Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview
Tottenham have won five of their last six Premier League home games against Leicester (L1), scoring at least three goals in all five of those victories.
Following a 1-1 draw in August, Leicester are looking to avoid defeat in both Premier League meetings with Spurs in a single campaign for the first time since their title winning season of 2015-16. Back then, the sides drew 1-1 in August, before Leicester won 1-0 away in January.
There have been 130 goals in 35 Premier League meetings between Tottenham and Leicester, the highest goals-per-game ratio of any fixture to have been played at least 30 times (3.71).
Since the start of December, only Southampton (8) have lost more Premier League games than Tottenham Hotspur (7), while the Saints are also the only side to concede more goals (25) than Spurs have (22).
Leicester City have lost their last seven Premier League matches and could equal their league record for consecutive defeats in this match, losing eight games in a row between March and April 2001.
Tottenham have lost their last three Premier League matches, last losing four in a row in April/May 2024. They didn’t lose four in a row at all between 2005 and 2023, with Ange Postecoglou potentially becoming only the second Spurs manager to lose four consecutively twice, alongside David Pleat in 2003-04.
Since Ruud van Nistelrooy took charge of Leicester for the first time on 3 December, only Brentford (176) and Southampton (169) have faced more shots than the Foxes (154). The 17.1 shots they’ve faced per game under the Dutchman is still marginally lower than they did under Steve Cooper this season (17.6).
Leicester’s Ruud van Nistelrooy is only the fourth manager in Premier League history to suffer a run of seven consecutive defeats within his first 10 games at a club, along with Alan Ball at Man City in 1995 (8 in a row), Mick McCarthy at Sunderland in 2003/2005 (10 in a row) and Terry Connor at Wolves in 2012 (7 in a row).
Only Chelsea’s Cole Palmer (62) has created more chances in the Premier League this season than Tottenham’s Dejan Kulusevski (56). The Swede has also scored in four of his last eight games, scoring four goals, although he’s ended on the losing side in three of those games.
Leicester goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk is the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede multiple goals in each of his first five appearances, shipping 11 goals in total. The last Foxes keeper to concede 2+ goals in six games in a row was Ron-Robert Zieler in the 2016-17 campaign.
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