Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday join stacked League One as underdogs eye upset | OneFootball

Leicester City are back in the third tier for the first time since 2009, 10 years after winning the Premier League, as Sheffield Wednesday start a new era under fresh ownership. Bromley, last season’s League Two champions, step up to League One for the first time.

BBC UK notes that expectations are vast, especially at Leicester, where only promotion will satisfy, while for Bromley the pressure is off.

AFC Wimbledon, led by Johnnie Jackson after finishing 19th, aim simply to stay clear of trouble and improve. Dan Sweeney joins from Stevenage, Steve Seddon re-signs, while Omar Bugiel has moved to Suzhou Dongwu. Solid defensively but streaky, with runs often followed by droughts, the Dons will look to the technically gifted Marcus Browne.

Barnsley have turned back to Daniel Stendel, replacing Conor Hourihane, after finishing 15th. The German, who took them up in 2018-19, operates on a tight budget, so promotion feels a long shot and a top-half finish would be progress, though fans still expect play-off contention. Cameron McGeehan, Sam Gale and Clayton Taylor are in, with David McGoldrick, Adam Phillips and Eoghan O’Connell out.

Stendel favours a high-energy press and has retained Patrick Kelly, Luca Connell and Reyes Cleary to anchor it. Yet goals and experience have gone, with last season’s leading trio McGoldrick, Davis Keillor-Dunn and Phillips departed. Kelly, 21, ended last season as a Northern Ireland international and scored against France before this summer’s World Cup.

Source: BBC UK

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