Foxes have made 'promising start' under Cifuentes

Four league games into the season and we already have our first international break, but it does give us time to reflect on Leicester City's start to the campaign.

Four league games, one Carabao Cup game and one pre-season friendly. That's how many games Marti Cifuentes has had in charge since he joined Leicester on 15 July. That was just 36 days before our first league game.

So six games in charge in total so far, that's almost a pre-season alone for some teams. On top of that, one free goalkeeper aside, Cifuentes has had to deal with a team that wasn't his, a team he could not add to before selling.

He lost first-teamers Mads Hermansen, Wilfred Ndidi, Conor Coady, Kasey McAteer, James Justin and Jamie Vardy. He also had to deal with players whose heads had been turned, such as Harry Winks and Bilal El Khannouss, all while dealing with players' reactions to the fans and fans' reactions to the performances.

Yet despite all this, Cifuentes beat a top-six Italian side, won three of four league games and has guided us to fourth in the league, the best position of the three relegated sides. Yes, we lost to Huddersfield Town in the Carabao Cup - they went on to also beat Premier League Sunderland on penalties - but he will have learned from this.

Of course, performances can be improved, but scoring 10 goals in six games under Marti and keeping three clean sheets makes for a promising start.

If you compare that to the 20 goals in 27 games under Ruud van Nistelrooy last season (six of which came against QPR in the FA Cup) along with just two clean sheets in those 27 games, Cifuentes' reign has begun a whole lot more brightly.

I am sure Chelsea already have all these stats noted!

Potter, Potter, who the hell is Potter?

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