Leicester boss must make changes to get team on top form

Leicester City’s Brendan Rodgers has got a lot right tactically. Nevertheless, here are the changes needed to improve our performances.

Leicester  have been involved in three Premier League games and the Community Shield up until now. With three wins – two in the league – and one loss.

Here is what you need to know from those matches and what needs to be done to get this team back to a proper potent bunch.

Leicester City’s stats

For those keeping track, Brendan Rodgers’ men have scored four goals in the league and conceded five.

This has come from an expected goals total of 2.57 and xG Against of 5.06. So, you could argue we were lucky to score four but conceded exactly the number we should have been expected to.

This does make us third worst in the league judged solely on xG, and fifth worst on xG minus xGA. These are mere reflections of our performances. Let’s dig even deeper into the stats.

Clearances per game indicates how much work defenders are having to do in order to prevent devastating opposition attacks. Those quick hits at the ball to knock them away from your half.

Well, we’ve got 19 per game. By comparison, West Ham only have 13.7 and that is with less average possession than the King Power side.

Possession does not mean much if it is not progressive or significantly potent enough to break down opposition blocks. This is something we have struggled to do. The main reason being the involvement – or lack thereof – of particular players.

Statistically speaking, it is Caglar Soyuncu, Wilfred Ndidi, Luke Thomas, and Youri Tielemans that are most involved in matches. They get the ball regularly or are constantly undertaking defensive actions.

In fact, the disparity between attack and defence is so stark despite our apparent dominance in matches, that the least involved out of our most played players have been Harvey Barnes, Ayoze Perez, and James Maddison. There are reasons for this, though.