The team at stats group Opta say Steve Cooper’s side now have a less than 50 per cent chance of going back down to the Championship, a change from their pre-season prediction
Leicester City are defying pre-season expectations and are now predicted to earn Premier League survival.
The stats boffins at Opta have run the numbers of the campaign so far and say Steve Cooper’s side now have a 44.8 per cent chance of going down, the first time the number has been below 50 per cent. Before a ball was kicked, City, at 60.3 per cent to go down, were ranked alongside fellow promoted clubs Ipswich and Southampton as the favourites to be relegated, but six points from seven matches and a poor start for Wolves has seen City leap out of the predicted bottom three.
While 15th in the table after picking up their first win of the campaign over Bournemouth, there has still been concern over some aspects of the performances, with City taking the fewest shots and conceding the most efforts so far this season. But Opta’s supercomputer, which analyses teams based on historical and recent performance data as well as fixture schedules, does not seem as concerned.