Enzo Maresca won the League Championship’s Best Coach award for winning the first four games of the tournament. The match ended at home against Hull, beating Leicester 1-0 at the King Power Stadium.
The race to the top of this tournament is huge and after 4 wins, 12 points, Leicester are 3rd in the table, ahead of Preston and Ipswich just behind the goal difference compared to the direct promotion position.
The start is great, but it’s still difficult because the points are of course a lot of money but are calculated in a specific way, not really suitable for the new system in place. The new manager agrees on the next goal.
This is the first time since Claudio Ranieri won the Coach of the Month award in May 2016, and I hope these wins continue as Leicester chase those promotions. Michael Appleton returns to take charge of Charlton Athletic. He left his managerial role at Oxford in 2017 to take up an assistant role at Leicester, under Craig Shakespeare, but just months after arriving he became interim boss and made no mistake No mistake, with an unbeaten streak, win 2/2. before the appointment of Claude Puel.
Over the past decade, Appleton has twice created successful teams with a young and growing core. He led Oxford United to promotion to League One in the 2015/16 season with a young team that included many emerging talents such as Kemar Roofe and John Lundstram.
The U’s then narrowly missed out on the play-offs in the club’s first League One campaign the following season. He took Lincoln City to the 2020/21 League One play-off final, bringing out the best in another promising team, with Brennan Johnson, now of Tottenham Hotspur, enjoying an outstanding season. excellent under his management.
Appleton’s last managerial spell was at Blackpool, serving as head coach since the start of the 2022/23 season, but lasting just seven months with the Seasiders, struggling at the bottom of the Championship of the League.
It’s good to see Appleton back in management at Charlton Athletic, taking over from Dean Holden, who lost his job after just five games, becoming the first to be sacked by the EFL this season. Charlton are currently ranked 16th in the Championship.
