Our series of pre-season members’ articles continues with a look at the dethroned champions Leicester City.
To open, we check out the team performance levels in a bid to spot any trends or improvements, then move to analyse their main performers with a view to assessing their key targets ahead of the new season.
The Foxes displayed little of the credentials that helped them win the title under Claudio Ranieri in 2015/16. Indeed, they were among the relegation candidates before the Italian was eventually replaced by Craig Shakespeare by Gameweek 26.
They ultimately finished in twelfth spot – only 10 points clear of the drop zone – and found the net on just 48 occasions, which was the tenth most prolific scoring record in the top-flight.
That compared very poorly to their previous season’s output, where the King Power outfit scored 68 times – the third-highest tally – on their way to the crown.
