somebody has to talk about the elephant in the room...
how did they become so good,so fast?
pic very related
The other big English teams are restructuring or collapsing right now, apart from Arsenal who just come 4th.
Leicester have extremely good scouting that's got them an amazing team for fuck all that's in extremely good form together.
They have a manager who's actually decent but slipped under the radar.
The style of football that Leicester play is extremely effective against most of the football that is dominating the premier league.
Because they don't give a fuck. They're literally using FIFA 16 tactics and it's working IRL.
The "English "Premiere" League is a joke, anyone can win there and all matches are literally flipping the coin
Leicester are just luckier than other clubs
Notice how the current champion (Chelsea) is amongst the worst clubs this season and they didn't sell a single key player and they also have the same manager as last season
>>65489657
Maybe Leicester were never that bad? Their amazing winning run started last season and coincided with the arrival of Robert Huth. Sure, they played a different system back then but large parts of the team remained the same.
It also helped that nobody took them seriously, hell, even now people don't take them seriously, because why else would Man Shitty allow their fullbacks to go on the overlap against Leicester?
>>65492113
Fuck Argentina, get over it, you're never getting those islands back
>>65492113
Betcha River Plate and Boca Juniors would get relegated from the Championship
>>65492113
this white nigga is correct
lelpl has literally u-12 youth teams tactics. players don't pass but literally shoot and all 22 faggots run after it until someone scores by mistake.
>>65493364
>Tevez wont shit all over championship teams
Lol
>buyernsliga
4-4-2
They don't use all this meme 3-5-2 bs
>tfw they might win the pl before liverpool, spurs, everton do
wew lads
It's because pretty much every manager in the world builds a team like its fucking FIFA Ultimate Team and buys the best and most expensive players at each position without giving though to team chemistry or how each player will complement each other, instead just building the "best" squads on paper. Which obviously doesn't work because you have competing personalities and big stars used to being the center of attention who are now relegated to playing smaller parts and not getting the ball enough. Shit like that only works on national teams where the guys are united behind a commonality and only have to play a few games a year with each other.
Leicester don't have any big stars destroying the clubhouse or stepping on each others toes or causing rifts with the management, they are only concentrating on playing good football and they are thriving in the underdog role.
It's fucking stupid, everyone just spends millions of dollars on the biggest stars, trying to build dream teams or Galacticos or whatever and it always falls flat. Also, these big clubs go through managers every fucking year which leads to zero continuity and confused players. Literal retards must be running these clubs.
>>65494960
still got more teams in the CL than the buyernliga, strange
Meme magic
Also they have a GOAT crest
>>65491831
Should've delved into why their tactics are so effective. In a sense, there are two Leicester gameplans from what I've seen. First of all, they are very solid in the back, and while they aren't great in possession from the back 4 they move the ball quick up to their more dangerous players. Against the higher level of possession teams they counter extremely effectively and against mid to bottom they are more balanced (but since Mahrez is a God and Vardy is finishing well, they win).
Oddly enough, the only team they don't match up well against of the top 4 is perennial 4th placed Arsenal, because (minus Mertesacker) Arsenal are pace attackers and defenders with good possession.
Strange League, desu.
>>65489657
They're not good. The rest of the league is just shit. Worst season of all time
They are currently playing in one competition. Fitness is their key.
>>65495655
Outside of the usual big 4 and City, the league is the best it has ever been.
>worst season of all time
It would be easily the best if Leicester manage to win. I really don't get why some people want to maintain the status quo instead of having other teams break into the top 4. It gets boring as fuck.
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>>65492249
>back
Implying they ever held them
literally all the stars aligned to make this happen
-Leicester suddenly have two of the top 10 players in the PL this year
-Chelsea and Liverpool regressing mightily from last year
-Arsenal and Man City wracked by key injuries
-Tottenham, as always, not QUITE good enough to win it all
the best part is that the new TV deal the PL has means Leicester won't immediately sell off all their best players after this miracle run, so we'll get another year or two of the Mahrez and Vardy show
2 strikers.
Fuck this lone striker bs that most clubs seem to enjoy using now. Unless your wingers are top class it doesn't work.
>>65498094
Return of the 4-4-2 & the subsequently 4-3-3 desu.
>>65498094
>mfw formation tactics come full-circle back to the good old 4-4-2 over the next couple syears
>>65498034
>-Chelsea and Liverpool regressing mightily from last year
Liverpool were just as shit last season
>>65498034
>Arsenal
>Wracked by key injuries
Not really. Arsenal have no real excuse.
Congratulations to those boys.
mass quantities of PEDs?
>>65489657
That is no way to speak about your mother.
>>65498191
Injured sanchez, injured coquelin and injured cazorla.
Thats just three of their long term injuries this season, all in key players.
it started with an exceptional run of form of their strikers on the wave of the great escape last season
then Ranieri experience and input started to show, and they became a much more stable and organized side
they have a good chance to win the league imo
>>65491831
who are you referring to as restructuring?
no big team has sold big players or changed manager over the summer, all they did was buying more players
not really an excuse for performing so shitty
>>65498108
4231 is just an hipster 442 desu
>>65495614
Let's not forget about their pressing game. Yes, they like to sit deep in their own half, but they also focus on quickly winning the ball back in the opponent's half.
That's why Kante is so immensely important for them, his workrate, aerial ability and tackling are amongst the best in the entire league. Him and Danny Drinkwater are absolutely immense. And let's not forget about their defensive contributions, Kante often moves out to the wings to assist the FBs and wingers in defence, one of the reasons why high crosses just don't work against Leicester (the other would be Huth).
>>65498650
Football formations don't even convey that much information, many teams have a completely different shape when attacking and defending. A 4-2-3-1 can turn into a 3-1-3-3 in buildup play, by dropping a holding midfielder deeper, moving up the fullbacks and advancing with the wingers. When pressing the 4-2-3-1 often transforms into a 4-4-2.
>>65497916
It's only bandwagoners and villa fans who are complaining about this season. Everyone else knows it's been brilliant and a show of a step up in quality
>>65489657
They do as much running as drugged-up Spain did before Fuentes got busted.
Average-at-best players like Drinkwater turned out to be strong responders to the dose Ranieri's doc is peddling.
>>65495175
3-5-2 was invented to counter 4-4-2. It'll be the goat formation next season.
>>65489657
they've had zero injuries this season which has helped a lot because their squad is thin as fuck
too bad they lost their scouts to arsenal
>>65499620
won't matter, arsenal's organization is such a mess that it will ruin any quality they had
>>65489657
No one knows how desu
Not even Ranieri
>>65494960
The epl is way better than the bayern feeder league
>>65499722
On the tactical level I'd say that Bundesliga teams are more formidable. Their pressing game and movement off the ball is something you don't really see in English football.
At the same time they don't offer much flair and moments of individual brilliance. The focus is on organization, shape and the collective instead of technical skill.
I'd say that most top clubs in Germany (Bayern, Dortmund, >Schalke, 'Gladbach, ...) could match English sides.
>>65499800
german clubs mostly get btfo by epl teams, with the exception of Bayern of course
>>65499800
You say that forgetting that Wolfsburg, gladbach and bayern all got beaten by English clubs in the CL this season
>>65499849
>Wolfsburg
lost a game against ManU, won a game, forcing United into the EL
>Gladbach
lost both games against Man City, but they were in insanely poor form back then. They went on a 5 game loosing streak in the league at this season's beginning.
>Bayern
Beaten by Arsenal away, utterly humiliated them at home
I never said that German clubs were superior, I said that they could match the level of English clubs and judging from this year's CL they can do that.
They're training less than other teams.
http://www.90min.com/posts/2938726-claudio-ranieri-reveals-how-he-made-a-title-challenging-team-out-of-leicester-city
>>65499936
>wolfsburg did it on their own
it was more PSV desu
>>65499936
If you look at the overall record of bundes clubs against epl clubs in the champions league in the last 10 years or so it's pretty poor, even more so if you take Bayern out of the equation
>>65499972
How many goals did Moyes stick past neverkusan?
>>65499936
They humiliated them in London too. Freak result that Arsenal won that game
A perfect storm of top form from several players and the EPL isn't what it was just a few years ago.
>>65500211
8 wasn't it? lel
There is no explanation everyone can interpret something else and it is all true as long as they win. Somehow they are all in the form of their life at the same time.
>>65492113
Cambiasso effect
>>65489657
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Rigged games, penalties, intentional stat padding for Vardy etc.
>>65510038
ABL is mental damage
>>65499800
I'll agree to that and I'll also say that matches in Germany are way more fun than any I have been to in England or Spain.
>>65495472
This guy gets it. The players actually like each other and play for each other.
>>65494960
>>65492113
These wankers have no idea
ocenite moju devojku
>>65510038
You forgot your "Hope they all die in a plane crash," Serbian ABL
>>65510109
What does ABL mean?
>>65489657
I'm inclined to say PEDs
>>65510758
Anyone But Leicester
>>65510038
>le salty serbian trying to get himself over
>>65510038
getting bored of you now tbqh
>>65510881
>>65498514
>>65499533
>>65509777
>get BTFO
>must be drugs la
Great new meme guys. Just makes you look bitter.
>>65510758
Australians bandwagoning London
>>65494960
>white
Uhhhh huh
These digits say otherwise
>leicester wins the league
>turns out they were all doped up to the eyeballs
I would literally stop following the football
>>65492113
kill higuain
>>65489657
Leicester is all about Ranieri outsmarting eplel simpletons
Italian doping and match fixin. The english were totally unprepared.
>>65511111
Pents confirm a murder inc
>>65511059
>Leicester win the league
>title revoked for having players with third party contracts
>people don't realise that Leicester aren't nearly as small a club as the current narrative suggests
>>65492152
Pellegrini is a shit coach with no tactical awareness and would even overlap his fullbacks and play two strikers at the camp nou thinking that's the best way to win
Lester v Broncos
who wins, /sp/?
>>65513192
Lester City or Lester Tigers?
>>65511754
>Decade long absence from the Premier League
>Biggest signing was a player they loaned to relegation bound Hoffenheim
>Thai billionaire owner
Still fairly small club shenanigans. Does it have to be FC United of Manchester to be small enough for you?
PEDs aren't even helpful in soccer. Roiding up and runni g faster won't make you a better dribbler, shooter, or passer.
>>65495472
>>65495614
I mean these explanations are not that detailed, but have to say well done to USA anons for knowing Leicester's games.
>>65499611
Couldn't be more wrong. Leicester's squad is THICK, have one of the strongest benches in the league. They've chosen to tap in to the youth system with Chilwell because he's quality unlike United, Liverpool, Everton, Man City who have had too because of a lack of player.
Leicester have also been without Matty James all season, and Jeff Schlupp has been out for months, Vardy's played injured over christmas, and Drinkwater's missed a few from injury.
>>65513545
PED's definitely help endurance, though. You can run or exercise faster or longer and have better stamina on PED's, which is essential to being good at soccer because nobody wants a player who is exhausted after running around for 60 minutes. That's why cyclists and runners like Lance Armstrong and Olympic guys use roids. Super helpful. Guarantee some guys are juicing in FIFA.
>be small club
>hire a respectable foreign good coach
>work and motivate everyday
>get the best of literally whos and make them attack/defend together
pretty much every non-plastic club does it
Why is everyone saying they play 4-4-2 when they play a form of 4-4-1-1, which was SAF's title winning formation season after season.
Nothing shocking there. They're literally the new Manchester united in terms of how they play. I was watching an old man U vs arsenal game the other day on sky sports and they played exactly the same as Leicester are playing now.
Lester are literally reinventing the game as we speak. What a time to be alive. It's the Nottingham Forest of our generation, we'll tell about this to our grandkids desu
>>65517570
We can also tell them the grand tale of how Rooney broke the England goalscorer record.
>>65489657
Anyone else think their badge is shit? They should have kept pic related from Gary Lineker's day and they would have the best badge in the league
>>65513545
All those things are easier to do well when you're not tired.
>>65513557
>Jeff Schlupp has been out for months
Lucky Leicester
>>65515703
who plays the main striker and the support striker in leicester 4-4-1-1? is it shinji or vardy
>>65517614
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>>65492113
spot on, eplel is like women tennis
literally fc niggerdicks is top of the table, and the top scorer is some crooked second division wooden legged man
messi would score 100 goals a season there
>>65513818
This desu. Spurs and West Ham are basically doing the same thing.
>>65517995
Reminder that this man was one of La Liga's top scorers
>>65511111
checked
>>65517995
Yeah like all your other great players that have broken the Premier League. See: Nicolas 'La liga team of the year' Shitamendi, Loldado, Hierro going straight from Real to Bolton, >Torres
>>65517995
spics are the worst posters on this board I swear
>>65517935
Okazaki plays deeper when Leicester attack
>>65489657
>how did they become so good,so fast?
every one else became shit even faster
>>65518057
>spurs
>west ham
>small clubs
no
>>65518238
>shitamendi "meme team of the year"
literally who
>loldado
was ok until eplel ruinied him
>hierro
he angered the mad sheik florentino and was excommunicated like casillas
>torres
he was already >torres here, also, didn't he actually broke some record there? pretty sure i read it somewhere
>>65518252
u sware on ye mum? deal with it britpig
>>65517995
>being this mad this sll doesn't have any kind of fun
>>65518238
Meanwhile Ozil is unironically considered world class in the PL and le tactical insight ipad man is setting La Liga alight with his tactical genious.
>>65517614
That literally looks disgusting.
Looks more life a fucking car emblem.
If they revert back to that badge, I'll be the first to jump off the band wagon.
>>65492078
>IS HE MAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxmiGHaw1ag
>>65495472
What I don't get is the constant firing of managers. What makes clubs think that adjusting to a whole new leadership style on that fast of a turn around is gonna work? It just seems soulless to the point that I could see guy's just tuning it out because they know if they're even still around in 2 years there will be an entirely different manager.
The poster above is a fag
>>65522117
>british man mad over his hairline
>british man
>black
nah
>>65522584
Ass: Alberto Barbosa
>>65522512
Would You sacked Neville?
Disciplined counterattacking, other big teams got completely obsessed with buying great expensive players, only Tottenham bothered to build an solid team
>>65492113
You do realize that it's better for the sport and fans in general if it's not just 2 or 3 teams fighting for the championship every year, right?
I watch la liga to see some good footbal from Barca and Real but the games have no value because everyone knows how the championship is going to end.
It's supposed to be a 20 teams championship not 2
>>65495472
Leicester just brought in Raneri this season too. Manager changes often work.
Freak signings like Mahrez, Lewandowski etc are also extremely rare. Leicester just got extremely lucky and then worked their asses off to make good of that luck. Something similar happened with Liverpool two seasons ago. They got luck with Sturridge not being broken, Suarez becoming GOAT, Gerrard rolling back the years.but they slipped up.
Can Leicester see it through?
>>65517614
The fox head and the tudor rose looks iconic.
OP's is the 2001-2008 version anyway. The post 2009 one looks cleaner.
They're no Atletico
>>65517995
>messi would score 100 goals a season there
No he wouldn't, the potato farmer defenders in the rest of la liga are absolutely pathetic. Even Valencia's defense is below anything I've seen in the EPL or Italy.
>>65498650
Not the awesome 4-3-2-1 by Nottingham Forest?
>>65524734
>You do realize that it's better for the sport and fans in general if it's not just 2 or 3 teams fighting for the championship every year, right?
this, la liga is boring, they should just put Barca and Real play like 15 games and that's it, the winner can get everything from the spanish tournaments.
>>65523501
It failed against Arsenal (5-2) and Liverpool (3-1).
>>65499800
Not really. The Bundesliga clubs tend to get crushed by the English clubs. Look at the few years before this season to see teams like Leverkusen, Schalke, and Gladbach get destroyed by Chelsea, United, and City. Arsenal have (deservedly or undeservedly) gotten unlucky with facing both Dortmund and Bayern yet have stood their ground in either the away or return fixture, managing a convincing results.
Chelsea have crushed both Schalke and Leverkusen, and beat Bayern in their own home in 2012 as well as in 2005 under Mourinho. United crushed Leverkusen with >Moyes, knocked out Schalke in 2011, and have beaten Bayern a few times, most memorably in 1999.
City are a joke, so they are the outlier, losing to Bayern and Dortmund embarassingly while beating them unconvincingly.
It's like the English-German rivalry goes to the English in club tournaments but goes to the Germans internationally.
>>65531769
But those aren't the best teams in the bundesliga, and you're comparing them to the best teams in the eplel
Memester Shitty will get found out so hard in the CL next season. Literally easiest seeder if they win the PL.
What I want to know is why isn't it pronounced Lye-chester?
>>65532066
because english people are inbred illiterates
>>65532066
where the fuck do you even get 'chester' from?
>American education
>>65532080
reminder the average american IQ is in double figures.
>>65517995
messi would struggle more than pedro in the EPL
>>65531015
>Liverpool (3-1)
What the fuck are you talking about?
>>65498034
I would argue Leicester actually have at least three of the top 10 players in Kante, Mahrez and Vardy.
>>65513243
>tfw my whole family on my mom's side are life-long tigers fans
>tfw my whole family on my dad's side and me and my brother are life-long city fans
>tfw we've had to listen and watch tigers win european cups, league titles, everything while we've been relegated to the third tier
>tfw this season
it's a comfy one lads
>>65532066
>tfw keep calling them "laychester foxes" to my friends
>they all laugh
Thanks, America!
>>65489657
All the big teams are underperforming. In a normal season Leicester would be 4th to 5th now and would end up finishing 7th or 8th
>>65517995
haha
>>65517995
>You will never have this kind of inferiority complex
feels good senpai
>>65518405
>le tactical insight ipad man
Who is that again?
>>65532118
Sounds way too high
>>65534477
>underperforming
Every season will probably be like this now. The top teams aren't as good as they were and everyone else is much better than they were.
Ganbare Leicester.
>>65547923
>le constipated anime girl
>worst passing accuracy
>second worst possession
>second lowest passes per game
>top by 5 points
>>65511383
>Leicester finish 2nd to Man City
>Man City gets title revoked for doping
>FA refuse to give title to Leciester
>>65549290
More passes MUST equal Better!
>>65513487
>FCUM
literally the most plastic club in the world. if you don't support a 100 year old only-ever-amateur club which struggles to find enough members to field a team every week then you don't know shit about football.
>>65495472
This is true. Look at AC Milan. Galliani has been doing this for decades. On paper, Milan should never have lost a game for 30 years.
>>65549290
This actualy means that at some point their luck is going to run out, good pic.
>>65495472
This. Someone's Atletico is another example. He always gets second tier players and the team thrives in being the underdog.
>>65549680
>Muh Spanish passing and possession
None of that means shit if you can't put the ball in the back of the net.
>>65549373
>A semi-professional team in the 6th tier of English football
>Plastic
Aussie shitposting is relentless
>>65494960
>preferring "bayern wins lmao" over epl¨
