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Does the new manager bounce work? Which new PL bosses avoided defeat this season?

Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce (REUTERS)
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How have teams fared this season straight after hiring a new boss? Swansea City, Hull City and now Leicester have all benefitted from manager changes.

Leicester City's Jamie Vardy in action with Liverpool's Lucas LeivaLeicester City’s appeared revitalised against Liverpool

Leicester benefitted from the fabled new manager bounce on Monday, beating Liverpool 3-1 to stop a run of five successive defeats.

Under the instructions of caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare they looked like the team who won the league so brilliantly last season, and are not the first Premier League side to see an immediate upturn in results after changing manager.

Hull City won their first game under Marco Silva, beating Swansea 2-0 in the FA Cup, as well as his first league game while Paul Clement moved from the stands to the touchline during his first game in charge of the Swans and they ended up winning.

In fact of the six managers who have inherited a job mid-way through this Premier League season only the Swansea duo of Bob Bradley and then caretaker Alan Curtis lost their first game.

Sam Allardyce drew his opening match with Crystal Palace.

Nottingham Forest’s Interim manager Gary BrazilGary Brazil won his first game in charge of Nottingham Forest, albeit as caretaker manager at the time

In the Championship meanwhile the bounce has been less pronounced with four wins, three draws and four defeats for new bosses in their first game.

However when you consider most of those managers are taking over teams that had been performing poorly it’s not a bad record.

The new manager bounce clearly does exist, but so too does long-term thinking. It’s clear that the best-run clubs rely on the latter rather than the former.