Leicester was relegated to the championship on the first time of asking after they had not defeated Liverpool on Sunday afternoon when the Reds came closer to the award -winning the Premier League champions.
When they go to the game at the King Power Stadium, the Foxes knew that only a victory would keep their already slender survival hopes alive.
But all the dreams of what would have been a miraculous escape were crushed by Liverpool, who sent them to a 23rd league defeat of the season.
It was Trent Alexander-Arnold who found the back of the Net in the 76th minute of the game to win 1-0 on Sunday afternoon.
It saw a scene of contrasting emotions after the full -time whistle, with the home fans and players depressed while the stars of Liverpool and traveling contingent were celebrated in a full -time jubilant way.
The Foxes join Southampton because they are already being relegated to the championship, whereby those two teams are probably accompanied by Ipswich Town.
If that happened, this would mark the second consecutive season that all three promoted parties were banned to the second layer at the first time.
Confading of the relegation of Leicester also pushed the pressure on manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, who took over in December after firing Steve Cooper.
Although it was hoped that the former Star of Manchester United could cause an increase in form for the East Midlands outfit, the results did not come true.
The struggles of the team were most clearly in the attack – because they succeeded in scoring in just three Premier League matches since their inverted fixture against Liverpool on Boxing Day.
Now they have to dust themselves to concentrate on a new push to return to the Premier League at the first time of asking, as they did under the last campaign of Enzo Maresca before he was picked up by Chelsea.
They seem to be up to experience the next term for an automatic promotion place if this year's campaign in the second layer is something to enter into.
On the way to the house of the season, Leeds United, Sheffield United and Burnley are locked up in a three-way strap to prevent the play-offs.
Although all three of those parties can still rise, that is no guarantee, as Leeds discovered last year by losing the Play-off final to Southampton who had been in the top two for a large part of 2023-24.