Newcastle United 2-3 Leicester City: Three lessons learned

Puel can provoke inspiring football after all

When the Frenchman was introduced as Leicester City manager, they sat 14th with only two wins from nine games.

Many believed the appointment lacked ambition due to Puel’s record at Southampton the season before. He led the Saints to 8th place and the EFL Cup final but in doing so, his style of play was ridiculed.

However within his first seven games his Leicester side have produced 14 points and have only suffered one defeat at the hands of league leaders Manchester City.

The attacking intent laid out by Puel has been commendable. The Foxes have scored two or more goals in four of the seven games and have only failed not to make the score-sheet once.

The attacking four of Riyad Mahrez, Marc Albrighton, Jamie Vardy and Demarai Gray have played a pivotal role behind their success.

Puel has given the quartet a profound understanding of the way he wants them to play, they can now interchange with each other and they have a sense of fluidity behind their movement which is making them unplayable.

From all eleven of the goals scored under Puel, nine of them have come from one of the four.

Against Newcastle, they could have easily had more, Danny Simpson came close twice as well as Mahrez and Gray firing wide.

Leicester go into every game right now expecting to score more goals than the opposition and quite frankly they look like doing so every time.