Leicester City are off the charts with passes directly up the pitch.
Leicester are pretty good at it.
But Leicester are playing directly up the pitch.
Before Leicester City, this was what was considered to be good quality football that Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool are trying to do it.
And Leicester City had less chances but they were very effective in converting them.
And Leicester seem to have evolved a system that the others weren't ready to handle.
And I think this is the Leicester City story, but it's probably even more incredible than Leicester City because the amounts of money and the amounts of technology.
These shapes are the typical areas where Leicester City players recover the ball.
So it seems from your graph like Leicester are playing quite a different style to sort of most of the other top teams.
So you don't think Leicester will be successful next season?
I don't think that Leicester will win, but I don't actually know who will win.
And this is a nice picture of the defensive zones that Leicester City create.
And you can get an idea of how Leicester move the ball around.
But they had no strategy for dealing with Leicester .
So my prediction for next season is that Leicester will win the League, that Spurs will be second, because that's the best
So did you also do some sort of comparative analysis of Leicester before they became quite so successful?
But I decided quite early on that I had to look at this Leicester City thing and work out what was going on.
And I did a study back in February looking at what is it that makes Leicester different from the other teams.
He is in the middle of doing five sold out nights at Leicester Square Theatre, which, he just told me before, is taking its toll a little bit.
So for example, University of Leicester researchers recently went into a wine shop, actually a grocery store, the wine department, cleared it out,
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And Curtis Wong was there, who does Bill Gates's work on his "Codex Leicester ," which is a famous Leonardo.
dude And, wasn't very popular in European soccer Leicester 's coach, if you didn't know any better this guy just looked like A typical middle aged looking man, was eyeing Okazaki to scout
And if you work on this area, you will be great for Leicester And, as a result of Okazaki's performance, Leicester won
I used to play down there on Leicester Square for Pride, down in Soho.
This is from earlier in the season, Manchester City versus Leicester .
So this is Riyad Mahrez, who's been one of the successful players for Leicester this season.
And this one is not in the book because I wrote the book before the whole Leicester City phenomenon.
But you see this territory at the back, and what Leicester have also been extremely good in doing is that they own this territory further up at the front
But this season by stepping exactly into this area, Leicester City seem to be much more effective.
Then lastly, this is now a season network of-- Leicester were very nice because they have pretty much the same players on the pitch throughout the season
And, yeah, you will see teams copying Leicester next season, but it's not a guarantee that it will work.
So Dr. Lewis Dartnell is a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester .
I'm a research Fellow up at the University of Leicester , although I commute from North London up to Leicester every day.
I mean, I remember going to "Juggernaut" in West End, Leicester Square.
He looked through all his data and said, Okazaki's running was exceptional If we have this small dude just keep on running, he will suit Leicester
My name's Lewis, as you've just heard, and I'm a research fellow based at the University of Leicester in the space research center there.