{"id":597660,"date":"2021-07-30T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597660"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:29:22","slug":"marc-albrighton-leicester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/30\/marc-albrighton-leicester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Albrighton: Winger Signs New Contract With Leicester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Albrighton has signed a new contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/02\/boubakary-soumare-leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a>, agreeing a new three-year deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcfc.com\/news\/2201861\/marc-albrighton-extends-leicester-city-stay\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winger has been a key player at the King Power Stadium since joining in 2014.<\/p>\n<h2>Marc Albrighton Agrees New Contract With Leicester City<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Long-Serving Winger Extends Stay<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Marc Albrighton joined Leicester City from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/30\/southampton-villa-ward-prowse\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> in 2014. He made 18 appearances in 2014\/15, but he really came to the fore in the following season. He played every single Premier League game as Leicester City surprised everyone by winning the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has made 201 Premier League appearances for the club, and 253 in all competitions since joining. He was part of their historic UEFA Champions League appearance in 2016\/17, scoring twice in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Albrighton is one of Leicester&#8217;s most consistent performers since 2014. He is one of the few players to have been part of both the 2015\/16 Premier League win and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/15\/leicester-city-fairytale-continues-with-first-ever-fa-cup-success\/\" target=\"_self\">2020\/21 FA Cup win<\/a>, alongside Kasper Schmeichel, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/21\/leicester-city-confirm-wes-morgans-retirement\/\" target=\"_self\">Wes Morgan<\/a>, Christian Fuchs and Jamie Vardy.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season, he played a pivotal role in the business end of the season, as Leicester survived relegation by winning seven of the last nine games. He functioned as a wing-back in a 3-5-2 formation and helped his side survive.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Recognition for His Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As previously mentioned, Albrighton has been a consistent performer for the club, and featured in some of the Foxes biggest moments over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>He began the 2015\/16 with a goal in Leicester&#8217;s opening day win over Sunderland, and ended up appearing in all 38 games as they defied the odds to win the Premier League. He scored the club&#8217;s first ever UEFA Champions League goal in the 2016\/17 season against Club Brugge. The 31-year-old also scored in the Round of 16 win over Sevilla, and he has a permanent place in the club&#8217;s history books.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his time at the club, Albrighton has been dependable, and every manager has trusted him. He is versatile, able to play as a full-back, wing-back or winger.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"_x-05oGiTE5rMJjmpNXWPQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1331479938\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'_x-05oGiTE5rMJjmpNXWPQ',sig:'8x7TjogPxOhPCXmJMyIVRrINTNn4rLCqRwyhtef1a-w=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1331479938',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Albrighton has signed a new contract with Leicester City, agreeing a new three-year deal with the club. The winger has been a key player at the King Power Stadium since joining in 2014. Marc Albrighton Agrees New Contract With Leicester City Long-Serving Winger Extends Stay Marc Albrighton joined Leicester City from Aston Villa in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3900,"featured_media":597676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,15,3],"tags":[5662],"class_list":["post-597660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","tag-marc-albrighton"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}