The Leicester City Thread (merged)

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jacko74 said:
I've never seen stats like it before in terms of possession... just taking yesterday for example, only 38% possession yet they win 4-0!!
That's a bit like only buying a lottery ticket once a year but getting the jackpot every time!
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But possession means sod all if you do nothing with it. Low possession doesn't mean you'll lose just as high possession doesn't mean you'll win.
A couple of years ago someone reported the stats for highest possession without winning the match in the CL. A former club of Pep's featured several times in the top ten. As did his future club (Napoli away).
Leicester use their limited possession well.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Haha I get your point but the majority of their outfield players in running positions (not defence) are relatively young:

Albrighton 26
Mahrez 25
Kante 25
Drinkwater 26
Schlupp 23

Although like you indicate its almost suspicious how much some of them have improved:

Simpson
Huth
Morgan
Fuchs
Albrighton
Vardy
Okazaki
and less so Kante, Mahrez and Drinkwater

The first 6 in particular have played nowhere near the level they have done for most of their careers and most are at ages where you wouldn't expect a dramatic improvement. Be interesting if the performances fall off a cliff next year thats for sure. Riyad Mahrez couldn't even get a game last year...now he's player of the year!
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cheers for clearing the age thing up...i bow down to your more accurate info..
Begs the question why a team like say arsenal, with all their young players, and very fast players,
1.dont ever win the league
2.always get injured.
3.dont seem to improve with age......

unlike the fortunate foxes.

re Morgan, saw a bit of MOTD last night and there was a moment when ,on the left hand side of leics midfield, the ball ran loose, and Morgan went into overdrive and sprinted to reach it first.
ive never seen an over 30 year old cover the ground so quickly.wow
 
Tricky_Trev said:
Yes it does work like that! Come on... Think about it.

We would have 6 more points, and they would have 6 less. So how many points would each team be on?

You can do it!

If we'd done the double on them, instead of them on us, we'd now be 8 points infront of them, not 4 behind. A 12 point swing. That's how important the games against closest rivals are, which makes our not beating anyone in the top 8 absolutely suicidal.
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You are mistaking that we lost to Spurs 4-1 though. we took the lead through a marginally offside KDB goal. Their equaliser was obviously miles off. We had the whole second half to put things right, we didn't and got battered. Same at home whilst they took the lead through a very dodgy penalty we in fact got ourselves back into that game only to lose it ourselves. Whilst yes there is dodgy decisions it doesn't automatically mean you then win the game.
 
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They have a system perfectly set up for the premier league , sit back and counter against the decent possession based teams...able to soak up the long ball bombardment against the cloggers due to their colossus centre halves. Their players don't have an ego so have no qualms about knocking it into row z , they hoof it from deep more than any team I can remember, good luck to them...its the lesser of any evil in my eyes

Will be interesting to see who they go for to expand their squad next year

Danny Simpson is a journeyman rag who can surely be replaced?

Okazaki is basically Paul Dickov, again they could do better there as well

When Forrest won the league they signed Trevor Francis, That would be like them signing Sterling in todays Market....
 
stony said:
Normally I'd derive a great deal of pleasure watching them fuck it up. However, considering we can no longer catch them and the only team who can is Spurs, I would rather suck out the arsehole of a scabby tramp than Spurs win the league. We would never hear the fucking end of it. Those cunts haven't won the league since 61 but they still have a superiority complex and think of themselves as one of the elite of Europe, instead of the 3rd or arguably 4th biggest club in London. They are a bunch of utter fucking cunts and their name was on the infamous Arsenal headed letter that tried to fuck us over via FFP. Fuck Spurs.
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This, totally agree.
 
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