Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur: The last five meetings
Tottenham Hotspur travel to the King Power Stadium on Tuesday having not lost to Leicester City in their last three meetings but what happened the last five times these two went toe to toe.
Last five meetings:
Leicester 2-2 Tottenham- FA Cup third round
Nearly two years ago now, neither club could get the better of the other in the FA Cup. . Leicester made a few line-up changes to the side that were looking to take the Premier League by storm
Marcin Wasilewski levelled the score after Christian Eriksen’s early opener.However, Shinji Okazaki put the Foxes ahead before Harry Kane equalised from the spot with a minute to go, leading the game to a replay.
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Tottenham 0 – 1 Leicester City – Premier League
The two sides met in the league three days later at White Hart Lane. Robert Huth scored with a fine header from a Christian Fuchs corner. The victory alongside the away 3-1 win at Manchester City helped the Foxes widen their lead at the top.
Leicester City 0 – 2 Tottenham – FA Cup third round replay
Next up was the replay for the previously mentioned FA Cup tie. Leicester again made wholesale changes. Leonardo Ulloa, loanee Nathan Dyer, Gokhan Inler, Yohan Benalouane and Wasilewski were all put into the team. Tottenham ran out two-nil winners with Son Heung-Min and Nacer Chadli both on target.
Tottenham 1 – 1 Leicester City – Premier League
The following season, the Midlands club faced the north London in a score-draw. Honours were even as Leicester struggled to compete at the same levels of the season before. Although Ahmed Musa got the goal for the visitors, Tottenham’s then new signing Vincent Janssen prevented the Foxes leaving with all three points.
Leicester City 1 – 6 Tottenham- Premier League
In their last encounter, Spurs thrashed the hapless Leicester by six goals to one. England striker and former Leicester loanee Harry Kane bagged four goals and one assist, taking his goal scoring total against Leicester to six.. A good performance by Son also heaped further misery onto the Foxes as he managed a brace and an assist . Neither team had anything to play for with Tottenham already achieving Champions League qualification and the then Craig Shakespeare Leicester already safe from relegation.
Overall Tottenham comfortably lead manager Claude Puel’ side, having beaten them 53 times to their 34 and drawing 21.
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