If this is what life without Chris Wilder looks like for Sheffield United, they might consider asking him back as Kelechi Iheanacho’s hat-trick sent the Blades to their heaviest defeat of the season in their first game without their era-defining manager.
Iheanacho’s first Leicester treble, along with another from Ayoze Perez and an own-goal from Ethan Ampadu, suggested Wilder’s departure by mutual consent is weighing heavily on this group of players. With relegation now nearly inevitable, there was little caretaker-boss Paul Heckingbottom could do to reverse the trend of the 2020-21 campaign. Indeed, their second-half display was so poor that they were lucky to concede only five.