Pre Match Leicester Vs Burnley

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Head-to-head

  • Leicester are unbeaten in nine home league games against Burnley (W5, D4).
  • The Clarets' last top-flight win away to the Foxes was a 2-0 victory on 26 October 1968.
  • Four of the past five games have ended 2-1, including the last three.
Leicester City

  • Leicester can begin a Premier League campaign with back-to-back wins for just the third time. They last did so in their title-winning season of 2015-16.
  • The Foxes have lost their opening home match in just one of their past 13 top-flight campaigns (W7, D5), with that defeat a 5-0 loss to Bolton in 2001.
  • Victory would give Brendan Rodgers the 100th Premier League win of his managerial career, in his 210th game.
  • The only British managers to reach the milestone in fewer matches are Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan.
  • Jamie Vardy has scored with 27.5% of his Premier League shots since the start of last season, the best conversion rate of any player with at least 10 goals.
Burnley

  • Burnley lost only one of their final eight Premier League away games last season (W5, D2), with that defeat coming at Manchester City on 22 June.
  • The Clarets have not lost their opening league match in any of the previous three seasons, winning twice.
  • Their tally of 15 league wins in 2019-20 was their highest in a top-flight season for 45 years.
  • They also recorded 15 clean sheets - their best top-flight total since 1954-55.
  • Chris Wood scored in Burnley's final three games last season and can equal the club record by scoring in a fourth successive Premier League match.
  • Phil Bardsley could make his 300th appearance in the English top flight.
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That ****ing Bolton game. No sooner I forget it, something brings it stinging back.
 
**** modern football. I thought this was tonight. Planned my whole day so I'd be clear by 7. And now I've got to do it again tomorrow.

7 on a Sunday - ****ing ridiculous!
 
Skitzo said:
its **** all to do with "modern football" its because of a global pandemic
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There's only one reason why the games not originally selected for TV had to change their kick-off day/time. They could have all been shown live on different channels. But that would dilute the TV audience. Sky/BT call the shots.
 
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There's only one reason why the games not originally selected for TV had to change their kick-off day/time. They could have all been shown live on different channels. But that would dilute the TV audience. Sky/BT call the shots.
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except this game is on BBC, free to air and therefore against modern football
 
Skitzo said:
modern football means you always have to pay some evil corporation like Sky or BT to watch, or so my social media feed keeps telling me
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So why does it have to be on at 7pm on a Sunday?
 
Why not? We all want to watch the Leicester game but some of us will watch other games too. Likewise, other fans will want to watch their team but some will also want to watch us. It wouldn't be possible if it was all 3pm on a Saturday. Modern Football is ace (for once)
 
Skitzo said:
modern football means you always have to pay some evil corporation like Sky or BT to watch, or so my social media feed keeps telling me
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You mean like the unnecessary license fee grabbing BBC? Whatever the BBC like to sell themselves as, 'free to air' they ain't.
 
there are worse things to worry about than, during a period where we can't go to games, being able to turn the tv on pretty much at any point during the weekend and see a live match.
even though its an unpopular view, the revenues of sky and bt have taken a battering during covid, either through churn to other broadband providers (when sport was off) or loss of ad revenue, which although a much lower % of their model than say itv, is still enough to cause redundancies and importantly inability to physically make or fund other decent non live programming (have you seen the shit on recently?).
hence, maximising the number of games shown live by spreading them out.
it works both for the clubs, stations, fans and ultimately the gov who want people happy at home after their socially distanced shop and socialise with 6 or less.
added to that, channel 4 (publicly funded) actually sell BT Sport ad inventory for them. They lost 40% of their revenue during covid and are as ****ed as itv, so I can fully understand and support why they want to show games 1 after the other.
The quid pro quo is that they release more free to air - which means i get to paint the shed, play with the kids, eat sunday lunch and still settle down to watch City before watching McIlroy win the US Open.
 
sparky79 said:
there are worse things to worry about than, during a period where we can't go to games, being able to turn the tv on pretty much at any point during the weekend and see a live match.
even though its an unpopular view, the revenues of sky and bt have taken a battering during covid, either through churn to other broadband providers (when sport was off) or loss of ad revenue, which although a much lower % of their model than say itv, is still enough to cause redundancies and importantly inability to physically make or fund other decent non live programming (have you seen the shit on recently?).
hence, maximising the number of games shown live by spreading them out.
it works both for the clubs, stations, fans and ultimately the gov who want people happy at home after their socially distanced shop and socialise with 6 or less.
added to that, channel 4 (publicly funded) actually sell BT Sport ad inventory for them. They lost 40% of their revenue during covid and are as ****ed as itv, so I can fully understand and support why they want to show games 1 after the other.
The quid pro quo is that they release more free to air - which means i get to paint the shed, play with the kids, eat sunday lunch and still settle down to watch City before watching McIlroy win the US Open.
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I was with you until McIlroy.
 
McIlroy to shoot 74 and never really get going, is my prediction. 0-0 for the footy.
 
id take 0-0. dont want us thinking we dont need to sign anyone but dont want us to lose.
 
0-0 at home is the sort of score I would take at home to Man C not Burnley, anything less than 3 points will be disappointing
 
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