According to the Opta statistics team, Steve Cooper’s club now has a less than 50% probability of returning to the Championship, which is different from what they predicted before the season.
Despite preseason predictions, Leicester City is now expected to survive in the Premier League.
According to the campaign’s current statistics, Steve Cooper’s team now has a 44.8% chance of losing, the first time the percentage has fallen below 50%, according to Opta’s statisticians. Before a ball was kicked, City was placed as the favourite to be relegated, along with fellow promoted clubs Southampton and Ipswich, at 60.3% to go down. However, six points from seven games and Wolves’ poor start have caused City to jump out of the anticipated bottom three.
Despite finishing 15th in the standings with their first victory of the season versus Bournemouth, some aspects of the performances have raised concerns, as City has allowed the most efforts and taken the fewest shots this season. Opta’s supercomputer, however, which evaluates clubs using fixture schedules and both recent and historical performance data, does not appear to be as concerned.
However, City hasn’t gone above and above. From their first seven games, they have gained as many points as anticipated. But a lot of the bottom-place teams haven’t done well.
With only one point thus far, Southampton has collected nine fewer points than anticipated from their first seven games. There is currently a 90.7% likelihood that City’s opponents this weekend, the Saints, will be demoted.
Wolves have also underperformed by nine points and only managed one point from their first seven games. Preseason relegation odds for Gary O’Neil’s team were 20.9%, but they have since risen to 53.3%.
However, the supercomputer continues to predict that City would be at the bottom of the struggle. They currently give Cooper’s team a meagre 1.1% chance of placing in the top half.
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