{"id":844059,"date":"2026-09-11T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:44:10","slug":"five-things-to-watch-in-efl-high-flying-sheffield-wednesday-and-boing-ing-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844059\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things to watch in EFL: High-flying Sheffield Wednesday and boing-ing West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While West Brom are sitting pretty at the top of the Championship, one of the sides who fell short in last season&#8217;s survival battle were Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Foxes are now languishing in 18th in League One, with just five points from their opening five games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are already seven points behind leaders Sheffield Wednesday, who won just two games in the Championship last season albeit under exceptional circumstances, and lost their last game 4-0 at home against the other side to come down, Oxford United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The momentum at the King Power is firmly downwards, but it has to change at some point, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday they travel to Stockport (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the Foxes were enjoying their finest hour, winning the Premier League in 2015-16, the Hatters finished ninth in National League North &#8211; 125 places below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five years ago, when Leicester last played in Europe and finished eighth in the Premier League, County were in the National League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both clubs are under new stewardship this season, but Jimmy McNulty has Stockport 15 places higher than Russell Martin&#8217;s men and Hatters fans will be hoping to continue that momentum in the first league meeting between the sides in 18 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While West Brom are sitting pretty at the top of the Championship, one of the sides who fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-844059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}