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Leicester City v Tottenham
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Kick Off: Monday 19th August at 20:00
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Competition: Premier League
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Watch Live: Sky Sports Main Event
After a short one-year hiatus, Leicester City are back in the Premier League and the Foxes start their latest top-flight tenure with a potentially exciting tussle against Tottenham Hotspur in the first Monday Night Football offering of the new campaign.
Spurs were one of the division’s great entertainers last season under their tactically adventurous Australian boss Ange Postecoglou and the Londoners’ fixtures should come with a guarantee of goals again in 2024/25.
Listed as one of the favourites to go straight back down, Leicester will be determined to defy the naysayers under new manager Steve Cooper, however, they have already been heavily opposed in the markets ahead of Monday’s opener with the Foxes priced as long as 5.0 to collect three points.
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Solanke to have 2+ Shots on Target & Son to have 1+ Shots on Target
Leicester City v Tottenham Best Bets
Backing Tottenham to win their opening Premier League fixture at Leicester looks like a safe manoeuvre for cautious bettors on Monday, however, combining an away win with over 2.5 goals has just as much appeal at a more attractive price of 2.10.
28 goals were scored in the clubs’ last five meetings and the high-scoring history of this fixture combined with Tottenham’s cavalier approach under Ange Postecoglou suggests more goal-scoring mayhem will be on the cards at the King Power Stadium.
74% of Tottenham’s away fixtures in the Premier League last term returned over 2.5 goals and with James Maddison, Dean Kulusevski, Son Heung-min and summer signing Dominic Solanke forming a potent front foursome, we expect Spurs to score enough goals to mask any defensive issues that might arise against Leicester.
Tottenham won all six of their league meetings against promoted sides last term and we’re backing them to be just as ruthless here.
The goal-scoring and chance-creating potential in Tottenham’s ranks opens up another worthwhile avenue in the shots on target market. Spurs averaged 5.45 shots per 90 in the Premier League last season, which was the division’s fourth-best output.
With Solanke adding another string to their bow, they have the quality to improve upon that figure against an ordinary-looking Leicester outfit on Monday and backing Spurs to have six or more shots on target looks like top value at 1.73.
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📊 Leicester City Form and Stats
Leicester City topped the Championship with 97 points last season, though the loss of the manager who masterminded their promotion charge, Enzo Maresca, feels like a significant blow to their chances of securing Premier League survival this term.
The appointment of Steve Cooper as Maresca’s replacement wasn’t greeted with unanimous enthusiasm by City supporters and coincidentally, the last time Cooper managed in a Premier League fixture (Dec ‘23), his Nottingham Forest were beaten 2-0 at home by, you guessed it, Tottenham Hotspur.
Leicester averaged 1.83 goals per game in the Championship last season and ranked second in the division in the average possession (61.6%) stakes, though Cooper’s more direct style of play at Forest had little in common with Maresca’s more controlled approach and it will be interesting to see how the Foxes adapt to a different philosophy.
Midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall clocked a club-high 26 Championship goal contributions last season, though the 24-year-old followed Maresca to Chelsea and so far at least, Leicester have failed to sign a like-for-like replacement.
Leicester will be looking to wingers Abdul Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi for inspiration on the flanks. That pair chipped in with 37 goal contributions between them last season while averaging 2.40 and 2.21 shots per 90 minutes respectively.
City finished their pre-season programme with a trio of successive defeats against Palermo (0-1), Augsburg (0-1) and Lens (0-3), drawing a blank on each occasion.
📊 Tottenham Form and Stats
Tottenham missed out on Champions League qualification by just two points last season and a renewed charge for a top four finish in the Premier League is the primary objective in 2024/25.
To that end, they’ve shown a decent amount of ambition in the summer market, with the signing of £65m striker Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth a particularly eye-catching capture.
Solanke scored 19 Premier League goals for the Cherries last season and Spurs hope the centre-forward can be the focal point of an already talented frontline this year.
Tottenham had a reputation for producing free-wheeling, attacking football last season and over 2.5 goals landed in a division-high 79% of their Premier League fixtures in 2023/24 with a further 71% of the same matches featuring goals at both ends.
Interestingly, no other Premier League suffered more fouls than Tottenham over the course of the previous season. Spurs’ players were fouled 13.4 times per 90, with former Leicester midfielder James Maddison (3.12) their most kicked individual.
Six different Tottenham players finished the season with double-figure goal contributions, with the evergreen Son Heung-min the top performer (27). Pedro Porro’s surges from right wing back earned him an impressive three goals and seven assists. Watch out for the Spaniard’s marauding runs on Monday.
Spurs’ commitment to forward-thinking football came at a cost at the opposite end however, and only six clubs finished the campaign with a worse xGA figure (63.4).
Tottenham’s swashbuckling style was on show again in pre-season. Their last five friendly matches produced 28 goals (5.60 avg) and Spurs conceded ten times combined in the last four of those outings.
⚔️ Leicester City vs Tottenham Head-to-Head
When Leicester and Tottenham last crossed paths in February 2023, City roared back from a goal down to thump Spurs 4-1 at the King Power Stadium to avenge the 6-2 mauling they had suffered in the reverse fixture between the clubs in the capital five months earlier.
The goal-bonanza witnessed in both of the teams’ encounters during the 2022/23 wasn’t all that unusual however, in fact, of all the Premier League fixtures that have been contested at least 30 times, Leicester’s meetings with Tottenham have the highest goals-per-game average (3.80).
A whopping 28 goals rattled the net in the last five skirmishes (5.60 avg) between the teams alone, with BTTS landing on each occasion. In terms of results, Tottenham emerged with maximum points in four of those five chaotic contests.
Leicester supporters have been traumatised by talismanic Tottenham star Son Heung-min before and the attacker has 13 goal involvements (9G, 4A) in 14 Premier League appearances against the Foxes. The 32-year-old bagged five goals and an assist in his last three runouts against City alone, though he hasn’t scored at the King Power Stadium since December 2018.
For City, Jamie Vardy usually holds the aces against Tottenham. The veteran has scored eight Premier League goals against Spurs, however, he misses Monday’s fixture through injury.
Interestingly, James Maddison notched home and away against Tottenham during Leicester’s last Premier League campaign. The attacking midfielder, who returns to his old stomping ground on Monday, hit four goals against Spurs overall before joining the Londoners in the summer of 2023.
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