The promoted clubs should learn from the mistakes that Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich made this season
By WhoScored
For the second successive season, all three promoted sides have been relegated back to the Championship. Reaching the Premier League is the ultimate ambition for clubs in the second tier, but staying there is becoming increasingly difficult. The gap between the top flight and Championship is widening with each passing season. When the three promoted clubs – Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United – went straight back down last year it seemed like a quirk, something that had only happened once before in the history of English football, in the 1997-98 season. But now it feels like a trend.
Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich have gone down without putting up much of a fight; they picked up just 59 points between them, down on the already paltry total of 66 points that Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United won the season before as they slipped back to the Championship. To put that in some context, the promoted teams won 100 points a decade ago and 151 two decades ago. The “battle” to avoid relegation this season was settled with four games to play – the earliest in Premier League history – and the best of the promoted teams, Leicester, finished 13 points adrift of the team in 17th, the biggest gap between relegation and safety in the history of the league.
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