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Crazy Stat Time!

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davieG

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  • Leicester City have lost nine of their past 11 Premier League matches against Manchester City, including the past three.

  • Manchester City have won their past three away Premier League games against Leicester without conceding a goal.

  • Since Pep Guardiola took charge of Manchester City in 2016-17, no side has scored more Premier League goals against his side than the Foxes (17).

  • Riyad Mahrez has scored in each of the past three seasons against his former side Leicester (three goals).

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2 hours ago, davieG said:

  • Leicester City have lost nine of their past 11 Premier League matches against Manchester City, including the past three.

  • Manchester City have won their past three away Premier League games against Leicester without conceding a goal.

  • Since Pep Guardiola took charge of Manchester City in 2016-17, no side has scored more Premier League goals against his side than the Foxes (17).

  • Riyad Mahrez has scored in each of the past three seasons against his former side Leicester (three goals).

Mahrez will probably score a penalty 

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5 hours ago, davieG said:

  • Leicester City have lost nine of their past 11 Premier League matches against Manchester City, including the past three.

  • Manchester City have won their past three away Premier League games against Leicester without conceding a goal.

  • Since Pep Guardiola took charge of Manchester City in 2016-17, no side has scored more Premier League goals against his side than the Foxes (17).

  • Riyad Mahrez has scored in each of the past three seasons against his former side Leicester (three goals).

Thought we had a better record than that against them tbh. 

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1 hour ago, iancognito said:

and 10 out of 33 in his career

That's a really poor record isn't it? 

 

Some have been high profile. 

 

He's such a great player though. I can see the temptation as a manager to think that his finishing is so good he must be mustard from 12 yards. 

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22 hours ago, foxile5 said:

That's a really poor record isn't it? 

 

Some have been high profile. 

 

He's such a great player though. I can see the temptation as a manager to think that his finishing is so good he must be mustard from 12 yards. 

I remember him missing in the title season, cost us a couple of points at Villa, his run ups - even when he scored - just looked unconvincing

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33 minutes ago, davieG said:

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Good to see it in the stats. Soumare still gets a lot of criticism on here, but he's a much improved player who is really trying, something which I criticised him for last season. Will be interesting to see how he gets on with the movement and attacking intent of Man City.

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A few stats in this Merc Report - https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-man-city-wolves-clinical-7757622?fbclid=IwAR1QtfrEukJ98SL5Ne8XXTDgqZLSRDdor36vgz-G9rD5_MmZaQ4ViUzbNmQ

 

What everybody got wrong about Leicester City – and why it matters ahead of Man City showdown
A deeper dive into the numbers behind Leicester City's victory over Wolves last weekend and why a performance that was described as clinical was arguably anything but


ByJordan Blackwell
13:30, 28 OCT 2022

 

When a team scores four goals from five shots, they have been clinical. Certainly, that was the word being used by Match of the Day pundits, in the newspaper columns, and on social media after Leicester City’s win at Wolves.

But it was not a word used by manager Brendan Rodgers. And he will think that’s for good reason, especially with Manchester City coming to town.

In the aftermath of Sunday’s victory, he said: “We can be better in the final third of the pitch. We made the wrong decisions at times where we can conserve the ball better or move it better.”

 

A few more days to mull it over did not change his mind. Rodgers said in his pre-match press conference for this weekend’s game: “I think we can create more. There are elements to our game where we can be much better in the final third with the ball.

“We lose it too often in the final third of the pitch which means we can’t sustain attacks. But whenever we are up there and we play with that quality, we’ve shown we can score goals.”

A deeper dive into the numbers and it’s clear to see why Rodgers would take this stance in spite of his team scoring four. Because, actually, it was one of City’s least clinical performances of the season.

While their finishing was ruthless, what they did not do very well was turn attacking pressure into shots at goal. At Wolves, City had 20 touches inside the box, from which they mustered four shots from inside the penalty area. That is their worst ratio in any Premier League game this season.

Furthermore, they had 99 touches in the final third at Molineux and a total of five shots. Only in the home games against Southampton and Leeds did they have a lower rate of converting attacks into attempts at goal.

The eye test tells us the same too. There were moments, particularly during their dominant spell in the first half following the second goal, where they were cutting through Wolves with ease and winning the ball back high up the pitch thanks to Patson Daka and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s effective pressing. But they weren’t testing Jose Sa.

A couple of those were near misses, like when Youri Tielemans slid across the box to nearly convert Dewsbury-Hall’s cross, but on other occasions, they played poor passes around the area, made the wrong decisions, or slowed the game down too much, allowing the Wolves defenders to plug the gap. Rodgers wasn’t being greedy when he said his side could have had more goals.

It’s a particularly important message ahead of this weekend. When playing against Man City, there are so few opportunities with the ball that Rodgers’ men cannot afford to waste promising attacks. In last season’s two fixtures against Pep Guardiola’s side, Leicester had their second-lowest and fourth-lowest tallies of touches inside the final third.

Knowing opportunities will be few and far between, they must make the most of any move into Man City’s defensive third. The last time they faced them, last Boxing Day, they did that.

James Maddison, Ademola Lookman, and Kelechi Iheanacho were in excellent form at the top end of the pitch, and while City only had 56 touches in the final third, they had 14 shots overall, a total of 25 per cent. In comparison, their best record this season was against Nottingham Forest, when 11 per cent of their final-third touches were shots.

Further, they had 10 shots from 17 touches inside Man City’s box, coming in at 59 per cent. Again, that outstrips anything they have achieved this season.

Of course, their defensive woes, particularly from set-pieces, cost them in the match, and so despite scoring three goals, they still lost heavily. But if they can marry their recent defensive improvements with the clinical football they showed last Boxing Day, they may have a chance of getting a surprise result.

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The media here in Japan are going crazy about Kazuyoshi Miura scoring at the age of 55 years and 246 days in the equivalent of League Two, breaking the all time record for professional football anywhere in the world. Now there's a target for Shinji.

 

That gives me a chance to post a couple of updates. 

 

You might have missed it at the tail end of the Life Begins At 30 thread, but Leicester City players actually hold all the records in that category.

 

1)  Most goals in the Premier League after turning 30 - Jamie Vardy (100)

 

2) Most goals in the top flight after turning 30 - Arthur Chandler (189)

 

3) Most goals in all four divisions after turning 30 - Arthur Rowley (216) - for Leicester and Shrewsbury.

 

Quite an extraordinary 'triple crown'.

 

Also, if you haven't seen it, there's a thread over on the general football section about Haaland and Dixie Dean that has a lot of Leicester City content too, looking at many different aspects of our historic 1927/28 season (when Dean scored 60 goals).  Here's a short cut:

 

 

 

 

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