Forgotten Foxes backed for top-six finish at 6/1 - Jones Knows

Are Leicester the forgotten team in the Premier League? With Wesley Fofana fit and an improving young squad, Jones Knows is jumping on the Foxes bandwagon. 2pts on Leicester to finish in the top-six (6/1 with Sky Bet - Bet Here!)

Being able to legitimately forgive a downturn in performance using logical reasoning is a key trait of unearthing value in the betting markets across all sports. It's mostly used in horse racing where being able to find a piece of evidence to forgive a horse a bad run can usually put a punter on to a way of beating the market.

Leicester City finished a disappointing eighth in the Premier League last season, picking up 52 points. It was a 12-point underachievement on what we had seen from Brendan Rodgers' side in the two previous seasons.

Is this the start of the decline under Rodgers? At various points last season there were a few murmurings of discontent regarding his position - something that quietened down towards a relatively strong finish to the campaign where they made the Europa Conference League semi-finals and won three of their last four Premier League games, scoring 13 goals in the process.

Those wins over the final stretch against Norwich, Watford and Southampton - and the 1-1 draw with Chelsea - were more like the Leicester of the previous two and half seasons since Rodgers was appointed in February 2019. So, can we excuse them for such mediocrity for the majority of last season?

There certainly are valid excuses. Key defensive injuries cost them the opportunity to play Wesley Fofana and Jonny Evans together as a partnership last season. That was massive.

The duo played/started together just six times in the Premier League in 2021/22, conceding just seven goals when both of them