2019/2020 Premier League Discussion: Chapter II

Leicester, the only team alongside Liverpool and City with double digit GD. How long will it last before they find themselves hanging out to their real level of midtable.

Given how dross everyone else is at the moment, Leicester aren't going anywhere

Lex wrote:Can't recall the last time i saw double hat-tricks in a game before

Was, in fact, us lol

2 - Leicester have become only the second side in Premier League history to have two players score a hat-trick in the same game (Pérez and Vardy), after Arsenal in May 2003 - also against Southampton (Pennant and Pires). Double. pic.twitter.com/ddUo6dyMF2

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 25, 2019

atm Leicester are 2nd on the table, so it means they might be the new Leicester ( )

Helmer wrote:Leicester, the only team alongside Liverpool and City with double digit GD. How long will it last before they find themselves hanging out to their real level of midtable.

According to Understat, they're out-performing their xG by a whopping 11 goals. Obviously that's distorted by the 9-0 last night (Leciester's xG for that game was 4.38 which is still crazy even for great teams) but is a continuation of Leicester's finishing being at a very high level so far this season.

People are excited about them but in terms of chance creation, they're actually below Everton, Aston Villa, and even the team they just smashed 9-0. They've scored 25 goals off just 13.7 shots per game. To put that into perspective, Everton have had 13.4 shots per game and have scored just 8 goals.

Their defence is genuinely solid and that'll keep them within the Europa League spots if they keep it up, but their finishing is unsustainable and I suspect that'll prevent them from truly challenging the top four, barring another flukey season. They'll also be counting on Arsenal, United and Spurs continuing to be rubbish, which, while not impossible, is unlikely. You'd expect one of those three to sort themselves out eventually.

Imagine how hilarious it would be if Rodgers won the title with Lestah and we came second...

Sweet jesus, 0-9?! That's a lot, even with a red card.

oh never mind, I just saw the name of Southampton's manager, and now everything makes sense.

They thought he was the new Klopp just because hes austrian/german lool, oh how turns have tabled

how dumb are arsenal if they dont have a serious look at rodgers. since he came to LC only man shity and liverpool have won more points.

Controversial opinion maybe, but Leicester haven’t been weakened one bit by the loss of Harry Maguire, and Caglar Whatshisface has been surprisingly good for them. They even have money to spare now.

Myesyats wrote:They thought he was the new Klopp just because hes austrian/german lool, oh how turns have tabled

Except nobody thought this

Hans posted a bunch of videos in the other thread named "The New Klopp"

I have never claimed, and would never claim, he'd be the next Klopp.

I did call him the Austrian Simeone once somewhere on here though IIRC

On a nice and sunny day, nothing interesting has happened so far. Apart from few comments here on GL

Nice solo goal by Pulisic

Pulisic with a hattrick. Happy for the kid.

Maybe Frank is a far better coach than I initially thought...

Lampard is a very good coach and his young Chelsea team is genuinely likeable.
The club as a whole is still unlikeable, but the team makes it really hard to dislike them, Mount, Barkley, Tomori, Abraham, Pulisic, Loftus-Cheek, Hudson-Odoi, Reece James, Christensen, also Rüdiger and Zouma

Very young, very likeable team

Lampard has all the basics right. A set system where the players know what he is asking them to do. A good compact pressing system and young hungry players wanting to prove themselves. He is also a great motivator.

His real challenge will be in the upcoming years.

RealGunner wrote:Lampard has all the basics right. A set system where the players know what he is asking them to do. A good compact pressing system and young hungry players wanting to prove themselves. He is also a great motivator.

His real challenge will be in the upcoming years.

This is on point.

But you're as good as your last game so 10 fixtures later he may be on the verge of a sack.

Derby County are also doing worse since Lampard left, maybe he's the next Guardiola Allardyce

Lampard will shine at Chelsea and even win EPL once as every manager at Chelsea seems to have that luck specially when bald Fraud leaves ManCity. But eventually will get sacked after 10 games in one of the seasons.

Or he will get sacked without winning anything and simply join Sky.

At the moment both are equally possible.

Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal, Man United all in action shortly

Spurs 1-0 up already