It's a numbers game: Monaco can only 召集（する） ONE fan during 平易な 勝利，勝つ at Leicester

By Laurie Whitwell for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:37 BST, 27 July 2013 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 27 July 2013

Numbers to boggle the mind have been 渦巻くing around Monaco all summer and today in Leicester we were given another.

One. There was a 独房監禁 fan from the tiny principality in the King 力／強力にする Stadium to 元気づける his incredibly 豊富な team, soon 始める，決める to challenge the 設立するd 力／強力にするs of Europe, to a 3-0 victory.

Had the 開始 goal not gone in after only seven minutes ? through left-支援する Layvin Kurzawa (not a big-money 調印 since you ask) ? then any games of ‘Ou Est Wally?’ might have lasted a good while longer.

Thanks for coming: Without any of his own 支持者s there, Radamel Falcao was 井戸／弁護士席-received by the 地元のs

What's my age again? 27-year-old (not 29) Falcao got on the scoresheet against Leicester

As it was the gentleman, wearing a red and white scarf にもかかわらず the baking heat, stood alone の中で 10,633 fans to applaud Kurzawa’s ちらりと見ることd header before quickly sitting 支援する 負かす／撃墜する, somewhat bashful at his moment in the スポットライト.

Yes, this was a pre-season friendly against a 選手権 味方する, but the dearth of support only 増強するs the belief that when Monaco return to the 支持する／優勝者s League their に引き続いて will be at 半端物s with the 高さs they should 達成する.

There may have been a few more French fans in th e stands but, if so, they kept silent throughout.

The home support was also perhaps surprisingly low, considering tickets to see £50million-man Radamel Falcao and his expensively acquired チーム仲間s were 利用できる for as little as £15.

The Colombian has been the 焦点（を合わせる） for much of the number-crunching on the Cote d’Azur. His 移転 料金 alone could have bought the entire Leicester first team squad three times over.

Splash the cash: 同様に as Falcao, Monaco can also call on the £40m talent of Colombian James Rodriguez

Heck, Joao Moutinho’s £22m price would have done it once with several millions left spare. The Portuguese impressed, 特に with a splendid dribble and 運動 from distance, and it was his corner that 配達するd the opener.

Half an hour later Falcao got on the scoresheet. He was left an 平易な finish after Yannick Ferriera Carrasco’s smart 模造の 許すd Andrea Raggi’s cross to 会合，会う his left boot. A nice through ball by Mounir Obbadi had 始める，決める thi ngs in 動議.

This time a man decked in the yellow of Colombia, and waving the nation’s 旗, 迎える／歓迎するd the goal. Such 露骨な／あからさまの patriotism 支配するd him out of the 一致する for Monaco fans, however.

Falcao has this week been 軍隊d to 否定する that another number associated with his status is true: 29. 報告（する）／憶測s in his 母国 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the striker is 現実に two years older than his 規定するd 27 but a birth 証明書 was produced to 反駁する the 告訴，告発s.

Putting a 転換 in: Falcao showed the heart to get 伴う／関わるd all over the field as he hassled the Foxes backline

Blonde ambition: Kasper Schmeichel did his best to keep his more illustrious 対抗者s at bay

As it was, a real life 29-year-old often 証明するd a match. Wes Morgan いじめ（る）d Falcao at times, 迎撃するing passes played up to him and 封鎖するing one venomous strike.

At the other end it was a centre-支援する pairing of Ricardo Carvalho and Eric Abidal ? 証明するing that 恩赦，大赦s for El Clasico wars can be 設立する. They were two 解放する／自由な 調印s. In fact Monaco’s whole 防御の line cost 億万長者 owner Dmitry Rybolovlev nothing.

On 65 minutes another number stood out: 11. Claudio Ranieri swapped his entire starting line-up, meaning the introduction of £38million 購入（する） James Rodriguez.

Rack 'em up: Claudio Ranieri made 11 changes at the break

From a man famous for his たびたび（訪れる） ta ctical changes at Chelsea, it was not so much a tinker, more a 涙／ほころび-apart-and-put-together-again.

But when you have been furnished with a squad like the Italian has you may 同様に show it off with a grand gesture.

In the 86th minute, one of those 代用品，人s made it 3-0. Marcel Tisserand 嵐／襲撃するd （疑いを）晴らす and poked the ball past Kasper Schmeichel.

Tottenham Hotspur 供給する Monaco’s next 対立 a week today. That match takes place across the Channel, at the stadium which last season 普通の／平均（する）d a lower 出席 than Chesterfield’s.?

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