Leicester 1-1 Tottenham: Three things we learnt from draw

A major weakness

The first half illustrated a poor performance from the Foxes. A breakdown in communication, poor passes, a lack of cohesion, and truly abysmal midfield lack of control. Possession and progression are key pillars of football: how you win, retain, and utilise possession and progression determine how your players will be able to create or prevent chances.

In that half, the King Power side barely had the ball, barely took it forward, and instead played a game of last ditch defence, did little to win the ball (pressing was poorly timed and coordinated), and when we did have the ball, Leicester were wastefully giving it away in midfield or the final third. Possession and progression were incessantly ceded to Spurs. The weakness was in mentality.

Without that goal, the Foxes were pathetic. That was not football, it was a rout. Luckily, Mads Hermansen and Wilfred Ndidi kept Leicester City in the game long enough for a Vardy party to start, and the game to be flipped on its head when mentality and confidence came on our side. Steve Cooper will have to fix that weak mentality if he is to perform consistently at this level.