Amongst the elite: this Leicester player’s second coming puts him within Europe’s best | OneFootball

Leicester City won again, emphatically, on Sunday against Aston Villa; the 4-1 victory was their eighth-consecutive win in a row – a club record.

Once again it was their talisman Jamie Vardy who inspired the result. Vardy became the second player in Premier League history to score in eight consecutive games, twice. Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the first person to achieve the feat, is esteemed company to be in. But the Foxes aren’t just breaking domestic records, he’s keeping pace with some of the best poachers in Europe, with the best conversion rate of any striker in the top five leagues.

But it does not stop there. Before the weekend only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandoski had scored more league goals than Vardy in 2019. Though a brace against Villa, with the Pole failing to score, means that only the six-time Ballon d’Or winner has found the back of the net more often this year.

This season in the top five European leagues it is just Ciro Immobile who has outscored the Premier League’s front runner. Lazio’s Italian poacher is only a single goal ahead of his English counterpart on 17, though he has contributed to 47 per cent of his sides Serie A goals this term, six per cent more than Vardy. It means that when factoring in UEFA’s coefficient, the Foxes striker is just one strike away from going joint-level in the race to bag the European goal-scoring prize.

Based on his form since Brendan Rodgers’ introduction at the King Power Stadium, Vardy could conceivably beat off competition to finish the year as the undisputed king of European goals. Since the ex-Liverpool boss took charge, Vardy has found the back of the net 25 times in 26 matches.

The stats surrounding Vardy’s second coming are mind-boggling, he is currently five goals clear in the race for the Premier League Golden Boot, and in the form he currently finds himself in, only injury could prevent him securing the award for the second time.

Though with the Spanish winter break fast approaching and English football fixtures coming thick and fast, there is every chance Vardy could go one better and end 2019 having scored more league goals than Messi. It would be a testament to just how impressive his second coming has been.