Leicester City was banned from the Premier League after Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool had won a 1-0 victory at the King Power Stadium.
The right back had a rapid impact on his return of an injury to relocate Liverpool within one victory of achieving the title.
Mohamed Salah hit both posts within three minutes, while his shot rolled along the goal line before Wilfred Ndidi also hit the woodwork on the other side.
Mads Hermansen was in good shape in the goal of Leicester and made great saves to deny Salah, Cody Gakpo and Kostas Tsimikas while Liverpool raised the pressure.
However, it was the foxes who thought they had opened the score in the 67th minute when Conor Coady went up close, but it was not allowed for an error on Alisson by Patson Daka.
Salah and Diogo Jota both get the woodwork in a chaotic structure of the winner before the powerful volley of Alexander-Arnold finally defeated Hermansen nine minutes later.
Liverpool recovered their 13-point lead on Arsenal, who could hand them the title if they lose to Crystal Palace on Wednesday. If this is not the case, they can achieve the next Sunday with a victory over Tottenham.
Leicester has been relegated to save five games, sitting on the 19th with 18 points, unable to catch West Ham from 17th place.
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– Premier League (@premierleague) April 20, 2025
Data debrief: Down and Out
Leicester has been relegated for the fifth time from the Premier League (1994-95, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2022-23 and 2024-25), with only Norwich City (six) ever relegations (West Brom also five).
While they set up a good fight on Sunday, they could not end their scorching run, because they became the first team in the best history of the top that nine consecutive home competitions went without scoring.
It was also the first competition match at the King Power in which they had not been given no shot on goal since February 2023 (0 against Arsenal).
As far as Liverpool is concerned, they picked up their 24th victory of the Premier League campaign, and only recorded more through 33 games of a top-flight season on two previous occasions (25 in 2018-19 and 29 in 2019-2020).
Alexander-Arnold had the last day and is the first defender to replace and scores the winning goal for Liverpool in a Premier League match since Martin Skrtel in August 2011 against Bolton Wanderers.