DBasia.news – The Leicester City vs Chelsea match heats up the 25th week of the English League. The following are interesting facts about the meeting of the two teams in the top four.
Leicester City hosted Chelsea at King Power Stadium, Saturday (01/2/2020) PM. Leicester currently occupies the top three standings with 48 points, three points behind Manchester City who are in second.
While Chelsea had difficulty closing the distance with Leicester, with an eight point difference. Frank Lampard’s team have gone past two matches without a win: losing to Newcastle United and equaling to Arsenal.
Leicester themselves are without defeat in the last four league meetings with Chelsea. But Chelsea also has a pretty neat record in the last seven trips to the King Power Stadium.
The following are the data and facts in the match between Leicester vs Chelsea as reported by Opta:
– Leicester are unbeaten in the last four Premier League matches against Chelsea (1 win, 3 draws), their best pace since losing five matches, between April 1999-February 2001.
– Chelsea won five of the last seven away games in the Premier League to Leicester (1 draw, 1 loss). The only defeat in this period (December 2015) occurred in the season where Leicester were champions.
– No team has won more away wins at Leicester in the Premier League than Chelsea (4, the equivalent of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur).
– The team that played as hosts in the meeting between Leicester and Chelsea failed to win in the last six matches (3 draws, 3 losses). The last victory picked by the hosts in this duel was in October 2016 when the Blues won 3-0 at Stamford Bridge.
– Leicester lost in two of the last three home matches in the Premier League, despite their 4-1 victory over West Ham in the latest match. In the previous 15 matches, The Fox only lost once at King Power Stadium (11 wins, 3 draws).
– Of the first six away games in the league this season, Chelsea won 15 points out of 18 that might have been won (5 wins, 1 lost), scoring 18 goals in this period. While in the last six away games, they only won seven of the 18 available points (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses), only scoring seven goals.
– This will be the 12th game in a row where Chelsea starts in fourth position. This is the longest pace in that position since Tottenham arranged 23 matches in fourth place, between December 2005-May 2006, ending the season in fifth place after losing 1-2 to West Ham United in the last game.
– Brendan Rodgers has faced Chelsea 13 times in his career, no other team he has faced more often. He was without a win in all 13 matches (7 draws, 6 losses) and only lost more often against Manchester United (9).
– Harvey Barnes has scored in two consecutive Premier League matches, having only made two goals in his first 39 appearances in the competition. He has never scored in three consecutive matches in the top four divisions of the English League.
– Chelsea midfielder, Jorginho, has a 100% record from penalty points in the Premier League, scoring four goals from four occasions. Since the start of last season, 27% of his touches in the opponent’s penalty box have been penalties (4 out of 15 touches).