The Amazing Leicester City Story Continues!

Leicester City F.C. continued their super dream run as they marched past apparently the "bigger" club  Manchester City. Foxes overwhelmed the mighty Manchester club in their home ground, who spent more than twice the total market value of their opponents in the summer transfer window and still struggled to find the back of net with ball until 87th minute, when the Argentine striker Sergio Aguero bagged a consolation goal for his club. Leicester City grabbed the lead early in the game when the tall defender Robert Huth scored from short range, fed from a free kick by Riyad Mahrez. Manchester City  fans felt as if they had a deja vu when Foxes scored again in the starting minutes of second half. This time, it was Riyad Mahrez, who did a step-over and slotted the ball in the near corner as Joe Hart was stood between the bars helpless, just like rest of his team mates. Huth scored again with a brilliant header and everyone who witnessed the goal, could not believe the scoreline as last season when these two teams played each other the Manchester club topped the league table and Leicester was at the bottom. While every neutral fan, who expected this fixture to be an exciting contest, was left disappointed with the lackluster performance from the two time premier league champions as the final score was Manchester City 1-3 Leicester City.  

 Mahrez: The man behind LCFC's success

Now, there is a question in every premier league fan's head : "Is any other club big enough to deny the foxes their league title this year ?" . 

Probably not!  

 

Ever since the beginning of the current season, Leicester City has played like a champion and there are just two fixtures when they didn't collect any points. Foxes have displayed a brand of attacking football, which was long lost in this era of premier league. An era, where success was equated to the amount spent in the transfer window. Last two season winners, both Chelsea and Manchester City have virtually unlimited resources and are second to none when it comes to big money signings.

This ain't no dream Fox

Leicester City is now 5 points ahead of its closest rival the  North London club Tottenham Hotspurs and are expected to maintain that gap till the end of the season as next weekend they travel to Emirates Stadium after which they have comparatively easier fixtures. So if they can maintain their current form, nothing can stop Manager Claudio Ranieri's side to claim the English Premier League title. 

Coming this close to their ultimate prize and glory, they cannot afford to get complacent and slip down the league table. Personally I would like to bet my money on them and wish, they win the league title this season. 

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Goals wins you matches and accolades!

Last night world witnessed Lionel Messi lift his fifth Fifa ballon d'or trophy beating CR7 by a  huge margin (41% to 28%). We all clapped sang his praises on our whats app groups and twitter handles and its done and dusted for another 8-9 months at least. But do only goals win you awards on these glittery night? What about the defenders,holding midfielders and the valiant goalkeepers? Are their contributions inferior?

Ok lemme tell you an interesting fact. Last defender to lift Ballon d'or trophy was Fabio Cannavaro in 2006 which was 10 years back. No this was not what i was talking about, the astounding fact - he is the only defender to ever win this award in the entire it's existence. Boom! Besides him only 1 goal keeper had won it that too in 1964. Are we going too single minded while praising the good work? Why is that everyone thinks about goals and not clean sheets while determining the greatness of a player? I prefer playing as an all out attacker when i play on field but i have massive respect for the players who play at the back or you can say i am fond of what defenders do. I can make a mistake and get away with it easily but when they make a mistake its game over. Lets take a simple example we all remember the Gerrard slip which took title away from them but do we ever talk about the clear cut chances that suarez missed in that match?

Following is the list of the final 23 who were in race for the award

Keepers- Thibaut Courtois, Manuel Neuer

Defenders- Philipp Lahm, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Ramos

Midfielders- Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mario Gotze, Angel di Maria, Toni Kroos, Eden Hazard, Lionel Messi, Arjen Robben, James Rodriguez, Paul Pogba, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Yaya Toure, Neymar, Andres Iniesta

Strikers- Karim Benzema, Diego Costa, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thomas Muller

Lemme classify it furthur and make my point clearer-

Goal getters- 16

Goal restrictors- 7

and final three all goal getters.

The mismatch doesn't end here lets come to the transfer market. Highest fee ever paid for a defender £50 million for David Luis by PSG (and Suarez nut megged him there (; ) , highest fee paid £86 million for Gareth Bale by Real Madrid. Wages might revel another heart breaking story. I don't know since when this distinction is going but I do know when can we end this. Today! So lets keep our game Beautiful not only goalful.

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