Crazy Stat Time!

[HankMarvin]

Are Maddison’s chances created inflated by his set piece deliveries this weekend

[urban.spaceman]

4 hours ago, Foxxed said:

I'm still surprised we're in the Premier League.

This. 

[Out Foxed]

6 hours ago, brucey said:

Yes.

 

Both top tacklers.

Both incredibly humble, nice guys.

One was never keen to join us in the first place, and fcked off at the first opportunity, calling us “FC Leicester”. The other openly denied rumours about leaving us for Man U, and signed an extended contract, the longest one we’ve ever given out, and loves it so much here that he’s started a course at the local uni.

 

I know which one I prefer 

Well said

[st albans fox]

7 hours ago, brucey said:

Yes.

 

Both top tacklers.

Both incredibly humble, nice guys.

One was never keen to join us in the first place, and fcked off at the first opportunity, calling us “FC Leicester”. The other openly denied rumours about leaving us for Man U, and signed an extended contract, the longest one we’ve ever given out, and loves it so much here that he’s started a course at the local uni.

 

I know which one I prefer 

 

1 hour ago, Out Foxed said:

Well said

that’s not a football judgement ...... if it weren’t for the charisma of conte, NG would likely have stayed another season ..

[Grebfromgrebland]

7 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Are Maddison’s chances created inflated by his set piece deliveries this weekend

Free kicks don't count......

[Koke]

8 hours ago, brucey said:

Yes.

 

Both top tacklers.

Both incredibly humble, nice guys.

One was never keen to join us in the first place, and fcked off at the first opportunity, calling us “FC Leicester”. The other openly denied rumours about leaving us for Man U, and signed an extended contract, the longest one we’ve ever given out, and loves it so much here that he’s started a course at the local uni.

 

I know which one I prefer 

 

FC Leicester was funny though. 

 

Kante is better and he has reached a much higher peak than Ndidi. Kante is better in most aspects of the game than Ndidi. Influential for Chelsea. Influential fir France. Only thing Wilf has over him is age and height.

 

You will change your tune when Man Utd  or Chelsea comes in for Ndidi and he fecks off like Kante did.

[brucey]

7 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

FC Leicester was funny though. 

 

Kante is better and he has reached a much higher peak than Ndidi. Kante is better in most aspects of the game than Ndidi. Influential for Chelsea. Influential fir France. Only thing Wilf has over him is age and height.

 

You will change your tune when Man Utd  or Chelsea comes in for Ndidi and he fecks off like Kante did.

Wilf is as influential for us now as Kante is for those other teams. France is better than Nigeria so isn't directly comparable. Chelsea haven't exactly been struggling the past month with Kante out injured, anyway. If anything they've done better. 

 

Wilf's the least likely of our talented kids to leave, and he'll be here for years to come. Either way he's already been here way longer than Kante did.

[Raw Dykes]

12 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

I realised on Saturday after Soyuncu's goal, that all but 1(Evans) of the starting outfield team have scored a premier league goal this season. After just 11 games and we have a 10 goal striker!!  

 

That's unbelievable really, if Evans had just sorted his footing out against Southampton we would have had all of the outfield. Thats the sign of a proper team, everyone is chipping in.

Evans came very close from the corner that led directly to the corner that Cags scored from, as well.

 

Reading through the last few pages has slightly brought home how good this team is. To be honest, I still don't think the title win has really sunk in for me. I know it happened, but I still don't really feel like I believe it was real. I used to play a lot of FM, and I'd get used to my FM team being miles better than the real-life Leicester. I keep thinking I'm confusing the two. This team is so good that I feel like I'm slightly losing my grip on reality. Absolutely worth it, though.

[foxile5]

24 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

FC Leicester was funny though. 

 

Kante is better and he has reached a much higher peak than Ndidi. Kante is better in most aspects of the game than Ndidi. Influential for Chelsea. Influential fir France. Only thing Wilf has over him is age and height.

 

You will change your tune when Man Utd  or Chelsea comes in for Ndidi and he fecks off like Kante did.

Kanté is better. Wilf has the potential to be as good, though. It just depends if he can generate as big an engine as Kanté has. Plenty of time. 

 

I'm not certain i found FC Leicester that funny. Kanté has built a reputation of this lovable, humble bloke. How come we just happen to be the only thing he dumps on. Not precisely humble the way he left us. 

[Foxxed]

Kante's the better player for me. Ndidi is slowly approaching Leicester Kante levels. Kante is now much more.

 

I don't care that he wanted to leave or that he said FC Leicester. He was the engine that won us the league.

[Nod.E]

13 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I'm going to go there...

 

Better than Kanté?

It's difficult to compare, I understand the comparisons but their styles are very different, and have/had different roles at Leicester.

 

Kante in a 2 was responsible for getting the ball back and, crucially, starting attacks, which he was very good at. N'didi struggled last season when his role was closer to that.

 

N'didi this season sits behind two creative powerhouses in Tielemans and Maddison, allowing him to focus primarily on ball winning, which he is ridiculously good at.

 

I think you could probably make a good case for saying N'didi is more effective in his role than Kante was. That's not to discredit Kante, N'didi at present is just a joke. The way we press teams means that they are usually in such a rush to get the ball from defence in to midfield, that it really highlights the impact of N'didi. They finally break out from our front line and he's just there, every single time. It must be so demoralising to play against.

 

Ultimately Kante is the better footballer of the two in terms of all round ability, but I don't think there is a better player in the world right now at doing what N'didi does for us.

 

[Les-TA-Jon]

As @Nod.E says you have to remember their roles are different. People forget that Kante wasn't a defensive midfielder for us. He was a box to box player in a middle 2, as part of a flat 4 midfield. 

 

Whereas Ndidi plays very much as a holding midfielder protecting the back four and playing sweeper to cover the fullbacks when they've gone forward

[Foxymcoxy]

Kante has more in the locker but they are at least equal in their best traits I.e ball winning. I'd never seen a player so good at that until Kante came here but unbelievably we found someone else just as good to replace him.

[ARM1968]

Ndidi is ours. Therefore he is way better than Kante. Enough said. Grateful to Kante for what he gave us. 

[HankMarvin]

People also forget the age differences when comparing them both 

 

Ndidi no where near his prime 

[Lambert09]

If Kante was in this team we wouldnt lose a game. 

[Koke]

Very impressive. Out of those 36 shots we have faced 8 was by Liverpool and 5 by Chelsea. Both away games as well.

 

 

[urban.spaceman]

26 minutes ago, Koke said:

Very impressive. Out of those 36 shots we have faced 8 was by Liverpool and 5 by Chelsea. Both away games as well.

 

There was something fascinating about the attitudes of some Scousers after Mane's dive - apparently because they'd had so many shots on target that meant they'd deserved to win the game and therefore the dive was immaterial. Surely if they were so wasteful with possession and chances, or if we were so good defensively, that means they weren't really good enough to win the game? The fact that they had to rely on the most absurdest decisions spoke volumes.

Edited 5 November 2019 by urban.spaceman

[Shane]

No surprise Vardy ranks top of the goal conversion charts. Interestingly, Perez is 10th best in the league.

 

Edited 5 November 2019 by Shane

[StriderHiryu]

Current “power” rankings which essentially indicate player form. Just look at how many Foxes there are!

 

 

This is absolutely absurd... I’ve never seen a team have so many players in the top 10 which shows not only that we are a good team but that it’s a real team effort. 

 

The only bad news is that Pulisic is number one and I famously called him “the American Albrighton” earlier in the season. Whoops! 

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Current “power” rankings which essentially indicate player form. Just look at how many Foxes there are!

 

 

This is absolutely absurd... I’ve never seen a team have so many players in the top 10 which shows not only that we are a good team but that it’s a real team effort. 

 

The only bad news is that Pulisic is number one and I famously called him “the American Albrighton” earlier in the season. Whoops! 

Chilwell our second best player at the moment? 

 

I'm not knocking him, he's doing fine, but second best, with Soyuncu, Pereira, Tielemans and Ndidi doing so well?

 

Plus no Evans.

 

Whilst nice to see, not sure they're anywhere near accurate.

[Wymsey]

Had to Google Aaron Ramsdale, admittedly.

[Foxymcoxy]

15 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Chilwell our second best player at the moment? 

 

I'm not knocking him, he's doing fine, but second best, with Soyuncu, Pereira, Tielemans and Ndidi doing so well?

 

Plus no Evans.

 

Whilst nice to see, not sure they're anywhere near accurate.

It will be weighted towards recent performances and Chilwell v Southampton was quite the game.

[FoxFossil]

So. What do you want for Christmas?

By 14th December we could have hit 40 points. Earliest avoidance of relegation ever?

Then 18th Dec through to EFL semi after thrashing Everton.

Then 21st Dec beat Man. City to go second.

Then 26th Dec beat Liverpool to go top.

Go on Santa, create a few more Crazy Stats for us.

[brucey]