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City Beaten In Bournemouth

Leicester City were on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline at AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, as our Premier League season came to a close.

2025-05-25T18:00+01:00

by Sam Stevens

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25 May, 2025

City Beaten In Bournemouth

Leicester City were on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline at AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, as our Premier League season came to a close.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-25T18:00+01:00

City Beaten In Bournemouth

Leicester City were on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline at AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, as our Premier League season came to a close.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-25T18:00+01:00

City Beaten In Bournemouth

Leicester City were on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline at AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, as our Premier League season came to a close.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-25T18:00+01:00

City Beaten In Bournemouth

Leicester City were on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline at AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, as our Premier League season came to a close.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-25T18:00+01:00

Already relegated back to the Sky Bet Championship last month, Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men had taken seven points from a possible nine heading into this clash with the ninth-placed Cherries on the south coast.

Nevertheless, Antoine Semenyo’s late brace gave the home side a deserved victory at Vitality Stadium. City have finished in 18th this term, on 25 points, 13 adrift of survival. It has not been a year to savour for the Foxes, as we now turn our attention to the 25/26 campaign in the second tier.

The Cherries start strong

The Foxes withstood pressure early on but showed flashes of promise too. Oliver Skipp, back in the starting XI, almost gave us a dream start when the ex-Spurs man pounced on a loose ball and fired a half-volley over the bar.

The Cherries responded instantly. Evanilson fizzed a shot narrowly wide before Justin Kluivert drilled a low effort just the wrong side of Jakub Stolarczyk’s post. The Leicester ‘keeper was soon in action again, denying David Brooks with a smart save.

Skipp thought he’d found the opener later on, mind you, tapping in after Kasey McAteer latched onto Jordan Ayew’s clever through ball – but the flag was up. McAteer had strayed offside, and the goal was chalked off.

Bournemouth kept pushing and were on top throughout in truth. Stolarczyk had to be sharp to parry a thunderbolt from Brooks, then smothering another effort from the Welshman at point-blank range to keep the hosts at bay heading into half-time.

Holding in there

The Cherries kept their foot on the gas after the break. Within five minutes, Brooks played a short free-kick to Tavernier on the corner of the box. The former Middlesbrough winger curled a dangerous effort towards the top corner, but Stolarczyk produced a flying fingertip save to turn it behind.

Semenyo lashed a half-volley over moments later after a kind bounce in the area, while Tavernier went to ground under pressure from McAteer. Referee Lewis Smith waved it away, but a VAR check briefly paused proceedings to confirm the on-field decision.

Daniel Jebbison, barely on for two minutes, also thought he’d scored after Evanilson’s cross deflected off Wout Faes and fell kindly. He tapped in from close range and celebrated, but it was deemed to have curled out of play, above Stolarczyk’s crossbar, before it reached him. Just a corner, and nothing more.

Semenyo wins it

City were finding it to tough to create meaningful inroads, but a rare foray forward gave us brief hope. McAteer surged through midfield and chipped a ball into Ayew. The forward, though, couldn’t get it out of his feet under pressure, and the moment passed.

Soon after, the Cherries finally made their dominance count. The breakthrough came when Tavernier whipped in a teasing ball, Illia Zabarnyi nodded it down, and Semenyo was there to coolly fire past Stolarczyk.

Jebbison spurned a late chance to make it two, skying it over from close range – but Semenyo wasn’t about to be so forgiving. In added time, he rifled in a long-range rocket to bag his brace and seal Bournemouth’s highest-ever Premier League points total. A debut from the bench for Olabade Aluko, with Jeremy Monga and Jake Evans already on, was a late positive for the Foxes, with all focus now on the future ahead of the 25/26 Championship season.

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