LONDON -- Leicester City not only lost Sunday's meeting with Arsenal 2-0, they also passed the baton to their hosts as the team most likely to gatecrash the Premier League's top four.
Brendan Rodgers' side were knocking on the door of Champions League football in the past two seasons, capitulating at the end of both campaigns in a manner that will serve as a warning from history to Arsenal for the run-in that lies ahead. The Foxes have not been able to match those heights this term -- never finishing a matchweek any higher than eighth -- but while Leicester have fallen away, the identity of the side most likely to take their place has not been particularly clear until now.