Albrighton: Naive to think Leicester could win Premier League again

Marc Albrighton feels it was "naive" to think
Leicester City could repeat their fairytale season
and claim back-to-back Premier League titles.
Leicester produced one of the greatest
achievements in sport when they went from
relegation contenders to Premier League
champions last season.
The 2016-17 campaign was a different beast for
Leicester, who sensationally sacked iconic
manager Claudio Ranieri amid the threat of
relegation in February.
However, Leicester sealed survival with Saturday's
3-0 win against Watford and winger Albrighton
believes the Foxes achieved their targets, having
also reached the Champions League quarter-finals
this term.
"The top six or seven sides are probably ones
you'd look at and say that's where they should be.
We set ourselves standards with how we played
and what we achieved last season," said
Albrighton.
"Everybody then automatically wants you to go and
do the same again, because that's what champions
have done in the past.
"People assume when you've won it that you will
be in contention again. That's a rod we gave
ourselves by achieving what we did and so we
have to deal with the criticism we attracted.
"I'd be very surprised if I see another 5000-1 team
win it in my lifetime. To expect us to go and win it
a second year was a bit naive.
"Everybody in football and in sport knew that our
last season was fantastic, but probably a bit of a
freak season.
"If we can finish in the top half and with what
we've achieved in the Champions League we can
sort of say it wasn't a bad season after all."