Crazy Stat Time!

[Blue ROI]

Leicester exit the Champions league at the same stage as Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

 

Teams that made the Champions league final in 7 of the last 9 years.

[Aus Fox]

Does that mean we are joint 5th in Europe? 

[RussianFox]

6 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Does that mean we are joint 5th in Europe? 

Why joint 5th? We lost 1-2 on aggregate, Barcelona lost 0-3, Bayern and Dortmund lost 3-6.

We are 5th, ahead of them all.

Edited 19 April 2017 by RussianFox

[Aus Fox]

5 minutes ago, RussianFox said:

Why joint 5th? We lost 1-2 on aggregate, Barcelona lost 0-3, Bayern and Dortmund lost 3-6.

We are 5th, ahead of them all.

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

[brucey]

6 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

sounds good, we could even have a 5th place 'mini champions league' trophy for our cabinet! Or even better, a trophy for each game played?

[Gary Eatfood]

18 minutes ago, brucey said:

sounds good, we could even have a 5th place 'mini champions league' trophy for our cabinet! Or even better, a trophy for each game played?

If Riyad gets his dream move to Barca we could be playing for the Riyad Mahrez trophy on an annual basis.

[urban.spaceman]

5 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

Let's make it happen - though given our exploits last summer we should perhaps make those neutral venues more exotic but better placed to aid our preparation for next season. I'm thinking the Ricoh Arena, Meadow Lane and Peterborough's ABAX stadium. 

[Aus Fox]

5 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Let's make it happen - though given our exploits last summer we should perhaps make those neutral venues more exotic but better placed to aid our preparation for next season. I'm thinking the Ricoh Arena, Meadow Lane and Peterborough's ABAX stadium. 

Bayern v Barcelona at Vale Park. Beautiful 

[kushiro]

Having scored twice at Palace last week we need to update the stats on our scoring hot streak in the league. We've now extended the run of scoring at least twice to seven games (Shakespeare's first 7 league games).  So - it's now more than 50 years since we had a longer run, in ANY division.

 

But to get an idea of just how good this run is, let's come at it from another angle:

 

The total number of goals we've scored in Shakespeare's first seven league games is 17. How does that compare with other managers' first seven games?

 

If you look at the 25 year history of the Premier League, there have been around 300 managers. And only THREE of them have made a better start, each with just one more goal than Shakespeare. And look who's sitting there joint top: 

 

 

Pep Guardiola               Man City    2017       18 goals

Claudio Ranieri           Chelsea     2000       18 goals 

Kenny Dalglish              Newcastle  1997      18 goals

 

Craig Shakespeare     Leicester   2017       17 goals

Manuel Pelligrini           Man City     2013       17 goals

Andre Villas-Boas         Chelsea      2011       17 goals

 

 

Claudio popping up like that really made me smile.

 

Remember his first game as Chelsea manager? This insanely entertaining game at Man U:

 

But let's get back to Shakespeare. You'd think some Daily Mail journalist might get on to our hot streak and put together an article like 'Can Leicester continue their amazing scoring run at Arsenal?', but it wouldn't fit the narrative, would it?. And anyway they're too busy filling their site with stuff like 'Depay and Lingard share a joke as United resume training'.

[Collymore]

When we play WBA next game, that'll be our 4th away game in the league in a row after playing Everton, Crystal Palace and Arsenal. 

 

Is it me or this quite a rare occurrence to go this many games without a home game?

[urban.spaceman]

Vardy's in a great run at the minute but this season he's scored 12 in the league so far, with 32 games before his and most recent.

 

By contrast, he scored 13 in his record breaking 11 game streak last season.

[Footballwipe]

On 26/04/2017 at 22:07, Collymore said:

When we play WBA next game, that'll be our 4th away game in the league in a row after playing Everton, Crystal Palace and Arsenal. 

 

Is it me or this quite a rare occurrence to go this many games without a home game?

It's an extremely rare occurrence, mainly for the fact the PL dictate it shouldn't happen!

 

"A team will never have more than two home or away matches in a row"

 

Save for the odd occasion for stadium reasons (Liverpool this season, West Ham next season)

[Marshall Cockney Fox]

On 2017-4-19 at 22:26, Gary Eatfood said:

If Riyad gets his dream move to Barca we could be playing for the Riyad Mahrez trophy on an annual basis.

He's never going to Barca. Not in a million years. The best players (i.e. Barca players) consistently influence games. Riyad, er...........? 

[Collymore]

Was yesterday Shinji's first ever assist? 

[st albans fox]

Just now, Collymore said:

Was yesterday Shinji's first ever assist? 

At his age, I doubt it ...............

[Collymore]

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

At his age, I doubt it ...............

For Leicester I meant

[Fox42]

18 minutes ago, Collymore said:

For Leicester I meant

He assisted himself for his goal at West Ham last season

[Jimothy]

51 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Was yesterday Shinji's first ever assist? 

Vardy's second v Liverpool at home last season. He scuffed a shot and it went straight to Vardy who tapped it in.

Edited 30 April 2017 by Facecloth

[Melbourne Fuchs]

8 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Vardy's second v Liverpool at home last season. He scuffed a shot and it went straight to Vardy who tapped it in.

 

He fell over while scuffing the shot for the assist. Legend!

[davieG]

5 - Craig Shakespeare is only the 4th manager to win his first 5 PL home games in charge, after Pellegrini, Eriksson and Ancelotti. Poetic.

4:57 PM - 6 May 2017

 

60 - Jamie Vardy has now been involved in more PL goals than any other @LCFC player (41 goals, 19 assists), one more than Muzzy Izzet. Fox.

4:52 PM - 6 May 2017

[Blue ROI]

5 league wins at home in a row.

 

If I'm right thats the first time we've won that many in the Premier League era and the first 5 top flight in a row since 1983/84.

Edited 6 May 2017 by Blue ROI

[Corky]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

5 - Craig Shakespeare is only the 4th manager to win his first 5 PL home games in charge, after Pellegrini, Eriksson and Ancelotti. Poetic.

4:57 PM - 6 May 2017

 

60 - Jamie Vardy has now been involved in more PL goals than any other @LCFC player (41 goals, 19 assists), one more than Muzzy Izzet. Fox.

4:52 PM - 6 May 2017

When you think that Muzzy was involved for 7 seasons whilst Vardy has had 3, even more impressive.

[murphy]

We now have more points in the 10 games under CS than we had with 25 games from CR.

[foxes_rule1978]

1 minute ago, murphy said:

We now have more points in the 10 games under CS than we had with 25 games from CR.

At the rate we are picking up points under Shakey, we would be on 77 points had we done so from the start

[davieG]

Mahrez created history during the Watford  game after becoming the first Algerian to reach 100 Premier League appearances