Leicester pass statistics looks that of a relegation candidate

worst pass completion in the league... Shocking.

Bottom 3 in pass attempted .

Bottom 5 in possession.


Will this set up work in CL next season? They are in pot 1

They could do it like Monaco last season. Parking it every game.

I thought that'd be pretty obvious since longs balls have become kinda their trademark. No offence but imagine such a 'tasteless' team win the La Liga... Unbelievable. The level the Prem is at is awful. Basically it looks like, for example, United (a great team they once were) cannot get close to a bunch of average players and fckin part time waiters. This is mad. It's like Espanyol winning the Spanish leauge right now. I cannot even let that sink in, not even for a moment.

The stat that matters: 1st in points.

Please. We all know they get trashed in the CL once they meet non-english teams.

On Leicester's style of play, having the least possession and passing accuracy…

WENGER: "You cannot last like that. If they win a title like that, you have to say well done and respect. But in the Champions League, if they don't touch the ball, it will be difficult on Saturday. When you run after the ball on Wednesday against Barcelona and then turn up on Saturday away from home, it becomes more difficult.

"They will have to adapt, but I am not intelligent enough to see what will happen to them. I am just big enough to say well done to them."

Stats are overrated. Trophies on other hand are still dope.

RealGunner wrote:On Leicester's style of play, having the least possession and passing accuracy…

WENGER: "You cannot last like that. If they win a title like that, you have to say well done and respect. But in the Champions League, if they don't touch the ball, it will be difficult on Saturday. When you run after the ball on Wednesday against Barcelona and then turn up on Saturday away from home, it becomes more difficult.

"They will have to adapt, but I am not intelligent enough to see what will happen to them. I am just big enough to say well done to them."

Simeone, proving Wenger wrong since 2011.

Adit wrote:worst pass completion in the league... Shocking.

Bottom 3 in pass attempted .

Bottom 5 in possession.


Will this set up work in CL next season? They are in pot 1

They are a counter attacking team, how is this at all surprising?

rincon wrote:

RealGunner wrote:On Leicester's style of play, having the least possession and passing accuracy…

WENGER: "You cannot last like that. If they win a title like that, you have to say well done and respect. But in the Champions League, if they don't touch the ball, it will be difficult on Saturday. When you run after the ball on Wednesday against Barcelona and then turn up on Saturday away from home, it becomes more difficult.

"They will have to adapt, but I am not intelligent enough to see what will happen to them. I am just big enough to say well done to them."

Simeone, proving Wenger wrong since 2011.

Mourinho as well or any successful counter attacking team for that matter.

Wenger is an idiot.

I wasn't aware that passing stats we're representative of how good you are.

I defend Guardiola a lot here but his Barca team ruined the game.

Ranieri's sides typically are set up to counter-attack and that's down to his sides typically having shoestring budgets (Chelsea and Monaco being notable outliers). We saw this with Roma too years back. This shouldn't be a surprise.

rincon wrote:

RealGunner wrote:On Leicester's style of play, having the least possession and passing accuracy…

WENGER: "You cannot last like that. If they win a title like that, you have to say well done and respect. But in the Champions League, if they don't touch the ball, it will be difficult on Saturday. When you run after the ball on Wednesday against Barcelona and then turn up on Saturday away from home, it becomes more difficult.

"They will have to adapt, but I am not intelligent enough to see what will happen to them. I am just big enough to say well done to them."

Simeone, proving Wenger wrong since 2011.

Massive massive difference between Leicester and Atletico

Wenger is absolutely right though... People naming few counter attacking big teams. Did those teams had worst pass completion and least pass attempted in the league?

Atletico? Are you serious.. They are forced to play with the ball in majority of the games in La Liga except when they play the big boys so they actually developed a very good game when they are in possession.

Besides how many of those teams won the league with this hoof it up football which Leicester is playing? Counter attacking is one thing and hoof it up football is another one and later style is winning a damn league.

Leicester aren't playing exactly hoofball.

Art Morte wrote:Leicester aren't playing exactly hoofball.

Their no 1 tactic is to long ball to Vardy lol

Art Morte wrote:Leicester aren't playing exactly hoofball.

It's relative and statistically no other team has attempted hoof it to striker more than them.

The fact that it is so effective in PL is another matter which has to be studied. The question remains though, if they are so great at counter attacking that they became EPL champions then shouldn't we expect them to perform very good in CL too. We are not exactly talking about a mere top 4 finish. Anything less than a knock out stage entry will raise many questions.

Did someone actually report Adit

Anyway, possession stat isn't that big of deal. You can do little with the ball and do a whole lot of awesome with it. The pass attempts are worrying, well, should be a worry. Anyway, the least of LC's worries in my opinion as there is a title to be wrapped up.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I wasn't aware that passing stats we're representative of how good you are.

I defend Guardiola a lot here but his Barca team ruined the game.

It doesnt show the whole story but it still says alot

they'll get picked apart in cl beacuse they are not that good even if the win the title

Well this particular version of Leicester was built specifically for an EPL campaign, I'm sure they weren't even thinking about CL football at the beginning of this season or else they'd be better prepared for it.

I'm sure they know they're going to need to tweak themselves in order to prepare for CL football. It'll be interesting to see what they do in the summer.

That said, Ranieri has had mixed luck in the CL, but I don't think it'll be that bad. I think they might just do better than people think they will. the goal has to be to get out of the group stages at least.

Wenger has lost it no style is inherently better, it depends on the players at your disposal. Try to play possession with Drinkwater in midfield

He never claimed any style is better.

He claimed they can't go far playing like that, which is tantamount to saying that playing the other way is better. It's also patiently false as proven by plenty of teams vs Barça.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:He claimed they can't go far playing like that, which is tantamount to saying that playing the other way is better. It's also patiently false as proven by plenty of teams vs Barça.

He didn't say no team can go far playing like that. He was talking about Leicester who are an anomaly and shouldn't be compared to anyone else.

Bottom 3 in attempted passes with bottom 5 in possession just tells me they're twice as economical as everybody else with what little they attempt.

GOAT precision GOAT effectiveness long live the kings.