title defence.
The champions are just a point above the relegation zone after slipping to a wretched 3-0 defeat against Manchester United on Sunday.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Juan Mata scored to earn United a comfortable victory and leave the Foxes deep in relegation danger.
Schmeichel told Sky Sports: “It’s not a situation that’s comfortable at all. We’re the reigning champions and quite frankly it’s been terrible, it’s been embarrassing.
“It’s not good enough and it sums our season up at the moment. Let’s not talk about last season, last season’s gone, as you can clearly see.
“We have to improve right now. It’s time for every single one of us, right from the top to the bottom of this club, to stand up and be counted because if we don’t we’re going to end up getting relegated, and nobody wants that.”
United boss Jose Mourinho has questioned why his style is now appreciated in England.
The Red Devils are unbeaten in their last 15 league games following their comfortable victory at the King Power Stadium.
And Mourinho, who won the title three times during two spells with Chelsea, asked why his style is accepted this year.
He said: “My team is playing very well but for many, many years in my career, especially in this country, when my teams were ruthless and when they were phenomenal defensively and very good in the counter attack, I listened week after week it was not enough, in spite of winning the title three times.
“It looks like this season to be phenomenal defensively and be good at the counter attack is art, so it’s a big change in England.
“I don’t want to change the profile of our play. This is the way we want to play. I don’t want to be the manager of a team that plays very well, creates chances and doesn’t win matches. We need to score goals and we did.”
Andy
Guest
They were never going to win it again but to be so far down the table is shocking. The premier league is very competitive with very few easy games for any team but with winning last season Leicester should be in the top 10.
Albo
Guest
Yep ! Whilst they lost their best player ( Kante) to Chelsea this year, they still have virtually the same squad as last year . They are now back to their 2014 / 2015 position struggling to avoid relegation. It shows just what a miracle season they had last year where all the stars & moons aligned ( and the big 6 all flopped at the same time!). A modern miracle !
mattq
Guest
if Liverpool haven't been able to do it in the EPL era then Leicester had no chance.
Mister Football
Roar Guru
I wouldn't go as far as to say it was 100% guaranteed, but yeh, the odds were definitely in favour of it happening. When a club like Leicester scales the mountain top and achieves the impossible dream, one wonders whether they can retain that hunger, togetherness and team-first ethos that allowed them to do it in the first place. Very difficult to keep that going.
Doc Disnick
Roar Guru
This was always going to happen.