Strategics Unfolded : Leicester City F.C.

Star player Vardy, Star Assist Mahrez and the Secret Tactical Gameplay of Leicester City F.C. Revealed :

Foxes promotion to Champions league still awaits their path to Triumph the victory of Premier League. A Club succeeded more interceptions and tackles than any other in the Premier League, leaving only the exception of Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Paris St. Germain having scored more top-tier goals across their continent. N'Golo Kante covering for Mahrez and Vardy to drive inwards the other half of the field is the secret of making more interceptions on the run and more tackles while in attack. The individual energy each Fox's Player is dedicating toward their compact bonding - should not be mistaken as their Inter-Player-Bond with their Tactical-Compressed-Formation.

Leicester City F.C. formats their line-up in modern English 4-4-2, where Mahrez's tendency of drifting inwards and then passing onto the nearest forwards has been adapted to the original line up strategy of the Foxes. Where now Albrighton and Mahrez both carry the tendency of drifting inwards to their own player's zone until two of the forwards are in position to receive while the rest assure the most crowded environment to chase opponent intruders out from their zone into the field.

If dug deeper, Leicester's gameplay tactics are highly inspired by the Twin Tactical Strategy of Jupp and Sacchi, which Jupp Heynkes demonstrated well via Bayern Munich against F.C. Barcelona in the Semi Finals of Champions League 2012-2013 where Barcelona faced a miserable defeat by 7 concedes against 0 scored.

The Narrow Italian line up of the Foxes has been slightly modified into ultra-narrow Line by Game Changed Claudio Ranieri. Similarities of Twin Tactics are quite prominent in the Foxes' playing strategy, e.g.: two compact Pentagons formed from within each other and the maximum of a 25 Yards distance between the Line of Defenders and the Line of Forwards.

In basic words, the Foxes begin with the narrow line up 4-4-2, with a maximum gap maintained to be 25 Yards, which elaborates (1)the availability of highest number of players in chasing opponent attackers; (2) as well as making it quite difficult to penetrate through the compacted line-up by Compressing the inter-line-up-distance between the Defender's line and the Forward's line. (3) Separating the opponent from the goal by surrounding the possession of the ball and the fellow opponents headed for attacking in the center field with a minimal playable distance.

With Abrighton and Mahrez covering the corners, Kante and King draw the Penetrating line alongside one of them depending on the opponents and the ball's entering location. Mahrez and Albrighton - the Wingers of Leicester, mainly pinch the opponent in possession of the ball inward their center line up and once the opponent takes a either right or left move, the nearest Forward and Winger pair up together in closing down his possession and win the ball right back. If this does not apply, they can always force the opponent for making a long pass inward their defense ground where Leicester's line of 4 defenders can always win it back.

The Fullbacks can always step in to prevent players from turning with the ball in the midfield. If any opponent tries to penetrate through the Pentagon towards the goal, then Center Backs like Robert Huth and Wes Morgan are instructed to follow the checking runners into the middle block for being able to compress the Pentagon inwards from all sides to create a frustrating environment for the opponents to even play with flexibility. The team's compact Pentagon with maximum of a 25 Yards distance in between gives the players the access to cover all around them. So any luck for finding a center gap would cost the attackers into hard tackling circles with a frustrating crowd of defenders.

Leicester City tends to deny one of the Strategies of this Italian Tactic, and rather prefers to go a bit German there. Jupp Heynkes's idea of defending while in running into attacking ground seems more adjustable to Claudio than Arrigo Sacchi's theory of always keeping a straight defense line blocking the goal box when Wingers and Forwards are on attack. So Bayern's former movements always emerge when the Foxes attack. The Foxes move all together alongside maintaining the proper Pentagon all through the other half of the field. So even if the outlook suggests that they might be outnumbered in the middle, their change in narrow formation of 4-4-2 often vary while attacking into Semi Narrow Line-up 4-3-3 or Super Narrow Line-up 4-3-2-1.

The way Leicester’s defenders maintain their defensive starting positions with such closer gap between each other, the opponents need to break down three consecutive lines of pressure in a quick and fast succession to get through the Pentagon towards the Goal Box without hitting a ball over the top. If they chose to go long, the defense line at the back is usually high enough to catch a forward offside. Otherwise, GK Kasper Schmeichel is groomed well enough to deal with over hit passes in ease.

Star Player Vardy chases from the front, Midfielders N’Golo Kanté and Danny Drinkwater protect the center of the Pentagon and all four in the back are comfortable defending one-on-one if the ball gets that far. The midfielders hold their line of confrontation right around the halfway line, marking opponents and cutting off passing lanes to induce long balls.

Leicester City F.C. is actually not a club holding the lead over Possession. Rather, The Foxes form one of the most clinical Forwards played in Europe so far in this season. The ball hardly stays in the center for very long or hobbling in their feet cause as soon as one regains the possession of the ball, he tries to figure a probable diagonal penetrative shot or at least the wider possible range for making a shot. Their Shocking ability of Spring Attacking players as quicker as the possession of the ball is regained, has never been seen anywhere else than among players of Bayern Munich.

Claudio Ranieri's contract to stay for a while has allowed the players to groom up in a steady environment. Being the only club in this world to have recruited 7 individual Sports Scientists, mostly holding a Ph.D over Sports Science, and 3 individual Performance Analysts, a Technical Scout and a Tactical Analyst including former Manchester City F.C. player Adam Sadler.

The club has concentrated and invested more into strategic departments to be kept updated and form best-fit tactics for self-improvement. Claudio's strict governance has been proven a successful benefit over these utilities and well utilization of available opportunities as such.

"Mahrez is doing things with that left foot that I have only seen Lionel Messi do,"

                     -Former-Liverpool Defender Jamie Carragher

                     -Sky Sports

                     - Monday, February 1st, 2016.

Leicester City F.C. : Returned to Rise

The Foxes :  An Ascending Milestone Breaking Through the Relentless Tyranny of BPL Title's Circulation among 4 Traditional English Clubs.

Leicester City, commonly known as The Foxes, has overtaken English Premiere League by the second season of their return to BPL after a long awaited decade. Making History as they go, these Foxes has left the world awed in surprise as they climbed on top of the Fixture Table with a decent margin of point difference maintained throughout.

Previous year, after finishing on the 14th position, their Vigilant Return could even merely be expected, and leading the PM Table would be too far fetching of an idea for any Foxes fan to even dream of.

Since the very beginning of the Premier League, the Title of Barclays Premier League revolved around the possession of Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea F.C. and Arsenal; except once when Blackburn Rovers could snatch it away from Manchester United during the Finals of 1994. The Circumference in which the Title has been circulating also includes a few appearances of Liverpool to a number of finals, but Liverpool's probable chances were diminished as the Tyranny reigned by those 4 big league clubs had unofficially Legitimated Their Sole Right to Run for the Tittle but None Else.

64 years old former Italian Defender Claudio Ranieri, with Managerial career experiences in Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and Greece, was Leicester City F.C.'s Managerial Recruit on 13th of July 2015. Leicester City F.C. finally got relieved as they stood stable for next 3 years until the expiration of  Claudio Ranieri's Managerial Contract. Leicester City made 9 new recruitment of Managers in last 10 years. This inconstancy and uncertainty had been affecting its Field outcomes as training individual Foxes to grow Football Brain by practicing strategic game formation was not being possible due to rapid changes in the Managerial Post. At least not until Ranieri arrived.

A mere club likely to end up in the  bottom of the table, surely out of the top 10th circle, suddenly leading Premier League Table for consecutive 18 weeks and nearly halfway through the season, is now no more going unseen by the Big League Clubs, especially after maintaining seven clean sheets and a variant game strategy that takes a new turn every other match making it unpredictable to a certain extent to those Clubs who have applied their analytical philosophies in tackling Leicester's speed down. No Club has been so faster since Jupp Heynkes Bayern Munich, so clinically tactical since Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan. Claudio Ranieri's first hand Managerial of Inter Milan to understand complex Italian Strategic gameplays alike Sacchi's, now explains Leicester F.C's rise.

Note:

In the 11 seasons before the Premier League started in 1992, 13 different teams finished in the top three of England's top flight. In the first 11 seasons of the Premier League, 10 clubs did. Since 2003, only five teams have managed top-three finishes: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United.

Arsenal Vs Southampton - Preimere League 2015/2016 Match Report

Tottenham climbed above The Gunner's in the Premiere League Table,
Fans Blame Arsenal's last Three Consecutive League Defeats with No Goals Scored:

The Gunners must be pointed to have the field living the game by only Ozil in the whole of left flank and Alexis around the mid box, while Olivier alone himself restlessly covered for both during the whole of First Half. Together, three of them again proved to be a very highly demanding "start-up formation" for any club, due to their Strategically better performed combination. Forever-Green start-up 3, also titled as "The Must  Starting XI" when playing alongside each other even after a long while, showed true devotion holding up the Classic Arsenal's bandwidth.

As per the Second half, Joel's take over of the lead which Alexis had began to lack, helped Ozil keeping up battling against with the tricky countering Guard of the Southampton's scoring box - underdog Englishman Forster.

And the Amazing alertness of Forster which surely has fascinated more crowd than the disappointed bunch from the Gunners underestimating Englishmen tactics firing back at them. Ozil's must goal in the first half may have surely remained conceded even if keeper like David DeGea stood there instead of Forster. Impeccable close-ranging shot countering coverage was demonstrated by this 27 years old Englishman that left many faces in the audience Awed.

Must praise the coordination provided by Victor and Romeu to restrict any available space around Ozil, Sanchez and Campbell as much as possible, even causing suffocation at times in their flexibility to even move freely along with the ball. Fonte and Virgil (for a while Dijk too) didn't break the arch which they had strategically planned and flawlessly played out in real to counter the tricky contribution of Olivier to provide any cover for the other two, which resulted into mispairing in both Ozil and Campbell until Walcott drew the bit of change (which didn't make much of a difference though).
The Evident coordination being demonstrated flawlessly successful on the field of the The Saints' RBs and MFs's extraordinary consistency held altogether by being honestly devoted true to their strategy with full dedication concentrating on providing Fraser Forster with more alerting moment and better vigilant opportunities to be surer while countering any further intake. Strategy materialized to this level of Perfection has never been so recognizable in any of the Strategic matches for a very long time. It wouldn't have been possible without the Rooted unity of the Arc created by Fonte & Virgil, supported and stabled by Dijk in needed hours; and the Amazing frustration by restricting enough ground-space for any Gunner winger to move, remained completely undisturbed all throughout. The strategy consistently maintained its unpredictability until the mid-hour of the Second Half, when the concept of the Strategy finally stabilized for a while as it finally began clearing itself out.

 This complex Italian Covering Strategy included individual indication of revolving restriction Order given by a lead player to be executed by another side player, which as of in the authority of the Lead player itself to be alternated with ordering duties every other time from one player to another : in Strategic terms which is better referred as the "Varying Lead Hour". Only when the Varying Lead Hour stabilized while in between the second half, it was eminent that the Indication of revolving Restriction Order was now to be given by Victor whereas field-man Romeu just played out primary tactic by exhausting spacing environment as he pushed their target Winger toward the Arc where Dijk controlled the steering point and accordingly crowded the covering space by interfering the Arc tip into their fixed blockade zone, this resulted The Gunners to be forced to commit missed passes/give headers when possible or even committing short ranging goal-kicks every time into smaller accessible portions of the box. This allowed Forster to have a smaller Focus every time ton utilize lesser angles to perceive, most especially, optimizing his complete control over the particular Focal range providing more flexibility to act quicker to counter even any Unanticipated low Headers alike Olivier Giroud's one.

From the only Truly Heavy Defeat of this Premiere League this season, on 27th of December 2015, against Southampton by 4-0; Arsenal already carried the burden of losing the opportunity that already made them Cost to rise on Top of the Table of the Premiere League 2015-16 at Leicester's expense. Tonight, adding a more dramatic version of the word" Hat-trick" Defeat embracing Arsenal's consecutive defeat for the Third time in a row against Southampton, Especially the intake of 6 concedes and 0 scored against altogether.

Though it is noticeable that The Saints missed their vast chances of attacking due to their strict concentration onto a fixed strategy against the Gunners, they've achieved a Hat-trick in League Victories with zero concede.

Whereas Koscielny could not help undergoing analytical Criticism by few Former Gunners alongside with the Sports Analysts; summarizing an opinion that said, "At times it is better to convey a pass toward the wingers and center midfielders standing in a position nearer to the box with practical possibilities to score than the idea of shooting a Heading over to the sky from about 6/7 yards off the box."

For Olivier, that tipped away header was sudden enough, it was just Foster who's just been too good to have understood the tactic for which Olivier's shot laid low.
Emerging the Berth of 3 consecutive League Victories without a single Concede in this Premier League, Southampton proudly begins the introduction of The Englishman Fraser Forster guarding the curtains of their Goal-Box for three consecutive League Matches..