With Chelsea, Everton, Arsenal, Tottenham, Man City (twice) and Liverpool (twice) all to be played between now and the end of February, many may predict Ranieri’s honeymoon period ending sooner rather than later.
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Leicester are the 33rd team in Premier League history to reach 32 points or more from their first 15 games, and only one of those sides failed to finish in the top four come May. Meanwhile, it was a different Leicester players who stepped up in a big way.
Leicester’s rise isn’t the only impressive story early on this season as Bournemouth has exceeded expectations as well. Long gone are the days where top sides would show up against of a “lesser team” and walk away with three easy points.
The Italian manager took charge of the club at the beginning of the season to a muted response from fans and pundits but has changed very little, from Nigel Pearson’s reign last season. But if their recent form is any indication, don’t put it past them to put together another fantastic run of wins.
“For a small club historically like Leicester City, they have a challenge”. Watford won over Norwich 2-0, while Southampton and Aston Villa played to a 1-1 draw. Peter was saying, at the moment, Leicester are the best team in the league, without a doubt.
That, however, came in a 42-game season as Newcastle eventually finished sixth in 1994-95 having reached 33 points by late November.
Manchester City may have been missing Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure, but a 2-0 victory for Stoke was more than deserved. With Shaqiri providing the ball in his best performance of the season up to this point, Arnautovic was terrorizing City’s backline and had numerous chances to claim his hat trick.
“They (Leicester) could win the league the way they are playing at the moment and they have goals in their team”.
For those who haven’t watched the Stoke game or even the highlights against City, the insane Austrian could’ve easily scored one or two more goals had he been more decisive, capitalizing on his two shots on target with two goals that saw him earn 3 bonus points for a total of 16 Fpl points.
The former non-league striker beat Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record for scoring in consecutive games in the Premier League by netting in 11 successive matches.
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The Welshman brought back memories of his 2013/2014 incredible season where he managed 10 goals and 9 assists. His performance helped him edge out Vardy, Glenn Murray and Olivier Giroud for the second-best fantasy score among Premier League forwards from this past weekend.
