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Leicester City lucky to have Brendan Rodgers’ 2 years of progress

By Damon Carter

Leicester City's Northern Irish manager Brendan Rodgers (C) (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)
Leicester City's Northern Irish manager Brendan Rodgers (C) (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images) /
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Sign for new Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images) /

131 Premier League points

131 points is an impressive tally and when you stretch that over 74 games it gives you an average points per game of 1.77. If Leicester were to continue that they would finish on 67 points for the season. Whether that would be enough for their Champions League dreams remains to be seen.

In his first full season with the club Rodgers finished 5th – the second highest top flight finish since 1963. The harsh reality was that the players came up short when it mattered and somehow achieved throwing away a near certain Champions League place when being seemingly out of touching distance of Manchester United and Chelsea. Hopefully this season they have enough to get the job done. But let’s not forget that the previous manager claimed it was impossible to be a top 6 club in 2018, the current manager has achieved that almost immediately and somehow the east Midlanders are still justifiably disappointed.

FA Cup – No surprises….for now

Quarter final defeats are something of a Leicester specialty under numerous managers. with the FA cup in particular causing too many near misses. Brendan Rodgers added to this tally last year with a drab defeat against Chelsea. He has an opportunity to get Leicester to their first FA cup semi final for 39 years when he takes on Manchester United in March.

League Cup – the nearly men

The less said about this season’s reserve team defeat to Arsenal the better. Last season though the defeat to Aston Villa still sticks in the throat with the Foxes dominating large parts of the tie to be dealt a late sucker punch and a shocking missed handball to compound. In reality though Leicester didn’t really show up when it mattered and losing to a team battling relegation at the time was disappointing especially when it would have meant the first cup final for 20 years.