EPL 23rd-25th April 2016
English Premier League 23rd-25th of April¶
Leicester take a big step towards the title as Spurs falter against West Brom. Everything else in a little bit of stasis as we wind-up the premier league. A large block of clubs with little to play for.
%matplotlib inline
import league_analysis
from IPython.display import display, HTML
epl = league_analysis.epl
display(HTML(league_analysis.blog_weekly_header(epl, '23/04/2016', '25/04/2016')))
Leicester 4-0 Swansea, Tottenham 1-1 West Brom¶
So Tottenham would really have liked these results to have been swapped. Gaining two points on Leicester would have put them just 3 points behind and with a superior goal difference probably favourites. As it is, Leicester need one win from three, or three draws. Even after the result on Sunday, if Tottenham had seen past Pulis's West Brom, Leicester would still potentially need 5 points from 3 games. Winning one, losing one and drawing one seems a pretty plausible haul from their three remaining games, which will now be enough, but would not have been had Tottenham won on Monday night and their remaining games.
You have to say from the shot statistics Leicester really deserved their win against a Swansea side who are not quite mathematically safe since Norwich have 4 games to play, but can probably rest easy. In contrast a 1-1 draw seemed a fair result on Monday night.