{"id":334657,"date":"2025-08-11T02:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334657\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:40:26","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-add-defeat-by-leicester-city-to-list-of-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334657\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday add defeat by Leicester City to list of problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

They came to condemn Dejphon Chansiri but Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s 3,500-strong following stayed to applaud the players the Thai had failed to pay properly over the summer, plunging the club into chaos.<\/p>\n

The post-Jamie Vardy era at Leicester City began with a victory under the new manager Mart\u00ed Cifuentes as second-half goals from Jannick Vestergaard and the substitute Wout Faes overturned Nathaniel Chalobah\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n

Yet even in defeat Wednesday, who only had 15 senior players to call upon, had exceeded expectations. City only just attained theirs, with Faes\u2019 87th-minute goal coming after the Wednesday captain Barry Bannan had been sent off.<\/p>\n

\u201cDejphon Chansiri, get out of our club\u201d sang the away end at regular intervals but the noise they made at the end was reserved solely for the manager Henrik Pedersen and his players. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s togetherness in some ways,\u201d said Pedersen after his first competitive game as Danny Rohl\u2019s successor. \u201cOur fans are a big inspiration to our players. Of course it was a big help. The boys and the fans were a really good couple today.\u201d<\/p>\n

A huge majority of those fans had been absent until the fifth minute in protest against tuna magnate Chansiri\u2019s substandard stewardship<\/a> in his tenth season as owner. Missed wage payments in June and July led to a depleted squad refusing to play a pre-season friendly, and with Rohl already having engineered his own exit it was dismal preparation for a 46-game slog, especially as a points deduction will surely follow.<\/p>\n

Pedersen confirmed that \u201cfive or six\u201d players had made their own way to the Midlands on Saturday so they could stay in a hotel. These were joined by the rest of the squad at a pre-arranged time before kick-off. \u201cIt\u2019s how it is right now,\u201d said the Dane, who added that he did not know whether the bill had been paid by the players themselves.<\/p>\n

Despite all this the underdogs excelled from the moment Pierce Charles, the goalkeeper, made his first of 11 saves \u2014 and it was noticeable that the Leicester fans applauded their counterparts when finally they began coming in.<\/p>\n

\"Sheffield<\/p>\n

Chalobah\u2019s goal was his first for the club he joined in July last year<\/p>\n

MANJIT NAROTRA\/PROSPORTS\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/p>\n

Some were still not in their seats when Chalobah hit a post or even when he gave his side the lead in the 26th minute, latching on to Yan Valery\u2019s pull-back to unleash a shot that was diverted past the goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk by City midfielder Oliver Skipp.<\/p>\n

Chalobah had to go off injured soon after, however, but luck was back with Wednesday when Vestergaard somehow headed wide from four yards.<\/p>\n

The Denmark defender made no mistake with his feet nine minutes into the second half when Wednesday failed to deal with a low free kick, although Harry Winks, a half-time replacement for Skipp, appeared to be offside and involved.<\/p>\n

Wednesday survived a nervy spell with nine men when Jamal Lowe and Valery were hurt and were down to ten for the remainder in the 76th minute when Bannan, cautioned five minutes earlier, was shown a second yellow card for catching Winks as both players slid for the ball.<\/p>\n

\"Sheffield<\/p>\n

Fans left seats empty except for banners for the start of the televised game\u2026<\/p>\n

MIKE EGERTON\/PA WIRE<\/p>\n

\"Plane<\/p>\n

\u2026 and a plane flew over the King Power reinforcing the message to the Wednesday owner<\/p>\n

MIKE EGERTON\/PA WIRE<\/p>\n

\"Leicester<\/p>\n

After players including Josh Windass left for nothing over the summer, travelling Wednesday fans held banners during their season opener<\/p>\n

MANJIT NAROTRA\/PROSPORTS\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/p>\n

The teenage substitute Jeremy Monga saw his diving header saved by Charles but Faes, another late replacement, nodded home the winner when Wednesday failed to pick him up from the resulting corner. The ten men, with little experience on the bench, had nothing left to give and it was up to Charles kept the score down.<\/p>\n

Leicester, also owned by a Thai in Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, are off and running in their quest for an instant Premier League return but have their own financial problems, with the midfielder Wilfred Ndidi and goalkeeper Mads Hermansen both sold in the past few days.<\/p>\n

A points deduction for a 2023-24 overspend is likely to happen and with Jordan Ayew so far a substandard inheritor of Vardy\u2019s famed No9 shirt \u2014 which many fans felt should instead have been retired \u2014 Cifuentes, the former Queens Park Rangers head coach, has much to ponder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Championship is a ruthless league,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a good lesson for everyone to understand that we cannot take anything for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leicester City (4-2-3-1)<\/b> J Stolarczyk 7 \u2014 J Justin 7 (P Daka 78min), C Okoli 7 (W Faes 70), J Vestergaard 7, L Thomas 6 \u2014 O Skipp 5 (H Winks 46, 6), B Soumare 6 \u2014 A Fatawu 6 (K McAteer 78), B El Khannouss 7, S Mavididi 7 (J Monga 70) \u2014 J Ayew 6.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Wednesday (5-3-2)<\/b> P Charles 8 \u2014 Y Valery 7 (O Kobacki 70), L Palmer 7, D Iorfa 7, G Otegbayo 7 (I Ugbo 90), M Lowe 7 \u2014 S Ingelsson 7, N Chalobah 7 (S Fusire 33, 6), B Bannan 6 \u2014 J Lowe 6 (C McNeill 90), B Cadamarteri 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They came to condemn Dejphon Chansiri but Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s 3,500-strong following stayed to applaud the players the Thai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007823945222763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}